Guidebook for Barcelona
Essentials
The closest supermarket to your flat: 3 doors away!
18 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Caprabo Provença
385 C/ de ProvençaThe closest supermarket to your flat: 3 doors away!
2nd closest supermarket (after Caprabo) - 1min away from home.
21 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Consum Sociedad Cooperativa Valenciana
2nd closest supermarket (after Caprabo) - 1min away from home.
Calle Nàpols, 261
Butcher's
Drinks & Nightlife
Because we love the owners, service and music. Plus, when everything else in the area is closed they are usually still open :)
12 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
CHILL Bar Barcelona
424 C/ de ProvençaBecause we love the owners, service and music. Plus, when everything else in the area is closed they are usually still open :)
Restaurant Tossa Barcelona
291 C. de NàpolsGood tapas near home.
Food Scene
Restaurant Diagonal Can Soteras
Avinguda DiagonalGood food, great service, decent prices
Typical Spanish food (raciones and tapas), local prices (as oposed to many other touristy places).
31 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Morrysom
162 Carrer de GironaTypical Spanish food (raciones and tapas), local prices (as oposed to many other touristy places).
The closest Spanish tapas and raciones bar/restaurant in the area, frienly staff, with a guitar player ocasionally
21 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Restaurant Los Bellota
298 Carrer de la MarinaThe closest Spanish tapas and raciones bar/restaurant in the area, frienly staff, with a guitar player ocasionally
Elegant restaurant, very close to home
19 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Restaurant La Cúpula
255 Carrer de SicíliaElegant restaurant, very close to home
Best Mexican food in town (according to our Mexican friends)
46 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
La taqueria
5 Passatge de FontBest Mexican food in town (according to our Mexican friends)
Charming restaurant between house and Gaudi's buildings. Mediterranean cuisine with a touch of signature cuisine, with “tapas”. Live jazz on Thursdays & Fridays from 22:30 or 23h.
24 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Josephine Barcelona
147 Carrer de Pau ClarisCharming restaurant between house and Gaudi's buildings. Mediterranean cuisine with a touch of signature cuisine, with “tapas”. Live jazz on Thursdays & Fridays from 22:30 or 23h.
Charming French bistro serving French cuisine with local and international flavors, relaxing atmoshpere, with a warm and comfortable design. Mid-way from home to Plaza Catalunya.
23 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Cafe EMMA
Charming French bistro serving French cuisine with local and international flavors, relaxing atmoshpere, with a warm and comfortable design. Mid-way from home to Plaza Catalunya.
Fresh seafood & fish. Not your typical restaurant: you pick what you'd like just like on the market (not from the menu, but from the fish&seafood stand in front of you) - & they bring it to your table
147 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
La Paradeta Sagrada Família
18 Passatge de SimóFresh seafood & fish. Not your typical restaurant: you pick what you'd like just like on the market (not from the menu, but from the fish&seafood stand in front of you) - & they bring it to your table
A small bakery with great croissants. There is closer location of La Boulangerie on 362 Avinguda Diagonal, but the one on C/ Rosellò is nicer.
20 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
La Boulangerie
171 C/ de BailènA small bakery with great croissants. There is closer location of La Boulangerie on 362 Avinguda Diagonal, but the one on C/ Rosellò is nicer.
Starbucks
19 Plaça Sagrada FamíliaFor those who miss Starbucks
Quimet & Quimet
25 Carrer del Poeta CabanyesPinchos
Non-stop kitchen, lively atomosphere, good food, modernist interiors....
91 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Bar El Velódromo
213 Carrer de MuntanerNon-stop kitchen, lively atomosphere, good food, modernist interiors....
Bar Mundial
1 Plaça de Sant Agustí VellTapas
Tradtional food, quilty products fresh from the market next door, great service, somewhat secret (looks like a shop at first), having to walk through kitchen to get to your table.... Special place :)
9 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Can Ravell
313 Carrer d'AragóTradtional food, quilty products fresh from the market next door, great service, somewhat secret (looks like a shop at first), having to walk through kitchen to get to your table.... Special place :)
Quality products, great cusine, mix of traditional and more elaborate cuisine, variety
17 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Els Tres Porquets
165 Rambla del PoblenouQuality products, great cusine, mix of traditional and more elaborate cuisine, variety
A multi-space restauran with history. This industrial buidling was a theter, a dye facotry, car dealership and garage. It's emblematic, and had a restauran, a tapas bar, fish restauran, wine bar, coctail bar, etc tec... great food!
462 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
El Nacional
24 Bis Pg. de GràciaA multi-space restauran with history. This industrial buidling was a theter, a dye facotry, car dealership and garage. It's emblematic, and had a restauran, a tapas bar, fish restauran, wine bar, coctail bar, etc tec... great food!
great fsh and sea food restaurant, good service, and perfect location on the sea...
34 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
El Cangrejo Loco
115 Carrer d'Aribaugreat fsh and sea food restaurant, good service, and perfect location on the sea...
Restaurante Freixa Tradició
22 Carrer de Sant EliesTickets
164 Av. del Paral·lelShopping
Goofretti Glories
208 Avinguda DiagonalThe closest shopping center
Passieg de Gracias is a shopping street - from Tiffany's to H&M, you can find anything here.
982 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Passeig de Gracia
Passeig de GràciaPassieg de Gracias is a shopping street - from Tiffany's to H&M, you can find anything here.
One of the city's trendiest streets, with many international fashion shops, and is lined with lime trees, pedestrian area and cafés with patios.
165 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Rambla de Catalunya
Rambla de CatalunyaOne of the city's trendiest streets, with many international fashion shops, and is lined with lime trees, pedestrian area and cafés with patios.
Sightseeing
The most imoprtant (and the closest) tourist attraction - Gaudí's amazing masterpiece. Even though not finished yet, definitivelly worth going inside (we were told so by our other guests)!
3229 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
La Sagrada Cerveseria
16 Plaça Sagrada FamíliaThe most imoprtant (and the closest) tourist attraction - Gaudí's amazing masterpiece. Even though not finished yet, definitivelly worth going inside (we were told so by our other guests)!
Casa Milà
92 Pg. de GràciaA must see - one of Gaudís masterpieces
Casa Batlló
43 Pg. de GràciaA must see - Gaudís famous masterpiece
European largest Art Nouveau Site, a city within the city (Lluís Domènech i Montaner). Declared a Historic Artistic Monument, and recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
454 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
167 Carrer de Sant QuintíEuropean largest Art Nouveau Site, a city within the city (Lluís Domènech i Montaner). Declared a Historic Artistic Monument, and recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona is the Catalan capital’s centre devoted to the arts of the object and design. Result of merging 4 museums: Graphic Art, Decorative arts, Ceramics, Textiles & Clothing.
133 Recomendado por los habitantes de la zona
El Museo del Diseño de Barcelona
37-38 Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes,Museu del Disseny de Barcelona is the Catalan capital’s centre devoted to the arts of the object and design. Result of merging 4 museums: Graphic Art, Decorative arts, Ceramics, Textiles & Clothing.
Everything Else
Parque Güell
A must see - Gaudi's unique park!