Mercat de Santa Caterina
A working neighbourhood food market in El Born under a spectacular undulating, multicoloured tiled roof (a modern landmark by architect […]
Barcelona
Paradiso
Barcelona’s most famous cocktail bar and a World’s 50 Best regular — entered through the fridge door of a pastrami
Dr. Stravinsky
An intimate, apothecary-styled cocktail bar in El Born where the drinks are built around house-made ferments, tinctures, oils and infusions
Boadas Cocktails
Barcelona’s oldest cocktail bar, open just off La Rambla since 1933 and founded by a bartender who trained at Havana’s
Collage Cocktail Bar
A cosy, art-filled cocktail bar in the Gothic Quarter with an eclectic, vintage-furnished interior and a seasonally changing menu of
La Boqueria
Barcelona’s most famous market — a riot of colour and aromas just off La Rambla, trading since the 13th century.
Passeig de Gràcia
Barcelona’s grandest boulevard and its luxury-shopping showpiece, lined with flagship stores of Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Prada — all
Hotel Regina
Why it matters: Hotel Regina belongs to Pulitzer Hotels, a certified B Corp that folds sustainability and social inclusion into how it runs. The group works with Barcelona charities such as Fundacio A
Eco Boutique Hostal Grau
Why it matters: Hostal Grau has been in the Grau family since the 1960s, and when the current generation renovated it they rebuilt it as a genuinely sustainable hotel rather than a greenwashed one. It
ILUNION Almirante
Why it matters: ILUNION Hotels is the hotel arm of Grupo Social ONCE, a Spanish social enterprise built around employing people with disabilities, and its special-employment-centre hotels report over