If your plan is to eat out, because we do not always have time for the tupper, but you’re sick of having to spend a fortune, we have good news: eating well and cheaply in Barcelona, without going broke, is possible.
Because yes, we all deserve to be able to eat well and at a good price despite inflation. For this reason, we have selected the best cheap restaurants in Barcelona, ranging from Italian, Moroccan and Greek, to the typical neighborhood bar where you can order some good croquettes so you can fill your stomach to your heart’s content. So, the next time your stomach itches but you don’t want to scratch your pocket, we hope you’ll remember us.
Quick Greek: a Greek take-away, good and fast
If you’re craving kebab but don’t feel like finishing a whole one, Quick Greek is what you’re looking for. Cheap, fast and dirty food, but without going overboard.
The variety of the offer of this take away is brutal for its small size (in fact they also have a store): a spectacular hummus, a gyros (pork, chicken or mixed) from 3,50€ that is ambrosia for the hangover or a hyper falafel.
📍 Carrer General Álvarez de Castro, 5
Pizzeria da Nanni, pauthentic neapolitan pizza, individual size
This Neapolitan place is called Pizzeria da Nanni and it not only has the cheapest pizzas we have found in the city, but also holds a respectable position among the best in Barcelona.
Cooked in an oven in which only a couple of minutes pass, here you can enjoy a margherita pizza for only 3€. The pizzas are small, individual size, about four portions, and the prices go up depending on the ingredients, but the prices are still more than economical. For example, their delicious eggplant, smoked provola and goat cheese pizza is only 4.5€.
📍 Carrer de la Llibreteria, 10
Bismilla Kebabish: a mythical kebab of Raval
E Bismillah cook everything. And when we tell you everything, is that they even bake their own naan bread, which we personally prefer to take it alone, as a snack, because in its kebab version it is too powerful a bomb.
For only 4€ you get one of the best shawarmas in Barcelona a complete lunch that, for just a few euros, will satisfy even the most demanding palate.
📍 Carrer de Joaquín Costa, 22
Bar Sanz, luxury and cheap snacks in the heart of Borne
The clientele of the Bar Sanz are the people of the neighborhood, the workers who stop there to have lunch a sandwich for between three and four euros. Its metal bar and stools are part of an increasingly unusual postcard.
They also have menu of the day y a huge dog that waits for its owner at the door every afternoon. The virtues of this place are its prices and the value of the everyday. Also the nostalgia of returning to where you have always been, even if you were born far away. And why yes, eating well and cheaply in Barcelona is still possible.
📍 Carrer d’Astúries, 67
La Paloma Banca, a finger-licking Moroccan restaurant
This is one of our favorite sites in the Raval. The living example that you can survive without inflating prices, without Instagram, without cute dishes and with no other branding strategy than a real kitchen, very good and at a good price. Here they have round chickenpastries for only 3€ and you can eat them for lunch.
And you can not miss their crepes Moroccan with cheese and honey, for the reasonable price of one and a half euros.
📍 Carrer de l’Hospital, 126
Bar Monterrey, forquilla’s esmorzars and topburgers
This is an old-fashioned bar, one of those where they serve you a cortado in a crystal glass and where you can have a bikinihuevo for breakfast or a carajillo in the middle of the afternoon.
More than a bar, it’s a meeting place for neighbors, families and friends to share its two star dishes: the Chicago and Hamburg burgers. And if you can’t decide between one of the two, even if it’s not on the menu, you can always join them to order a Chicahamburgo, get the best of both worlds and leave with the feeling that cheap food doesn’t always end up being expensive.
📍 Carrer Major de Sarrià, 68
Chickens and croquettes, the fantasy of many people
Half a chicken for 5€ and up to eight varieties of croquettes for only 1€ a piece. Is there any meal more filling and cheaper than this? This bar is a fantasy: wooden chairs and blue vichy tablecloths that make you feel at home even if it’s your first time there. And, as its name indicates, it is specialized in croquettes and chicken: The Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes for many of us.
If you are one of those who like the basics, you will find chicken croquettes, although we recommend you to try one of escalivada and goat cheese or mushrooms with foie gras.
📍 Carrer Sant Roc, 24
Foni, gambian platters and mojitos to wash them down
If you want to eat well and go out drunk at a good price this is your place. In the Foni you will find huge plates of typical Gambian food and, unless you want to share them, you will have to order half portions, since the full plate, which is around 8€, you can only finish it if there are two of you.
A bomb you’ll need to fill up your tank before ordering their three euro mojitos. We recommend that you wear wide pants or, at least, those in which you can unbutton the button. By the way, their mafe is also prepared in vegetable format, so seekers of cheap vegetarian food, welcome.
📍 Carrer Est, 9
The Pan’s Club, quichesfor all tastes
quiche lovers this is the place for you! At The Pan’s Club you can choose from 18 different types of quiche for only 4,90€ each. So if dinner time catches you in the middle of the Born, and all the offer of restaurants at tourist prices overwhelms you, do not panic, because here you will find cheap and complete dishes.
📍 Plaça de la Llana, 16
Potatoes Sultan, this one needs no explanation
If you are from Barcelona it is (almost) impossible that you don’t know the mythical potatoes for 1€ in the Raval. We don’t know if it’s the spices they add, the free ketchup bar or simply that they cost 1€, but for one reason or another, these fries have been making waves among the city’s youth for years.
And, although we know that just a few fries is not a complete lunch, you can complete your menu with sandwiches or falafel rice for less than 5€. Of course, at your own risk, we are not responsible for it.
📍 Carrer de Joaquín Costa, 56