10 of the best market restaurants in Barcelona

10 of the best market restaurants in Barcelona

The restaurants and stalls around Barcelona’s markets use fresh produce, often direct from the vendors – and are some of the best places to eat in the city

You’ve not very done urban center till you’ve ticked off a Gaudí or 2, had some average tapas, watched stag and hen parties untidily collide within the early hours – and visited a locals’ market wherever you'll fall smitten with town. There ar nearly forty food markets here; virtually each barrio (neighbourhood) has one. There are numerous non-food markets. every has its own character, reflective its community, thus a market trip is a wonderful approach of exploring town on the far side the Ramblas. La Boqueria (the city’s most illustrious market, on the Ramblas) isn't during this list as a result of it’s sold-out its soul to the devil, WHO leads a Segway tour of the Gothic Quarter on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. If you insist, google La Quim and Bar Pinotxo.

Mercat Diamond State Santa Caterina, La Ribera, Ciutat Vella
 Cuines Santa Caterina, Santa Caterina market, Barcelona
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For every holidaymaker in La Boqueria, there’s a neighborhood in Santa Caterina, a handful of minutes’ walk from the cathedral, elderly with their searching. Santa Caterina features a seriously cool multi-coloured undulating roof from its 2005 build. It’s a fine example of the city’s formidable programme of change its markets to form them suitable the twenty first century. house has been created for a food market, however the fish, meat and vegetable stalls ar the $64000 stars. Order a pincho moruno (spicy meat skewer) for a handful of euros at Bar Joan and watch it all happening on the fish stands or sit all the way down to a way additional fashionable affair at Cuines Santa Caterina. The menu is long, slightly knotty, and principally fashionable Catalan, via a fast detour of Asia. Expect to pay around €30-40 a head.
• Market (Avenida Diamond State Francesc Cambó sixteen, mercatsantacaterina.com) open Mon, Wed and Sat seven.30am-3.30pm, Tues, Thurs and weekday seven.30am-8.30pm. Cuines Santa Caterina (+34 932 689918) open Mon-Fri 1pm-4pm, Sat-Sun 1pm-4.30pm and Sun-Wed 8pm-midnight, Thurs-Sat 8pm-12.30am. Bar Joan (+34 933 106150, no website) open Mon-Sat seven.30am-3.30pm (8pm on Fri)

Mercat dels Encants, Glòries
 Mercat dels Encants, Barcelona
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Back within the day you’d return to Encants outside marketplace to search out the bike that had been purloined from you a number of days before. however it affected in 2013 to a brand new website and cleansed up its act. That’s to not say that you just won’t realize a freakish vary of stuff among its many stalls. Stuffed elephant’s foot anyone? Or however a few vintage flip-flop? Not a combine, simply the left flip-flop. the enormous reflected cover reflects the sky and trees transfer the surface in – however keeps the keep. Walkways take you 3 storeys to the highest and to a spread of places to eat. i used to be tempted by a beef on rye at Stop & Mos for €7.95 however the wind was whistling and that i people to El Mirall dels Encants eating place on the bottom floor. The menú del día (set lunch) at €10.50 is nice quality and price, that includes ingredients hardly ever seen on a menu, like picantón (spring chicken) and cazón (dog fish).



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• Market (Carrer Diamond State Castillejos 158) open Mon, Wed, weekday and Sat 9am-8pm. Stop & Mos (+34 647 424980, on Facebook) open Mon, Wed, weekday and Sat 8am-8pm. El Mirall dels Encants (+34 930 084080, on Facebook) open Mon-Fri 7am-midnight, Sat 7am-1am, Sun 9am-7pm

Mercat Diamond State Galvany, Sant Gervasi
 Al mercat Diamond State Galvany, Barcelona
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This huge, beautiful brick, iron and glass building from 1868 is one amongst the city’s best-kept food secrets; it's very popular the locals and little-known on the far side. Sant Gervasi is one amongst the city’s posher areas however the market itself has no pretensions, simply numerous correct stalls. It’s dominated by a roundabout of fish stalls – smaller than the illustrious one within the Boqueria, and while not the tour teams. Café Galvany may be a classic market bar: little, basic, busy and friendly. It serves up the same old suspects (bocadillos, tortillas etc) for a number of euros however they're done very well. I had most likely my best callos (beef tripe and chickpeas) ever there – viscidly delicious. 
• Market (Carrer Diamond State Santaló sixty five, mercatgalvany.es) open Mon-Thurs 7am-2pm, Fri-Sat 7am-2.30pm. Café Galvany (+34 669 188972) open Mon 6am-3pm, Tues-Sat 5am-3pm

Mercat del Ninot, Esquerra Diamond State l’Eixample (the left aspect of the Eixample district)
 Bacalao (salted cod) at Perelló 1898.
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 Bacalao (salted cod) at Perelló 1898
The city’s markets evolve to fulfill residents’ dynamical wants as Ninot’s recent five-year overhaul demonstrates. There’s a giant food market and much of house and lightweight, however the foremost dramatic development is that the range of stalls that additionally double up as places to eat. Those fish and meat paradas with a menu, counter and a number of stools ar operating their margins, that is sensible during this well-off a part of city. Perelló 1898 is dedicated to all things bacalao (cod, specifically salt-cured cod), from thick items of belly to desalinate and cook reception to takeaway meals. Pull up a stool for tapas (buñuelos Diamond State bacalao – cod fritters – were light-weight and very tasty) cost accounting a number of euros, cod in a very alternative of sauces around €12, or specials like cod dish (€6.50). I treasured this place. The 2015 reopening additionally brought a eating place, El Ninot Cuina, to the market. It’s got associate ethereal interior, open room and an honest €14 menú del día. 
• Market (Carrer Diamond State Mallorca, 133, mercatdelninot.com) open Mon-Sat 8am-9.15pm. Perelló 1898 (+34 934 543220) open Mon-Sat 8am-5pm. El Ninot Cuina (+34 932 776884) open Tues-Sat 9am-4pm, Sun-Mon 9am-4pm

Mercat Diamond State la Barceloneta, Barceloneta
 El Bar Diamond State Paco, Mercat Diamond State la Barceloneta, Barcelona
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 El Bar Diamond State Paco
Barceloneta has modified massively within the ten years I’ve familiar it. the broader vary of uptake choices good; the explosion of commercially owned  Airbnb lettings unhealthy. The large, open open-air market is extremely abundant the guts of the barrio. It’s the place wherever folks will escape their notoriously incommodious flats, get some air and gossip. The 19th-century market was restored between 2005 and 2007, that value-added steel, glass and a spectacular swooping roof, however left most of the first piece of work intact. The market itself feels terribly totally different to Ninot; less polished, each the stalls and therefore the punters. however it’s my native market, and I’m not terribly polished, thus i really like it. Take a stool at El Bar Diamond State Paco, order a mediana (bottle of beer) and watch market life. Paco’s menú del día is ok however i would go elsewhere to eat, maybe the infamously unpolished La Cova Fumada within the sq. for food for not abundant cash. 
• Market (Plaça Diamond State Font i Sagué, mercatdelabarceloneta.com) open Mon-Thurs 7am-2pm, weekday 7am-8pm, Sat 7am-3pm. El Bar Diamond State Paco (+34 932 215016, no website) open Mon-Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 7am-4.30pm. La Cova Fumada (+34 932 214061, no website) gap hours unpredictable, however typically Mon-Sat 9am-lunchtime, closed Sundays

Mercat Diamond State la Llibertat, Gràcia
 El Tast Diamond State Joan Noi, Mercat Diamond State la Llibertat, Barcelona
 El Tast Diamond State Joan Noi
This is most likely my favorite market within the town. It’s fairly tiny and in a very pretty a part of city. the insufficient streets of Gràcia, thus human-scaled, ar jam-choked with attention-grabbing bars, restaurants and outlets. The market sits snugly in its square; simply enough space around it for a few massive knicker stalls. it had been in-built 1888 and refurbished in 2009, however you wouldn’t understand that from the surface – it’s all piece of work and brick, none of the fashionable tricks of Santa Caterina and Barceloneta. El Tast Diamond State Joan Noi is simply a number of stools aboard a fish stand. So far, so simple. however the cook, Paco González, wont to work Botafumeiro, one amongst Barcelona’s known food restaurants. the wonderful menú del día is simply €10 however the stand-out specials ar baby scallops cooked, cubed tuna with a condiment, fortified wine and walnut dressing and squid, clams and white beans. 
• Market (Plaça Diamond State la Llibertat 27) open Mon-Fri 8am-8.30pm, Sat 8am-3pm. El Tast Diamond State Joan Noi (+34 635 706429, on Facebook) open Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2.30pm

Palo Alto, Poblenou
 town market Poblenou, Barcelona
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In a town of historic markets this one stands out; it’s simply celebrated its second birthday. And what a preferred birthday boy/girl it's, despite the €4 admission charge and therefore the ridiculously long queues to induce in (book on-line to skip them). This monthly market is command (or “curated”) in a very former mill complicated in a very stylish barrio. we have a tendency to ar talking handcrafted, vintage, retro – and that’s simply the facial hair. however don’t worry, this place isn’t solely popular hipsters; families and young couples like it too. The market’s got a stunning feel. the positioning is industrial, however amazingly inexperienced. You wander between jewelry, wear and art stands set amongst trees, with lots of shady places to prevent and watch the tribes. DJs and live performers offer the audio recording. then there’s the food – all the players in Barcelona’s burgeoning street truck scene ar here. Burgers, force pork, ceviche, you get the thought. There’s an honest eating place, La Cantina town (menú del día €12), open throughout the week if you would like to go to the complicated while not the beards. 
• Market (Carrer dels Pellaires thirty, paloaltomarket.com) open 2 weekends in Gregorian calendar month, 3-4 and 17-18, 11am-9pm. La Cantina town (+34 933 070974) open Mon-Fri 1pm-4pm

Mercat Diamond State Les Corts, Les Corts
 Mercat Diamond State Les Corts, Barcelona
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Hundreds of thousands of tourists a year create the journeying to Camp Nou, home of FC urban center for games and construction tours. They’re missing a trick if they don’t explore the district within which it sits, Les Corts. Its quiet, solidly bourgeois streets don’t have the charm of the Gothic Quarter, however neither do they need the tourists. Similarly, the Nineteen Sixties market, a 10-minute walk from Camp Nou, doesn’t have the wow issue of older sites, however it’s active and boasts El Bisaura, a small place tucked away in a very corner. All of its [*fr1] a dozen tables we have a tendency tore reserved however we snuck in by uptake unfashionably early at 1pm. stunningly sweet clams and mussels, then griddled octopus and cuttle. The sting was within the bill, €65 for 2. The clams were a hefty €18 – worthwhile however hardly. Learn from our schoolchild error and raise the worth before ordering. 
• Market (Travessera Diamond State les Corts 215, mercatdelescorts.cat) open Mon-Wed 7am-2.30pm, Thurs-Fri 7am-8pm, Sat 7am-3pm. El Bisaura (+34 933 307001, no website) open Tues-Sat half dozen.30am-4.30pm

Mercat Diamond State Sant Antoni, Sant Antoni
 Rekons, Mercat Diamond State Sant Antoni, Barcelona
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 Rekons
This marvel of modernisme is finally rising from the staging when its much-delayed renovation. it's reopening in 2018. The food and wear market’s temporary house is close and useful however charmless. My tip is to travel to its Sunday relative dedicated to books and collectibles. Its temporary house is the most road through this a part of city that is closed to traffic for a number of hours. Dozens of stalls seem marketing everything from dirty  classics and vintage postcards to pristine Fifties comics and well-thumbed 70s sex magazines. Meanwhile, boys and their dads pack the road corners to swap soccer stickers. At one finish of the market is Rekons, associate Argentinian empanada place with a terrace that’s excellent for looking the market action as you eat its delicious pastries priced at a awfully moreish €2.10. 
• Market (Carrer del Comte d’Urgell 1) open Sundays eight.30am-2.30pm. Rekons (Carrer del Comte d’Urgell thirty two, +34 934 246383) open Wed-Mon 10am-midnight

Mercat Diamond State Sants, Sants
 Mercat Diamond State Sants, Barcelona.
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Oh to own been a brickmaker in dominion within the early years of the twentieth century. you'd have created a packet as Gaudí and co heaped variant them into their styles. Sants market was designed by Pere Falqués and opened in 1913. It’s a formidable building; the soaring facade of brick and ceramics is solid however deeply pleasing and therefore the roof merely brilliant. A 2014 renovation fortunately unbroken several of the first fine arts options. It’s a busy market however the busiest half is around Montero, that specialises in menjars casolans (homemade meals) to require away. A a gradual trade becomes a feeding hysteria here as lunch period approaches. There ar dozens of dishes to decide on from for a number of euros. I had roast artichoke with ham and inexperienced beans with baby squid. There ar a number of tables and they’ll heat your purchases up for you thus you'll be able to tuck straight in. definitely worth the 20-minute walk from Plaça d’Espanya.
• Market (Carrer Diamond State Sant Jordi half dozen, santsmercat.com) open Mon 8am-2.30pm, Tues-Fri 8am-8.30pm, Sat 8am-3pm. Montero (+34 934 912846) open same hours as market