These are the 26 most beautiful restaurants in Barcelona

Flowers, chocolates and a gourmet dinner. We have not just revealed the recipe for a perfect date, since this combo is well known and is quite installed in our imaginary of must-haves to conquer someone.

Therefore, the closer we get to an important date, the more we obsess and obsess about finding the most beautiful restaurants in Barcelona to surprise our date or family, either celebrating years of company or to surprise on a first date.

Now many restaurants design a multisensory experience for diners, in addition to good food, you also enjoy a nice and cozy space.

If you want to have a special dinner, and take your date to a good (and beautiful) restaurant here we leave you the 25 most beautiful restaurants in Barcelona, where to fall in love through the stomach and the eyes:

Casa de Vivi, a restaurant where you will feel at home.

Luxury has never been at odds with warmth. And a good example of this is Fauna, the restaurant-lounge of the Kimpton Vividora Hotel. The Mediterranean cuisine of Fauna, with strong Catalan roots, evokes the cuisine that our parents cook at home on weekends but at the height of a 5-star hotel like the Kimpton in the heart of the Gotic.

The atmosphere in the lounge, because of the decoration and the restaurant’s own programming, is that there is always something going on. Whether it’s a live-painting, a dj’s session or all at once, it always feels like a dynamic space. Like the living room of any home.

📍 Carrer del Duc, 15

Arcano Restaurant

A traditional beauty, wood and stone, Barcelona’s subsoil: that’s Arcano, a hidden treasure in plain sight in the Born. This haute cuisine restaurant is pure history of the neighborhood. When we enter here, we travel back in time to the past of Mercaders street. It is an old 17th century stables with stone walls, medieval arches and furniture that does not break the aesthetics: it respects, honors and renews it.

In the menu of Arcano Restaurant the grilled cuisine and high quality ingredients stand out. We will find dishes based on very good products cooked and prepared with innovative and surprising touches. For example, the Argentinean Angus sirloin steak, the Iberian feather with peanut cream and smoked sweet potato with rosemary aroma, the juicy Argentinean beef entrecote or the grilled lamb French rack (French rack of lamb with sweet vegetables). You can opt for a tasting menu if you want to taste the essence of this restaurant that is pure history of the city.

Not in vain, the restaurant has created “The Hidden Jewels of the Born”. an immersive experience that uncovers those historical secrets hidden in the neighborhood and that, of course, culminates seated around a table to enjoy an exclusive culinary experience at Restaurante Arcano.

📍 Carrer dels Mercaders, 10 (Ciutat Vella)

a restaurant, in the spectacular Hotel Neri Relais&Chateaux

Undoubtedly, one of our essentials to surprise on a first date but also to enjoy a good evening with family or friends. It is the only restaurant located in the Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, a corner whose charm is unmistakable.

The restaurant is intimate, cozy and, above all, pure design. But it is also lively, casual and creative cuisine by chef Alain Guiard. Not to be missed: the crunchy potato taco with red shrimp, lime, Espelette pepper and nori seaweed (spectacular!), the crispy scallop coca, bacon, artichokes and seasonal mushrooms or the carpaccio of langoustine, lime, lemon, tarragon and Morruda olive oil. Also, their version of cheesecake.

📍 Plaça de Sant Felip Neri

Nobu, enjoy panoramic views of the city.

It is located on the 23rd floor of the Hotel Nobu and offers panoramic views of the city and the sea. For that alone it deserves to be on this list. But there is more, of course. It is inspired by the classic gastronomy of Tokyo and the trips that its chef, Nobu, made in South America. The end result is an extensive menu that includes innovative dishes and bold cocktails. Some of the most popular are yellowtail sashimi with jalapeños and black cod with miso.

It is possible to dine at the sushi bar and in the dining room, depending on the diner’s preferences. Both spaces are worthy of admiration.

📍 Av. de Roma, 2

Jacqueline,‘L‘artde vivre‘ in the center of Barcelona

Rockwell Group architects (the same ones behind Nobu’s spaces) are responsible for the glamorous and exotic display of Jaqueline’s three floors. Spread over its three levels, Jacqueline has different spaces of very different character (and impressive design and décor).

They are: The Dining Room, where inspired by Catalan modernism, Jacqueline unites the classic and the modern. In her Padded Room (which we can see in the photo) you will feel wrapped in a Turkish carpet while tasting her signature cocktails. Omakase Bar brings you traditional Japanese food served at the bar and exclusively for only six diners per session.

As a special mention , The Dinner Club programs weekly shows and concerts of emerging talent in the city and finally, Jacqueline Barcelona could not champion the ‘L’art de vivre’ of Barcelona without having a clandestine Champagne Bar.

📍Carrer d’Enric Granados, 66

Contraban, discretion and intimacy in the Gothic Quarter

In a hidden corner in the Barrio Gòtic, the Wittmore Hotel hides a treasure worthy of all anniversaries, proposals of marriage and intimate celebrations. The Contraban Restaurant has an inner courtyard where intimacy (and very enjoyable if the weather is nice), dark wood and dim and discreet light are the main features.

At the head of the restaurant is Alain Guiard, a chef who moves with talented comfort between creative cuisine and homemade comfort.

📍 Riudarenes, 7

Salvaje, a Japanese restaurant with a show

Exotic decor, fusion food and show. This is the experience designed to make you want to stay all night in the place where you came just for dinner.

The vegetation, wood, white sculptures, furniture that mixes styles among which stand out the rustic and African… are the protagonists of a groundbreaking interior design thought to the smallest detail to conquer you by all the senses.

📍 Carrer d’Enric Granados, 86

Mana 75, feng sui and the high seas

The style of this restaurant is very well defined. It recreates the old picnic areas of Barceloneta, mixing elements of wood and metal. With subdued colors and details focused on nostalgia, they manage to create the ideal atmosphere to enjoy a meal in one of the most beautiful dining rooms in Barcelona.

Maná 75 has become more than just a paella restaurant thanks to its interior design, where in addition to living a gastronomic experience, you will feel how the restaurant is designed in tune with the feng sui philosophy (and I’m not kidding).

📍 Pg. de Joan de Borbó, 101

Enjoy La Textil ‘s tasting menu at its cypress bar.

Although what stands out the most about La Textil is its incredible tasting menu designed to not waste anything from the brewing process of their home brew to their sauces, the interior design deserves a special mention.

If you decide to enjoy the tasting menu, you’ll do so at a cypress bar that surrounds the kitchen, open to the eyes of all the diners in the room. The lights, dim enough to create an intimate ambience (but not too dim to be able to see what you are eating) help to establish an atmosphere that places this restaurant in the top of the most beautiful in Barcelona.

📍 Carrer de Casp, 33B

Público Taberna

One of the best salads we have tasted lately is served in Público Taberna, a restaurant of Enric Granados that raises the average of the area, somewhat low, and serves tapas with a high level product and in an environment where everything is taken care of.

From an entrance where the fish is exposed to buy it by weight , a bar with a giant wall where the wines are exposed and sold at cost price and where only the corkage is charged and a dining room at the back that surrounds a kitchen that is somewhat lower, where you can see the chefs preparing what we will eat, a real luxury.

📍C. d’Enric Granados, 30, L’Eixample

Eat in a tableware worthy of Philip II in the Rilke Restaurant.

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What would it be like to eat in a Versailles salon? That’s the question that Rilke Barcelona has brought to the 21st century with its dining room full of red velvet and wallpaper. In addition, the restaurant offers a menu based on simplicity signed by chefs Rafa Peña and Jaime Tejedor.

📍 Carrer de Mallorca, 275

Live a cosmopolitan experience at the Gatsby Restaurant.

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Fitzgerald could have described this place perfectly in his novel, as this dining room breathes pure ‘Little party never killed nobody’ spirit. Dinner and live show in one of the most famous (and beautiful) venues in Barcelona.

📍 Carrer Tuset, 19

Alkimia, an award-winning restaurant for its interior design.

That Alkimia is a beautiful place is not just us saying it; also the International Design Awards, the British ‘Oscars’ of interior design, which recognized this restaurant in Sant Antoni as the best design restaurant SBID 2017. The former Moritz brewery houses this Michelin star, a space rehabilitated by the prestigious architect Jean Nouvel.

📍 Ronda de Sant Antoni, 41

Fismuler, Barcelona’s most famous escalope (to share).

The Madrid restaurant Fismuler quickly made some of its iconic dishes fashionable despite having played with the pandemic against the tide from the beginning. Its omelette, its Viennese escalope with egg and truffle or its cheesecake are some of the great stars of its menu.

📍 Carrer del Rec Comtal, 17

The surrealist restaurant Gala

The Gala restaurant space has been designed by Quintana Partners and envelops us in an artistic atmosphere that makes us travel to the Barcelona of the early twentieth century. A contemporary reinterpretation inspired by nature, form, color and joy. In it we find red velvet armchairs and armchairs, walls where a clean blue sky is drawn and mirrors that contribute to the game between reality and fantasy.

And beyond its aesthetic proposal, its open omelette with prawns, its Santa Pau beans with baby squid, the fricandó croquette or the rostit de festa major cannelloni stand out.

📍 Carrer de Provença, 286

Belbo, a collection restaurant

The Belbo group has six restaurants (Fasto, Dos Besos, Luma, Candela, Piropo and Terrenal), all of them “with the determination of a gallery owner, as a collection” with “urban greenery and aromas of Mediterranean cuisines”, as they explain.

📍 Various locations

Libertine, signature cocktails amidst velvet

Although it has a restaurant, perhaps the highlight of Libertine is its cocktail bar. The atmosphere in the afternoon is occupied by customers drinking coffee or working on their computers, and as the evening progresses, the drinks, cocktails and the usual live music sessions begin to flow.

📍 Hotel Casa Bonay (Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 700)

Croma by Flash: dining in the spotlight

It is the brother of Flash Flash, the most famous tortillería in Barcelona. Both are projects of the famous photographer Leopoldo Pomés. And how could it be otherwise, Croma also delights with omelets in a menu that is updated with three new recipes: quinoa, made with braised avocado; arugula, with tomatoes and basil, and the Esquirol, with pine nuts, corn, bacon and raisins, which is a nod to the famous Esquirol rice from Flash Flash.

In addition, since May the menu has a new section of dishes to nibble on, such as provolone, Russian salad (made with a good tuna base), squid rings and Andalusian-style eggplants with feta cheese and honey.

📍 Av. Diagonal, 640

An aesthetic reference in Barcelona, Il Giardinetto

The work of architects Alfonso Milà and Federico Correa, Il Giardinetto won the FAD Interior Design Award in 1974. And although many years have passed since then, the place is still an aesthetic reference in the city. In fact, it was again a finalist in the same awards in 2013. As its name suggests,green predominates.

📍 Carrer de la Granada del Penedès, 28

The most sophisticated restaurant in the city, El Japonés.

El Japonés wears the air of a Japanese tavern with a sophisticated and minimalist air. Wooden surfaces abound and a huge bar where they prepare the sushi you will eat, as if you were in an izakaya.

📍 Passatge de la Concepció, 5

Feel at home in Ikibana

Another Japanese restaurant with crescent-shaped corner benches that are perfect for eating in a corner and a sort of swarm on the ceiling are the most notable elements of this place where the tables are not arranged in a standard way, nor is its circular bar.

📍 Carrer del Dr. Fleming, 11

Feroz, plants and dim lighting

Grup Olivé, responsible for such nice restaurants as L’Olivé, Paco Meralgo or Cañete, among others, is behind Feroz, where the focus is on classics: rice, salads, fish and meat. In the decoration, a lot of indoor plants and a much more intimate atmosphere with low light and live music sessions.

📍 Carrer de Tuset, 27

Flax and Kale passage

Flax and Kale is one of those well-known chains in Barcelona, one of the standard bearers of the broad spectrum of healthy flexitarian food where, yes, all the dishes are always framed in a photo. There are several places in the city, but none like Passage, a real gem in the Borne.

Hidden in the Passatge de les Manufactures, the place stretches along a space between industrial and intimate, with a neat decoration and small booths made with old cabins that give all the intimacy necessary for a pleasant dinner. A ten in aesthetics that will put the date uphill as soon as you set foot on the premises.

📍 Pasaje de las Manufacturas. Main entrance: Sant Pere Més Alt 31-33

El Nacional, one of the most beautiful restaurants in Barcelona.

Its high ceilings (a modernist building from 1889) and its division into different restaurants gives the sensation of a gastronomic market with a super-sophisticated air. Market air despite its sophistication, which makes it one of the most beautiful restaurants in Barcelona.

As for the cuisine, the dishes of all the life: Catalan cuisine, meats, fish.

📍 Passeig de Gràcia, 24 Bis

China Crown

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A restaurant located in Gaudí’s first residential building in Barcelona is off to a good start. If we add that the restaurant seeks to reproduce the pompous dining rooms of imperial China (and serve its food as well), the splendor is assured.

And that is China Crown, a luxury Chinese food restaurant, with beautiful reserved areas, decoration of vases and lacquered wood and a cuisine of kings, with dim sums and fish that make the experience a privilege.

📍C/ de Casp, 48, L’Eixample

Louro: the last secret of Las Ramblas

Hidden in a second floor of Las Ramblas, away from the glances, and in the historic Casa Galicia of Barcelona, Louro is a gastronomic jewel that rescues the Galician essence in the heart of Barcelona. Here they wanted to recover the traditional Galician cuisine, but with a renewed touch: fresh seafood, caldeiradas, rice dishes and dishes to remember as the smoked sardine toast with Cebreiro cheese or octopus, all with a taste of home and adjusted prices.

But apart from the food, the place is beautiful. It is in the Centro Galego de Barcelona, a historic place that was the residence of Joan Güell and from which he saw the construction of the Palau Güell de Nou de la Rambla, whose rear facade can be seen from the restaurant and that, at the time, had a connection through a passageway that starts right next to the tables of one of the rooms of Louro. If to this we add a reform made with an incredible taste, the place is unbeatable to eat in a nice place and can not miss on this list.

📍 Rambla de los Capuchinos, 37, Principal, 08002 Barcelona

Muy Buenas

Muy Buenas is a jewel of the Raval. A modernist restaurant with the premises intact and that the Grup Confiteria has made an effort to turn into a place of great traditional Catalan food, but always with that touch of its own, of careful cooking. Here you can try the truita amb suc or the clotxa del delta, Catalan dishes that are very difficult to find in Barcelona, while you try their good selection of wines. To finish, a cocktail in its imposing marble bar, a relic in itself. A romantic (and gastronomic) plan guaranteed.

📍Carrer del Carme, 63, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona