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That brunch has come to occupy a place of reference in the lives of the people of Barcelona there is no doubt. From being an unknown word a few years ago to not being able to define hangover Sundays in any other way.
In a gastronomic culture like ours, where the idea of having breakfast had more to do with devoting a lot of time -a good time reading the newspaper while having a cup of coffee and a sweet– brunch has come to fill the gap of people who want it all first thing in the morning: time for leftovers, and delicious and abundant food.
If the morphological Inception of breakfast is as humble as de-fasting, that is, to stop fasting, that of brunch is ambitious from the start: breakfast and lunch, the fusion of breakfast and lunch. Coming from England, and popularized in the United States, brunch has landed in Barcelona to stay and turn lazy Sunday breakfasts into something that goes far beyond a simple breakfast.
OMA Bistró, the safe brunch
A no-fail bet in the brunch Zone. In the heart of the Eixample Esquerra, close to many other bruncherias, looking closely at the Sant Antoni oma Bistró has a classic brunch menu and comfortable sofas to enjoy it at leisure.
Eggs benedict, bagel, shakshuka, pancakes, pulled pork, pastrami… Its menu full of anglicism is the ABC of classic brunch (perhaps, at this point, also traditional), so coming to breakfast to OMA can’t be faulted. Add specialty coffee and craft beers and it’s all said and done. Now, in addition, they have opened a new location, so even less excuses.
carrer Amigó, 18 / Carrer Consell de Cent, 227
Yummy Sundays, the brunch of Martín Berasategui
On the first and third Sunday of each month, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., the Glasss Restaurant at the Monument Hotel Barcelona offers a gastronomic proposal where Mediterráneo flavors combined with the essentials of Basque cuisine predominate. This 2024, the cocktail offerings accompanying brunch have included the Monument Mary, Paradiso’s version of the classic Bloody Mary cocktail.
This select brunch has a wide range of dishes, including starters and cheeses, cold dishes in individual presentations, a part of hot cuisine prepared at the time and served in pass -in which stand out dishes from the Basque cuisine- and, finally, a delicious dessert buffet. In addition, this offer is accompanied by an open bar of cocktails served on the spot.
📍 Passeig de Gracia 75, 6th Floor
Gabby’s Brunch, tails in Poblenou
With so many brunch spots fighting for the attention of hungry morning zombies, upstart brunch spots have to get that wow effect, that attention-grabbing poducto that propels the place up the recommendation lists (and Instagram feed).
Gabby’s Brunch has achieved this with the Pancake Choco Ball, a chocolate ball that you break with a hammer, or the Potion d’Amour, pancakes with chocolate and yogurt sauce. They are not the only ones, but they are some of the dishes that explain why this relatively new place has already become a must-visit spot that accumulates queues of people at full Poblenou.
📍 C/ de Ramon Turró, 93
Brunch & Cake, coffee & sweets
This café and store specializing in a variety of pastries is a marvel. On their menu you can find everything from quinoa salad to rustic chicken sandwich to classics like eggs benedict, bacon or yogurt. The fact that they use organic products and the dishes are homemade makes it one of the best places in Barcelona to have a brunch or a proper breakfast.
📍 Enric Granados 145
The Barcelona EDITION, live music and signature cocktails
This boutique hotel offers a brunch where sophistication merges with innovative cuisine and live entertainment. You will be able to taste exquisite and varied sweet and savory dishes at Veraz, accompanied by unlimited cava and mimosas. And afterwards, head to The Roof to enjoy a signature cocktail with panoramic views of Barcelona.
📍 Avinguda de Francesc Cambó, 14
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Ugot, cake or shakshuka, that is the question
Victorian home decor and instagram diva cakes. Ugot (cake, in Hebrew), is a paradise in the Eixample that makes us forget that we live in the 21st century and takes us back to a pre-modern era where aristocratic Mujeres with frilly dresses and men with morning coat and bowler hat had breakfast with all the time in the gardens of a French palace with ornate decoration.
In Ugot they have up to five recipes for eggs benedict and as many others, of course, of the Israeli dish that is all the rage, shakshuka, that vegetable and egg stew. If you add their endless list of homemade cakes and their latest novelty, the donudicts, salty artisan donuts filled with all kinds of fantasy, the brunch at this place is all vice.
📍 Viladomat 138
Federal Café, the coziest
In one of the most curious passages of the city in the Gothic Quarter, but also in Poblenou and in the ultra hipster Parlament Street (let’s not forget that we are talking about brunch) an Italian brunch restaurant is making a fortune.
Specialty coffee, of course, eggs, avocado and everything you would ask of such an offering and a surprise, Ploughman’s, an assortment of Australian cold cuts and cheeses. We come here to eat, but also to relax, since all its premises combine good light, good atmosphere and a good selection of music.
📍P assatge de la Pau,11 / Carrer del Parlament, 39 / Carrer del Taulat, 109
Tropico, Latin breakfast
Their menu is a “around the world through the taste of the tropics” and that makes them offer one of the best brunches in Barcelona. Basically because they have options that are out of the ordinary. Its Tropical Brunch menu includes typical products from the other side of the Atlantic such as arepas with perico, huevos rancheros with chipotle, mango lassi with cardamom or fresh watermelon water with coconut water. An original and fun option.
Carrer Marqués de Barbera, 24
The Palau del Mar, next to Port Vell
You can enjoy an exclusive brunch at Port Bay Coffee, located next to Port Vell, where you will find an irresistible selection of sweet and savory dishes accompanied by a refreshing mimosa, juice or coffee. Experience a unique dining experience in one of the city’smost outstanding locations.
📍 Plaça de Pau Vila, 1
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Fat Schmucks, breakfast for fat (and proud) people
From the authors of the best nights, and therefore the worst hangovers, could only come a great breakfast. Fat Schmucks was opened by the creators of Two Schmucks (One of the three best cocktail bars in the world whose name literally means “two assholes” in English) when they had their construction site. The result, crazy snacks like the Vietnamese bahn mi, their tacos or their duck pancake and, of course, their eggs benedict.
And of course, great cocktails since, let’s not forget, the original brunch is accompanied by a good margarita.
📍 Plaça d’Emili Vendrell, s/n.
Picnic, one of the classics
It is one of the best known in Barcelona and said fame is justified. They do not offer the typical brunch of eggs with juice and muffin. No way. Their cuisine and ideas are very cosmopolitan, so your late breakfast may include fried Verde tomatoes or Israeli couscous. All these delicacies can be tasted in its long bar.
📍 Carrer Comerç 1
Caravelle, the elevated brunch
It is an option for the most hipsters in Barcelona, whatever their origin (because there is always an international atmosphere). The restaurant is internationally owned: it is run by an Englishwoman and an Australian. With which, their food has gastronomic touches of both places and with recipes somewhat more elaborate than average, but we recommend that you do not stay without trying the sweet option of brunch, because their homemade pastries are exquisite.
📍 Carrer Pintor Fortuny, 31
Teresa Carles, the vegetarian option
At Barcelona Secreta we thought of everything, so we also include a vegetarian brunch for those who choose this option (as long as they include eggs in their diet). They have both sweet and savory options and both are worthy of pleasing even the most hardened carnivore.
📍 Carrer Jovellanos, 2
Norte, brunch is also made at home
They couldn’t have chosen a better name for this mini gourmetcorner, as their brunches have a Galician and Basque flair. Because going for brunch is not bad, but going for breakfast is even better, and where there’s a good omelet, there’s no pancake.
Norte was born from the (good) idea of three friends and manages to offer dishes of 10. The best are their scrambled eggs, poached eggs and omelets, but their brunch menu also includes pastries and sandwiches with quality cold meats.
📍 Carrer Diputació, 321
Waffle Barcelona
If you are more of a waffle person, you can try a tasty and healthy brunch with options for all tastes at Waffle Barcelona. Both sweet and savory delights await you here at with the Veggie Brunch, Pancake Brunch, Lovely Brunch and Waffle Brunch.
carrer de Viladomat, 215
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Granja Petitbo, the Catalan brunch
We also include it in our list of the best places to have a snack in Barcelona for its famous carrot cake and its triple identity of bar-cafeteria-vermuteria. Being the place with the most vintage and cuqui decor in the Zone, you could not miss a good brunch to accompany the reading of magazines and newspapers that are available to the customer.
The brunch consists of coffee or tea, natural fruit juice and dishes such as pancakes with chocolate, poached eggs with ham or flute with sausage. Whether you are sweet or savory, you have a choice.
📍 Passeig de Sant Joan, 82
Milk, a pioneer that still has tails
It was one of the first places to include brunch in their menu, so they are already great experts in late breakfasts. They have English options (with bacon, egg and even beans), American (even with eggs) or varieties that include milkshakes and smoothies.
Its queues on the narrow Gignàs street are part of the usual landscape of the area, and its pancakes, bagels, donuts and bloody marys are the stars that the English community turns to when looking for what Milk calls arecovery brunch,
📍 Carrer d’en Gignàs, 21
Benedict, the chicx from across the street
And if Milk is the sun, Benedict is the moon, right next door, just a few meters away, well, next door, Benedict has emerged as another of the stars of brunch in the Gothic. At some point there was talk of rivalry between the two, and although it seems difficult that there is not, the truth is that there are bruncheros for everyone in the city.
The menus are similar, and in this case, for about 20 euros you have a closed brunch menu which includes eggs benedictine (and several other ways), coffee, juices or mimosa and some sweet dessert (pancakes or yogurts). Full menu to recover in the 20 most brunchy meters of the city.
📍 Carrer d’en Gignàs, 23
Breakfast, wake up with mac’n’cheese, yes we are
The party in the United States. The endless menu of La Desayunería takes the concept of breakfast to the limit, to turn the place into an American dinner where you can order a frenchtoast for breakfast, but where you can also start the day (or end it) with some mac’n’cheese or a po’boy, the spicy shrimp sandwich from New Orleans.
Their American breakfast section is an ode to lust (and grease), but it’s Sunday and we’re celebrating, so who cares.
📍 C. del Comte Borrell, 75 – Carrer del Comte d’Urgell, 260
Elsa and Fred, breakfasts for couples
A place whose brunch is only served on weekends at noon and yet has become a classic must have something. Elsa and Fred’s lives up to its name, filling up every week with couples dining in an intimate atmosphere. But on weekends its sunny terrace in the heart of Borne changes its menu to offer a traditional brunch menu but full of quality.
Eggs Benedict with salmon or pastrami, scrambled eggs with whatever you can imagine, sweet or avocado toast, Mexican eggs, english breakfast and a selection of local tapas.
📍 Carrer del Rec Comtal, 11
Eixampeling, the most famous brunch donuts in the city
We met Eixampeling because in their new store in Borne they make doughnuts that stand out from the window: covered and filled, gigantic and sweet, their doughnuts have become part of their own right that golden mile of sweet which is the old medieval quarter of the city.
But it turns out that this place is just the tip of the iceberg, a bakery from where the donuts travel to Eixampeling, the brunch place that is all the rage in the Eixample. With their fancy names (Pancake my eyes of you or Don’t go bacon and heart!) their dishes are bombs to rejuvenate at breakfast (watch out for the Quack Efron, with duck confit and poached eggs) and their juices and smoothies (watch out for the peanut butter one) the perfect complements to fly away (and not eat again until the next day).
📍 C/ de la Diputació, 158
Tasseta Verde, Peruvian Brunch
We are here to discover secrets, and this is one of them. Tasseta Verde is a little known place in the right Eixample that prepares what the world didn’t know it needed: Peruvian brunch. Anyone who knows the food of the Andean country knows that a ceviche raises a dead man, and that they have a dish called leche de tigre for a reason. So why save your recipes just for lunch or dinner?
At La Tasseta they make real Peruvian food: crispy pork sandwiches with pickled onions, tamales, milkshakes, Peruvian emapanadas (with chicken chili, for example) or stuffed potatoes… in short, the Peruvian recipe book at the service of your breakfast, enjoy.
rda. de Sant Pere, 23
Baldomero, all you can breakfast
Named after a former parking lot whose owner, Baldomero, was a well-known bon vivant who owned one of the first Mercedes in the city, Baldomero is a haven in the Eixample. They seek to be a country house in the middle of the city, and they do it, apart from the warm and cozy decoration, with homemade recipes that are presented in a buffet that you can use to build your lunch menu.
But on weekends, things change, and for 35 euros you have an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet where the same honest, vegetable-heavy cuisine and their long-fermented breads become the kings of breakfast.
📍 Pje. de Mercader, 16
The Pantry, 5-star vermouth with sea views
The Hotel Arts has always been one of the exponents of luxury in the city. Anyone from Barcelona has ever walked past it on a stroll along the beach and thought about what it must be like to stay in that tower above the sea. Now, whoever has the 70 euros with a drink (or 90 euros with open bar) that the new brunch at The Pantry, the hotel’s new bar, is worth, can experience, at least for a few hours, the sensation.
Every Sunday, starting at 1pm, there will be El Vermut, a joint proposal between the Arts Garden, the hotel’s outdoor space at the foot of Frank Gehry’s El Peix, and the new The Pantry, with a picnic style, to enjoy the sun and Mediterranean cuisine with a buffet of all kinds of starters to start lunch and main courses such as a rustido cannelloni, truffled rice or a scrambled cod with frites as main courses.
📍 Carrer de la Marina, 19-21