Venus

Address Avinyó 25 Telephone 93 301 15 85
Public transport Metro Liceu
Opening hours noon-12pm Mon-Sat.

Delicatessen products in a nice restaurant.

Taxidermista

Address Plaça Reial 8 Telephone 93 412 45 36
Public transport Metro Liceu
Opening hours noon-2am Tue-Sun. Meals served 1.30-4pm, 8.30-12.30pm. Closed 2wks Jan.

Taxidermista has an immense popularity with tourists. The Franco-Catalan menu does not change often but it is not necessary.

Slokai

Address C/ Palau 5 Telephone 93 317 90 94
Public transport Metro Jaume I
Opening hours 1pm-1am Mon-Frid; 9pm-12pm Sun.

Music while eating in a different place.

Shangrila

Address Josep Anselm Clavé 19 Telephone 93 302 97 75
Public transport Metro Drassanes
Opening hours 12am-3am Mon-Sun.

Pakistaní cuisine.

Santa Mònica

Address Plaça Reial 12 Telephone 93 301 13 64
Public transport Metro Plaça Liceu
Opening hours 8pm-2am Mon-Sun.

Ambiente moderno, ideal para cenar y tomar unas copas se vas de marcha por Ciutat Vella.

Les Quinze Nits

Address Plaça Reial 6 Telephone 93 317 30 75
Public transport Metro Liceu
Opening hours 1-3.45pm, 8.30-11.30pm daily.

A ferociously popular chain of restaurants, whose bargain basement prices are utterly incongruous in such sleek settings. Branches: La Dolça Herminia, C/Magdalenes 27 (93 317 06 76); La Fonda, C/Escudellers 10 (93 301 75 15) and throughout the city.

La Cerería

Address Baixada de Sant Miquel 3 Telephone 93 301 85 10
Public transport Metro Jaume I
Opening hours 9:30am-11:30pm Mon-Sat.

Bar and restaurant alternative.

El Gran Café

Address C/Avinyó 9 Telephone 93 318 79 86
Public transport Metro Liceu
Opening hours 1-4pm, 8pm-midnight Mon-Sat.

Old-fashioned service in this good brasserie: steak tartare, roast beef, duck magret and osso buco.

Casa Quimet

Address Rambla del Prat 9 Telephone ---
Public transport Metro Fontana
Opening hours ---

Known as the guitars' bar, it has more than two hundred. In this bar were once famous people as Joan Manuel Serrat, Lola Flores or Geraldine Chaplin.

Jean Luc Figueras

Address C/Santa Teresa 10 Telephone 93 415 28 77
Public transport Metro Diagonal
Opening hours 1.30-3.30pm, 8.30-11.30pm Mon-Fri; 8.30-11.30pm Sat. Closed 2wks Aug.

Wonderful sauces and innovative combinations

La Rosa del Desierto

Address Plaça Narcís Oller Telephone 93 237 45 90
Public transport Metro Diagonal
Opening hours 1pm-3:30pm/9pm-11:30pm Mon-Sun.

The first maroccan restaurant of Barcelona.

La Torreta de Gràcia

Address Verdi 179 - 181 Telephone 93 237 02 68
Public transport Metro Lesseps
Opening hours 1pm-4pm/8:30pm-12pm Mon-Sat.

Catalan cuisine.

Ot

Address C/Torres 25 Telephone 93 284 77 52
Public transport Metro Diagonal or Verdaguer
Opening hours 2-4pm, 9-11pm Mon-Fri; 9-11pm Sat. Closed 3wks Aug.

Good food in a very relaxed place.