That brunch has come to occupy a place of reference in the lives of Barcelona’s people is beyond 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 dedicating a lot of time to it -a good time reading the newspaper while having a coffee and a sweet – than with gorging oneself on sweet food, brunch has come to fill the gap of people who want everything first thing in the morning: time for leftovers and abundant, tasty food.
If the morphological origin of breakfast is as humble as des 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 the lazy Sunday breakfasts into something that goes far beyond a simple breakfast.
OMA Bistró, the safe brunch
A sure bet in the brunch area. In the heart of Eixample Esquerra, close to many other brunch restaurants, looking closely to Sant Antoni, Oma Bistró has a classic brunch menu and comfortable sofas to enjoy it calmly.
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 at OMA is a must. Add specialty coffee and craft beers and it’s all said and done. Now, in addition, they have opened a new place, 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 Mediterranean flavors combined with the essentials of Basque cuisine predominate. In this 2024, the cocktail offer that accompanies the brunch has 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 portion of hot cuisine prepared on the spot and served in a pass – in which dishes typical of Basque cuisine stand out – and, to finish, 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, queues in the Poblenou area
With so many brunch places fighting for the attention of hungry morning zombies, upstart locals 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 it with the Pancake Choco Ball, a chocolate ball that you break with a hammer or with 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 an essential point that accumulates queues of people in the heart of 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, including classics such as 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 can sample exquisite and varied sweet and savory dishes at Veraz, accompanied by unlimited cava and mimosas. 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 house 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 women in flouncy dresses and men with morning coat and bowler hat had breakfast with all the time in the gardens of a French palace with ornate decor.
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, the shakshuka, that vegetable and egg stew. If you add their endless list of homemade cakes and their latest novelty, the donudicts, salted 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 makes its fortune.
Specialty coffee, of course, eggs, avocado and everything you ask of this type of offer and a surprise, the Ploughman’s, an assortment of sausages and Australian cheeses. Here we come 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
Trópico, Latin breakfast
Their menu is a “around the world through the taste of the tropics” and that makes them offer one of the best brunch in Barcelona. Basically because they have options that are out of the ordinary. Their 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
El 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 gastronomic experience in one of the most outstanding places in the city.
📍 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, only a great breakfast could come out. 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 this fame is justified. They don’t offer the typical brunch of eggs with juice and muffin. No way. Their cuisine and ideas are very cosmopolitan, so your late breakfast can include fried green tomatoes or Israeli couscous. All these delicacies can be tasted at their 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 local is international: it is run by an Englishwoman and an Australian. Therefore, 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 think 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 gourmet corner, as their brunches have a Galician and Basque touch. Because going for brunch is not bad, but going for breakfast is even better, and where there’s a good omelette, 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 omelettes, but their brunch menu also includes pastries and sandwiches with quality sausages.
📍 Carrer Diputació, 321
Waffle Barcelona
If you’re more of a waffleperson , you can try a tasty and healthy brunch with options for all tastes at Waffle Barcelona. Both sweet and savory delights await you here with the Veggie Brunch, Pancake Brunch, Lovely Brunch and Waffle Brunch.
📍 Carrer de Viladomat, 215
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Granja Petitbo, el brunch català
We also include it in our list of the best places to snack in Barcelona for its famous carrot cake and its triple identity of bar-cafeteria-vermuteria. Being the place with the most vintage and cute decoration of the area, it could not miss a good brunch to accompany the reading of magazines and newspapers that are available to the customer.
The brunch consists of a coffee or tea, a natural fruit juice and dishes such as pancakes with chocolate to choose from, 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 queues.
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.
Their queues on the narrow Carrer Gignàs are part of the usual landscape of the area, and their pancakes, bagels, doughnuts 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, le chicx de enfrente
And if Milk is the sun, Benedict is the moon, right next door, just a few meters away, Benedict has emerged as another of the stars of brunch in the Gothic Quarter. 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 in various other ways), coffee, juices or mimosa and some sweet dessert (pancakes or yogurt). A complete menu to recover in the most brunchy 20 meters of the city.
📍 Carrer d’en Gignàs, 23
Breakfast, wake up with mac’n’cheese, yes we are.
The party of the United States. The endless menu of the Desayunería takes the concept of breakfast to the limit, to turn the place into an American diner where you can order a french toast 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 it’s a holiday, so who cares.
📍 C. del Comte Borrell, 75 – Carrer del Comte d’Urgell, 260
Elsa and Fred, breakfasts by couple
A place whose brunch is only served on weekends at noon and yet has become a classic has to have something. Elsa and Fred lives up to its name, filling up during the 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 toast or avocado, Mexican eggs, English breakfast and a selection of local tapas.
📍 Carrer del Rec Comtal, 11
Eixampeling, the most famous brunch donuts in town.
We met Eixampeling because in their new store in Borne they make doughnuts that jump out from the window: covered and filled, giant and sweet, their doughnuts have joined in their own right to that golden mile of sweets that 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 breakfast (eye the Quack Efron, with duck confit and poached eggs) and their juices and smoothies (eye the peanut butter) the perfect complements to fly away (and not eat again until the next day).
📍 C/ de la Diputació, 158
Tasseta Verda, Peruvian brunch
We are here to discover secrets, and this is one of them. Tasseta Verde is a little-known locale 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 their recipes only 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 have for breakfast
Named after an old parking lot whose owner, Baldomero, was a well-known bon vivant who owned one of the first Mercedes in the city, Baldomero is a refuge 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 from which 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 cuisine, with lots of vegetables 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. Any Barcelonian has ever walked past it on a stroll along the beach and thought what it must be like to stay in that tower overlooking the sea. Now, whoever has the 70 euros with a drink (or 90 euros with open bar) that is worth the new brunch at The Pantry, the hotel’s new bar, will be able to experience, at least for a few hours, the sensation.
Every Sunday, starting at 1 pm, there will be El Vermut, a joint proposal between the Arts Garden, the hotel’s open-air 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
The Egg Lab
The Egg Lab opened its third location in the heart of the Born, confirming its success in the city. With dishes such as Kimchi Pancakes and Matcha Roll, a retro-futuristic design and a menu focused on fresh products from local suppliers , The Egg Lab is one of the city’s leading brunch spots.
📍 The Egg Lab Bruc(Calle Bruc, 80) – The Egg Lab Born (Calle Lluís el Piadós, 2) – The Egg Lab Sepúlveda (Calle Sepúlveda, 80, local 2)