Flowers, chocolates y a gourmetdinner. 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.
That’s why, the closer some important date approaches, the more we become obsessed and obsessed with 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.
Many restaurants now design a multi-sensory experience for diners, in addition to good food, you also enjoy a beautiful and cozy space.
If you want to have a special dinner, and take your date to a good (and nice) restaurant here are the 21 most beautiful restaurants in Barcelona, where to fall in love through the stomach and the eyes:
Table Of Contents
- Casa de Vivi, a restaurant where you will feel at home
- a restaurant, in the spectacular Hotel Neri Relais&Chateaux
- Dinner with specialty punch at The Barcelona EDITION
- Nobu enjoy the panoramic views of the city
- Jacqueline,'L'art de vivre' in the center of Barcelona
- Contraban discretion and intimacy in the Gothic Quarter
- Wild a Japanese with a show
- Mana 75 feng sui and high seas
- Enjoy the tasting menu of Textile in its cypress bar
- He eats on a dinner service worthy of Philip II in the Rilke Restaurant
- Live the most cosmopolitan experience at the Gatsby Restaurant
- Alkimia an award-winning restaurant for its interior design
- Fismuler the most famous escalope (to share) in Barcelona
- The surrealist restaurant Gala
- Belbo a collector's restaurant
- Libertine signature cocktails amidst velvet
- Chroma by Flash: eating in the spotlight
- An aesthetic reference in Barcelona, Il Giardinetto
- The most sophisticated restaurant in town, The Japanese
- Make yourself at home in Ikibana
- Fierce plants and dim light
- Flax and Kale passage
- El Nacional one of the most beautiful restaurants in Barcelona
- China Crown
Casa de Vivi, a restaurant where you will feel at home
Luxury was never at odds with warmth. A good example of this is Fauna, the restaurant-lounge of the Kimpton Vividora Hotel. Fauna’s Mediterranean cuisine, 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 decor and the restaurant’s own Program, 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 house.
📍 Carrer del Duc, 15
a restaurant, in the spectacular Hotel Neri Relais&Chateaux
Undoubtedly, one of our must-haves 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 a 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, bacon, artichoke and seasonal mushroom coca or the carpaccio of langoustine, lime, lemon, tarragon and Morruda olive oil. Also, their version of cheesecake.
📍 Plaça de Sant Felip Neri
Dinner with specialty punch at The Barcelona EDITION
A microcosm within Barcelona. Gastronomy, drinks, entertainment… and an impeccable dinner service. His Bar Veraz is one of the most unique speakeasy bars in the city.
Then, Punch Room brings creativity and sophistication to the plan. Accessed by an iconic spiral staircase, this speakeasy bar offers local distillates and ingredients in its carefully curated menu of signature cocktails and punches, served in vintage silver punch bowls.
📍 Avinguda de Francesc Cambó, 14
Nobu enjoy the panoramic views of the city
It is located on the 23rd floor of the Nobu Hotel and offers panoramic views of the city and the sea. For that reason 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 travels of its chef, Nobu, in South America. The end result is an extensive menu featuring innovative dishes and bold cocktails. Some of the most appreciated 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‘art de 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 three levels, Jacqueline has different spaces of very different character (and impressive design and decoration).
They are: The Dining Room, where, inspired by Catalan modernism, Jacqueline unites the classic and the modern. In its Padded Room (which we can see in the photo) you will feel wrapped in a Turkish carpet while tasting its 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 trove worthy of all anniversaries, proposals and intimate celebrations. The Contraban Restaurant has an interior patio where intimacy (and very enjoyable if the weather is good), dark wood and dim and discreet lighting are the main features.
At the helm of the restaurant is Alain Guiard, a chef who moves with talented comfort between creative cuisine and home-style comfort.
📍 Riudarenes, 7
Wild a Japanese with a show
Exotic decoration, fusion food and show. This is the experience designed to make you want to stay all night at the place you came to just for dinner.
The vegetation, wood, white sculptures, furniture that mixes rustic and African styles… are the protagonists of a groundbreaking interior design designed down to the smallest detail to conquer you through all the senses.
📍 Carrer d’Enric Granados, 86
Mana 75 feng sui and high seas
The style of this restaurant is very well defined. 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 the tasting menu of Textile in its cypress bar
While what stands out most about La Textil is their incredible tap menu designed to waste nothing from their home brewing process to their sauces, the interior design deserves a special mention.
If you decide to enjoy the tasting menu, you will do so at a cypress bar that surrounds the kitchen, open to the eyes of all the diners in the dining room. The lights, dim enough to create an intimate atmosphere (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 restaurants in Barcelona.
📍 Carrer de Casp, 33B
He eats on a dinner service worthy of Philip II in the Rilke Restaurant
what would it be like to eat in a Versailles salon? That is the question that Rilke Barcelona wanted to bring into 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 the most cosmopolitan experience at the Gatsby Restaurant
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 the most famous escalope (to share) in Barcelona
The Madrid restaurant Fismuler quickly made some of its iconic dishes fashionable despite having played the pandemic against the tide from the beginning. Its omelette, Viennese escalope with egg and truffle or its cheesecake are some of the great stars of the menu that you can try here.
📍 Carrer del Rec Comtal, 17
The surrealist restaurant Gala
The space of gala Restaurant has been designed by Quintana Partners and surrounds us in an artistic atmosphere that makes us travel to the Barcelona of the early twentieth century. A contemporary reinterpretation inspired by nature, shape, color and joy. In it we find red velvet armchairs and armchairs, walls where a blue sky is drawn and clean 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 collector’s 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 Verde and aromas of Mediterráneo cuisines”, as they explain.
📍 Various locations
Libertine signature cocktails amidst velvet
Although they have 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 roll in.
📍 Hotel Casa Bonay (Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 700)
Chroma by Flash: eating in the spotlight
He is the brother of Flash Flash, the most famous tortilleria 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 Flash Flash Esquirol rice.
In addition, since May, the menu has a new section of dishes for snacks, such as provolone, Russian salad (made with a good tuna base), squid rings and Andalusian-style eggplant with feta cheese and honey.
📍 Av. Diagonal, 640
An aesthetic reference in Barcelona, Il Giardinetto
Designed by 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,verde predominates.
📍 Carrer de la Granada del Penedès, 28
The most sophisticated restaurant in town, The Japanese
El Japonés has the feel 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
Make yourself at home in Ikibana
Another Japanese crescent-shaped corner benches, perfect for eating close to and a sort of swarm on the ceiling are the most remarkable elements of this place where the tables are not arranged in a standard way, nor is its circular bar.
📍 Carrer del Dr. Fleming, 11
Fierce plants and dim light
Grup Olivé, responsible for such fine restaurants as L’Olivé, Paco Meralgo or Cañete, among others, is behind Feroz, where the focus is on classics: rice dishes, salads, fish and meat. In the decoration, lots of indoor plants and a much more intimate atmosphere with low lighting 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 the Passage, a real gem in the Borne.
Tucked away in the Passatge de les Manufactures, the place extends along a space between industrial and intimate, with a neat decoration and small reserved areas made with old booths that give all the intimacy necessary for a pleasant dinner. A ten in aesthetics that will make the appointment uphill as soon as you set foot in the venue.
📍 Manufactures Passage. Main ticket: 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 impression 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 a lifetime: Catalan cuisine, meats and fish.
📍 Passeig de Gràcia, 24 Bis
China Crown
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, an upscale Chinese food restaurant, with beautiful private rooms, vases and lacquered wood decor and a cuisine of kings, with dim sums and fish that make the experience a privilege.
📍C/ de Casp, 48, L’Eixample