The Best Hotels, Restaurants and Night Clubs in Barcelona, Spain

Located in the centre of Barcelona, very close to Las Ramblas, and in the most renowned shopping area of Barcelona, this Barcelona 5 stars hotel is surrounded by boulevards, prestigious boutiques, the city’s main attractions and endless shopping and dining options.

El Palace lives up to its name in more ways than one. First, the hotel definitely looks like a palace, but mostly we loved the Old-World interiors, including the dramatic stone columns, tufted velvet seating and gold light fixtures in the grand lobby. The old luxury theme carries over to the guest rooms, with elegant touches such as stone fireplaces and crystal chandeliers on top of modern amenities, minibars and flat-screen TVs, and bathrooms with separate tubs, rainfall showers and L'Occitane bath products.

And should you be tired from a long day of sightseeing, the hotel also offers two restaurants, a cocktail bar, rooftop pool and a spa, plus El Palace is home to one of the largest rooftop gardens in Barcelona.

Mayan Luxury Spa – sounds, rituals and traditional Mayan treatments combined with the French exclusive and prestigious luxury cosmetics, will make your spa experience unforgettable.

A very impressing five-star service – we felt treated like royalty throughout the duration of our stay.

Hotel Arts is situated next to Barcelona’s Olympic Port and surrounded by shops and lively bars, overlooking Barceloneta Beach and the City Centre.

Hotel Arts offers stylish, spacious rooms and suites. Its location lets you enjoy unbeatable views of the city, both in full daylight and at night. Gaze at iconic places like the Sagrada Familia and Mount Tibidabo. Through the large windows of every Deluxe Sea View Room, the vast blue of the Mediterranean stretches as far as the eye can see.

The bathrooms are spacious fully equipped with two sinks, an independent shower and bathtub, and a separate room for the toilet and all kinds of courtesy accessories and bathroom products.

The Hotel Arts offers dinner at Enoteca Paco Pérez – Mediterranean Michelin stars cuisine.

This design hotel has 2 outdoor pools and luxury spa with panoramic city views. The 43 Spa provides two separate bathing areas, for men and women, each equipped with a hydrotherapy pool, dry sauna, steam bath, shower, relaxation area and a spectacular outdoor terrace.

You always get the celebrity treatment with world-class service at Hotel Arts, truly personalized service, multilingual concierge team, an exclusive environment of well-being, luxury and completely individual attention.

The Cotton House Hotel has an excellent location in the heart of Barcelona, only steps away from the most distinguished shopping street in the city. Housed in a 19th-century neoclassical building, recently renovated in 2015, the hotel still has its original marble staircase and parquet ceilings and floors.

The hotel has refined comfortable rooms and spacious suites. Rooms and suites have been designed to offer all possible comfort. The decoration is inspired on cotton through a chromatic combination of the white, black and sepia of the cotton plant and everything it evokes: softness, comfort, delicacy and naturalness, which are materialized in the fabrics and textures of the very highest quality.

The hotel has an excellent Spa, a well-equipped GYM and on the roof of the building there is an outdoor salted water pool with magnificent views.

The Batuar restaurant-menu offers a wide range of local proposals, all made with market ingredients of the very highest quality typical of Mediterranean cuisine.

Top personalized service throughout the hotel.

Located next to the famous Ramblas, in the very heart of Rambla del Raval, a cheery, dynamic, and multicultural neighbourhood with a large choice of restaurants, bars and shops.

Spacious rooms and suites, natural colours and simple geometric shapes, sophisticated contemporary and perfectly equipped for both business trips and short breaks in Barcelona either with your partner or friends.

Restaurant B-Lounge, 360º terrace, is a multifunctional space where you can enjoy delicious tapas, a selection of meals and a wide range of cocktails all year round. At night, the B-Lounge becomes a fashionable meeting place for the general public.

Barcelo Raval’s philosophy and cosmopolitan design connect with the city and make it one of the top hotels in Barcelona. Top service.

Cinc Sentits is a modern and stylish restaurant located in the city centre.

Chef Jordi Artal cuisine is rooted in Catalunya’s culinary traditions, utilizing contemporary techniques and pristine local ingredients. The key to his great food is the fresh, high quality ingredients provided from across Catalunya and Spain; fish from small fishing villages along the Mediterranean coast, organic Beef from the Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian suckling pig from Extremadura and foie gras from the Empordan.

The wine-list is carefully curated, an award-winning wine selection from the wine regions of Catalonia and a broad selection from across Spain.

Passionate about great service and with unfailing charm and attention to detail, Amèlia Artal directs a team of young professionals to offer warm, friendly service without pretensions.

Acces is situated in the center of Barcelona – a unique and stylish designed restaurant.

Acces restaurant and a lounge bar is called “Barcelona's best kept secret” – the elegant yet informal atmosphere of the Lounge area provides an alluring and spacious context for guests to enjoy dynamic cocktails or champagne. The perfect atmosphere for evening drinks, a celebration or a romantic meal.

The lavish ambience of the restaurant builds anticipation for the exquisite contemporary Mediterranean cuisine full of harmonies and contrasts. The professional Chefs can be observed through the open kitchen preparing the beautiful tasty dishes. The scallops and the hakefish is to die for, and the filet mignon is magnificent!

Everything is professional here! This is Barcelona's best option to start a perfect evening!

Restaurant Uma is situated in Eixample of Barcelona – a very modern and stylish six tables dining room.

Chef Iker Erauzkin show does not begin until all diners have sat down – and finish when they decide to leave. Meanwhile, a tasting set menu is displayed, which dishes are as varied as disruptive – a total gastronomic experience that combines cuisine with show.

Restaurant Uma is an intimate and evocative place with a roguish, imaginative and bizarre cuisine in the best of senses, a cuisine as cosmopolitan as linked to the territory and, at last, a unique experience that does not resemble anything, for the most intrepid palates.

Among the many top-end restaurants around the world we have visited, Uma ranks very high. Chef Iker Erauzkin's show is a total and unique experience that leaves you without words.

A very stylish and elegant restaurant situated on the seafront in the heart of the Barceloneta neighbourhood.

Founded in 1903, an emblematic restaurant, famous for the rice and seafood dishes - Classic Mediterranean cuisine – the best sourced ingredients cooked according to traditional and sailor recipes. And perfect wine pairing options – every dish in the menu has one or several perfect matchings in the diverse range of wines; white, rosé or red, cava or champagne.

If something is delicious, why changing it? Can Solé is an anachronism, a culinary time capsule. We hope it never changes. The Chef serves, big, hearty, lovingly made dishes that haven’t changed in decades. There are no twists on classic themes, or modern takes with reinterpreted presentations. There are only bowlfuls and platefuls of deeply flavoursome food made with fine ingredients.

Can Solé is the right place for real seafood-lovers.

Restaurant Can Culleretes is situated in Barri Gòtic in the City centre, close to La Rambla.

Founded in 1786, Can Culleretes is the oldest restaurant in Barcelona and the second in Spain – the restaurant contains within its walls over two hundred years of history that are present in every corner. This emblematic restaurant is decorated with large paintings of the early twentieth century and welcomes guests in a really nice atmosphere.

The extensive menu features the most traditional recipes of the Catalan cuisine, always made good market produce. The food is delicious, and the service is quick, friendly and efficient like a well-oiled machine, everything just happens like clockwork. We highly recommend paella, spinach Catalan style and suckling pig – meat Cannelloni was also excellent, everything is traditionally homemade.

Prices are just right; Catalan food can’t get any better at this antic restaurant.

CDLC Club is Barcelona’s finest club, elegant and sits directly on Barceloneta beach.

CDLC has a lounge and restaurant area at the front of the venue, overlooking the sea.

The music policy covers genres including R&B, house and electro – the focus is on local talent.

CDLC Club is a popular choice for the affluent yacht set and offers private tables – attracting the young, the beautiful and the international set. Going to CDLC is to schmooze amongst models, jet setters and yacht owners – dancing and drinking champagne.

CDLC Club is the pearl in Barcelona's club life.

La Terazza Club is located just “a 10 minutos a pie desde el Plaza España”.

La Terazza Club is a perfect place to spend a fun night. The electronic open air-club inside a beautiful walled replica village (Pueblo Español), cool and unbridled environment where you can enjoy music.

This Club is one of Barcelona's most well-known clubs, glamorous and well-groomed crowd.

Sidecar Club is situated just off the Ramblas, in the heart of Barcelona.

Sidecar is a small, dark and intimate club – a reference venue in Barcelona’s music scene, thanks to its very careful programming of both concerts and DJ sets, it’s a place where all the creative trends in the city converge. A small club by size but very big on impact.

Sidecar's sweaty basement club attracts a younger crowd in search of a raucous night out. It is just one room where you will find the dance floor, a long bar and a small stage area. The music varies greatly – an eclectic music selection - after midnight the DJs take over, playing anything from the new craze in modern dance music to good old-fashioned rock and roll.

Sidecar is very popular amongst young travellers who come from the numerous youth hostels dotted around Plaza Reial, and amongst local music fans supporting this excellent music-scene.

Sala Be Cool is good quality house, techno, deep house and disco. Past DJs on the decks have including Chicks On Speed, Joakim, Pilooski, Ralph Lawson and Altern8. Sala Be Cool is the place Barcelona's most discerning clubbers are heading for.

The crowd at Sala Be Cool are generally a slightly older set and are thinking music, and will be there for the music and the DJs.

Sala Be Cool is a medium sized club with a city-wide reputation for its good quality sound system. The resident DJ, DJohnston, accompanied by a varied program of guest artists bring together the most underground audience of the city.

Thursday night means Noise Club at BeCool. Electro-rock and young people meet week after week consolidating it as the best alternative for thursdays in Barcelona.