Finding the ideal place to celebrate your birthday is not easy. Whether you’re thinking of an idea for yourself or looking for a gift for someone special, lighting up isn’t always easy. That’s why this list is right for you.
From immersive experiences to beautiful hotels for a getaway away from Barcelona, or beautiful hotels with spa to spend a day of vacation in your own city. And, of course, passing by cool stores where you can buy a nice gift.
In the end, the goal is the same, to give yourself a tribute, celebrate a birthday in style and give yourself the experience that you don’t have time to enjoy the rest of the year.
Table Of Contents
- Nobu, enjoy the panoramic views of the city
- Eat in a tableware worthy of Philip II at Rilke Restaurant
- Cyber Dali in IDEAL
- Art Gallery and Multifunctional Space
- Piñata Cantina, mexican brunch
- AIRE Ancient Baths
- MasSpa, at Mas de Torrent Hotel & Spa
- Nomading, camping burburja
- Gastronomic getaway to Nomo Far de Sant Sebastià
- Cardona Parador
- Play Point BCN, laser war
- Les Planes picnic area
- Vegues Valparaiso Barbecue
- Can Jané in case you don't feel like cooking
- Unusual* Unusual
- Vila Viniteca, gourmet paradise
- Jardinet D'Aribau
- Diacaciones, one-day vacations
- Casa Bonay, the home hotel
Intimate birthday party at a nice restaurant in the city
Intimate or not, a visit to these restaurants is worthwhile. It is not easy to find a nice place to celebrate a birthday, and that is why it is a good idea to look at this list and look for one that seduces us. From places with a retro and classic air to charming terraces or restaurants with exquisite decor and sea views. And of course, all with delicious food to blow out candles in style.
Nobu, enjoy the 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 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
Eat in a tableware worthy of Philip II at Rilke Restaurant
what would it be like to eat in a Versailles salon? That’s 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
Give the gift of an immersive experience
In Barcelona they have become fashionable, and once you visit them you understand why. Immersive experiences are the Chiqui Park of adults, a different way to have fun and an original place to celebrate a birthday, where traditional gymkhanas reach another level thanks to technology, becoming 3D rides through imaginary (but very real) worlds or interactive trips.
In the city, among others, there is Ikonos and its tours, with futuristic ball pools, the Paradox museum, which allows you to experience unimaginable paradoxes in first person, or Stereostory, with which you can tour the city expanding the information with immersive technology.
Cyber Dali in IDEAL
Seeing a painting is fine, but getting into it is another level. That’s what they propose iDEAL’s immersive experiences the company, which for some time now has been launching experiential tours of classic authors of contemporary art so that we can immerse ourselves, thanks to 3D technology, in their paintings.
Art Gallery and Multifunctional Space
After its success in cities such as London and Berlin, this gallery dedicated to the promotion of art and creativity, opens its doors in the original and fluorescent dark painting workshop known as Neon Brush.
A cozy and versatile environment that you will find in the Ciutat Vella neighborhood where, with paintbrush and glass in hand, you will unlock your artistic skills. This fun and interactive workshop awaits you with fluorescent paint, neon lights, music and, for a limited time, unlimited drinks – take advantage!
📍 Carrer de Buenaventura Muñoz, 6, Barcelona
Try an exotic brunch to celebrate a birthday morning
Brunches are already a religion in Barcelona, and if you haven’t tried any of them, it’s not long before you’re looking for a weekend morning to try one of these authentic tributes to gluttony.
There are many brunches in Barcelona, so many that the classics are already familiar to us, and some new, original and thematic proposals have begun to emerge . From the Peruvian brunch at Tasseta Verde to the Latin brunch at Aprada, any option is good for a morning birthday treat to cure the hangover from the night’s party.
Piñata Cantina, mexican brunch
An authentic Mexican cantina (of so many good ones in town) that now also offers a 12h brunch every Sunday. 16h. with both sweet and savory dishes such as enchiladas (tacos dipped in sauce), Chilaquiles (tortilla chips with eggs and chicken) and Crepes with cajeta (goat milk caramel) and coffee.
Treat yourself to the pampering you deserve at a spa
Nothing like ending or starting a birthday day by giving ourselves the care we would like to receive every day of the year. Few places to celebrate a birthday for adults than a spa where the water games of the hot springs, massages and baths help us to get rid of the stress of the other 364 days of the year.
AIRE Ancient Baths
Since we discovered them, we fell in love with them. The first one emerged in Barcelona, in the neighborhood of Born. Under one of the portals of Passeig Picasso, in an old warehouse of the end of the XVIII century, these thermal baths are hidden that combine to the perfection modern character and traditional essence. A place that oozes beauty and where you will find massages, aromatherapy and all kinds of body and facial care to pamper you.
Inspired by the tradition of the baths of the ancient Roman, Greek and Ottoman civilizations, AIRE is always located in restored historic buildings in the center of cities. In addition to water, AIRE always recreates an atmosphere of magic and sophistication.
Passeig Picasso, 22, Barcelona
Riera de Vallromanes, s/n, 08188 Can Salagros, Vallromanes
MasSpa, at Mas de Torrent Hotel & Spa
We dare to say that MasSpa is, according to our criteria, one of the three best spas in Catalonia. For the quality of the spa, the place where it is located and the surrounding environment. Nothing more and nothing less than a 5* Hotel, the Mas de Torrent Hotel & Spa, a few kilometers from Begur, on the Costa Brava.
The space in which MasSpa is located has more than 600m2 dedicated to sport, relaxation, wellness and calm. In short, a place designed for holistic care that houses a heated pool, treatment rooms, dry sauna and hammam, water circuit and activities such as yoga, meditation, pilates..
In addition, the menu of treatments and massages are provided by Natura Bissé and Comfort Zone, pioneers in cosmetic and wellness products.
Afores de Torrent s/n, Torrent (Girona)
A getaway
As cheesy people say, getting lost is often the best way to find yourself. Therefore, there are few better places to celebrate a birthday than those far from our usual environment. A getaway outside of Barcelona is already a good plan but if we accompany it with a fun experience, the birthday is rounded.
Nomading, camping burburja
It’s a couple of hours from Barcelona, but it’s worth it. The Nomading Camp is a campsite where you sleep in bubble rooms that leave the roof of the sky for us. The bubbles, air-conditioned, with private bathroom and breakfast included and even a telescope to see the stars. A luxury experience to celebrate a birthday in style.
📍 La Farga de Moles, Lérida
Gastronomic getaway to Nomo Far de Sant Sebastià
Getting out of Barcelona is good. Going out to eat is even better. But going out for sushi dinner in an old lighthouse sitting literally on the sea is priceless. This location, one of our favorite restaurants on the Costa Brava it is wonderful and the food has the seal of quality of the Nomo group, regulars of Japanese food in Barcelona. Few better places to celebrate a great birthday.
📍 Passeig de Pau Casals, 64 17211 Llafranc
Cardona Parador
Going to imaginary war with toy guns
Paintball is a classic party game, a fun excuse to get friends together and play guerrilla games with guns that only leave, luckily, colored marks. Now, apart from paintball, there is also laser tag, the urban option for those who do not need to leave the city.
Play Point BCN, laser war
In Barcelona there are two centers and few simpler dynamics. You enter with your friends, put on your vests, load your weapons and run through the mazes looking to conquer the opposing base. A hilarious plan to celebrate your birthday with all your colleagues and make the group that loses the game pay for the beers afterwards.
📍 Compte Borrell Center, 88 (Barcelona), Cartagena Center, 329-331 (Barcelona)
BBQ with friends in the countryside
The title says it all. Any better idea than to go to make some grilled meat or some calçots in the middle of nature to celebrate a birthday with friends? Low-cost, self-made and wow, anglicisms aside, a lot of fun.
Les Planes picnic area
The most classic. The only picnic area in Collserola with easy access by train is also the most popular, so it’s best to make a reservation. Of course, in advance you will be able to enjoy a space with barbecues and tables surrounded by trees and some open fields to have a few touches. Music, atmosphere, ember and return by train so that no driver has to miss the toast.
📍 BV-1462, Carrer Vallvidrera a Sant Cugat, Km. 6.5
Vegues Valparaiso Barbecue
Further away, but in an idyllic setting. If you haven’t been to Begues yet, it’s your turn, and by the way, you can take the opportunity to celebrate your birthday at a Valparaíso barbecue, a great place in the middle of the Garraf natural park, with a huge circular barbecue in the center, and with an affordable cost of 15 euros per car (with firewood included).
📍 On the N340 freeway, exit Avinyó Nou, direction Begues on the BV-2411
Can Jané in case you don’t feel like cooking
His specialty is Catalan cuisine and grilled meats, and what a grill it is! In addition, the vegetables are from their own garden and seasonal. All this in a natural environment, in a family farmhouse of the eighteenth century located in the Serra de Collserola and only 10 minutes from Barcelona. In the middle of nature, next to the Ermita de Sant Medir, it is the perfect place to disconnect from the city without having to go far away. It is also the perfect excuse to take advantage and climb Tibidabo.
Camí de Can Jané s/n 08196 Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona)
Calçotada menu, from 39,50€.
Giving yourself a gastronomic treat (or not)
Buying something nice or tasty is clearly a great way to give yourself a birthday present. Barcelona is full of great concept stores and original stores where you can find great gifts, but it is also a good idea to put together the basket of any foodie’s dreams by going to some of the gourmet stores in the city.
Unusual* Unusual
Its name already prepares you for what you are going to find. Most unusual objects. I’m talking about rings carved in stone or plates with drawings so beautiful that it would make you angry to eat on them.
Unusual* opened its doors in 2019, becoming one of the first concept stores in the Poblenou neighborhood, one of the most avant-garde neighborhoods and with projection in the field of design in Barcelona. It is a concept store based on the sale of unusual and original products. Among them, shoes, furniture, magazines and fanzines?
Ramon Turró, 147
Vila Viniteca, gourmet paradise
Any gulafre’s dream store gulafre. Vila Viniteca has a small empire in the lower Zone of the Borne, in Agullers street, where it has several premises in which stand out on the one hand, the viniteca, with more than 10000 references and a locked section where the most special bottles are kept.
On the other, the gourmet store, with all kinds of premium foods and a crown jewel, a cheese chamber with over 200 names from around the world, which is a place to get lost in and never come back.
📍Carrer dels Agullers, 7
Jardinet D’Aribau
This is the ideal restaurant to celebrate a dinner with close friends. The perfect place to meet and catch up, to enjoy a good menu or have a romantic dinner with our partner.
At the Jardinet D’Aribau you can now also enjoy Dining in the Dark, a sensory blindfolded dining experience where you will eat a secret 3-course menu, where flavors and aromas are intensified! A unique meeting to celebrate a birthday in the most original way.
📍 Carrer d’Aribau, 133, Barcelona
Vacation in your own city
We can think of few better plans. Rediscovering our own city as if we were those tourists that sometimes overwhelm us so much is a great plan, another way to see the city, as if you were looking at your house from the table. There are many options to do so, but we leave you with a few for you to choose the one you like best.
Diacaciones, one-day vacations
There is a company that is dedicated to facilitate as much as possible this concept of vacation in the city itself, the “vacation days” they call them. It is called Hotel Break, and we already told you about it because we liked that one day you can wake up at home and then go to a hotel spa and sleep in their room and the next day you can sleep at home again. A complete experience that can be a fantastic gift.
Casa Bonay, the home hotel
A hotel that seeks to integrate into neighborhood life and succeeds in doing so. There are not that many. Beyond its rooms, its cocktail bar The Libertine, its micro-bookstore, its music sessions or its gastronomic initiatives are a perfect excuse to consider spending a night there.