Barcelona Restaurant Awards 2025
Barcelona is a city that has a strong, creative, innovative, sustainable and diverse culinary offering. Over the years, restaurants in the city’s districts and neighbourhoods have become an essential part of the city’s fabric, and, at the same time, a key player in promoting the potential of Barcelona’s culinary culture.
Barcelona City Council’s Directorate for Retail, Restaurants and Food Services has announced the winners of the sixth edition of the Barcelona Restaurant Awards, honouring the city restaurants that stood out in 2024 due to their engagement with their respective neighbourhoods and values such as integration, quality of life, sustainability, innovation and dedication to service.
The Barcelona Restaurant Awards seek to recognise and promote the initiatives of neighbourhood restaurants and local establishments in the city and highlight their contribution to high-quality, locally sourced and sustainable cuisine that forms part of Barcelona’s identity.
Culinary Quality Award
Recognises the establishment’s long-standing culinary reputation, as backed by neighbourhood clientele and institutions, with a focus on the use of local and seasonal food, the quality of service and the uniqueness of the culinary offering.
Winner: Bellafila (Ciutat Vella)
For offering high-quality cuisine with its own personality and narrative, while demonstrating a commitment to locally sourced, strictly seasonal food. With a well-established track record, it is a model of elaborate, healthy cuisine with soul.
Shortlisted: Ca L’Estevet · Ca la Nuri · Direkte · Alba Granados · Malparit · Teòric Taverna Gastronòmica · Can MarLau · Deliri · La Gormanda · Roig Robí · Dorotea · Restaurante BaLó · La Cholita · Ovante · TocaTeca · Atipical · Muysca · El Pilar’t d’en Marcelino · Filigrana · UMO Alex Vall
Neighbourhood Integration Award
Recognises the restaurant’s identification with the area’s special characteristics, focusing on how it fosters community, celebrates local diversity and is seen as a leading social space by residents.
Winner: La Esquinica (Nou Barris)
For being much more than a tapas bar for over 50 years: a meeting point and social space that has grown with the neighbourhood and its people, a symbol of hospitality and a place that brings neighbours and generations together.
Shortlisted: Restaurant La Pau · La Sosenga · Los Tortillez · Restaurant Ponsa · La Dolors · El Pernilet d’Horta · Bar Petit Galileu · La Marcelina · Vidorra · Restaurant Sant Martí · El Camarote d’en Tomàs · Restaurant El Muntal · El Canalla · La Royale
Sustainability Award
Rewards good practices linked to the principles of sustainability and the circular economy, especially a commitment to organic and locally sourced products, responsible management and environmental awareness.
Winner: Restaurant Xavier Pellicer (Eixample)
For being a model of sustainability and locally sourced, organic products, as well as a restaurant that combines transformation, investigation, engagement and culinary quality with a clear dedication to a conscientious and healthy service.
Shortlisted: Brugarol Barcelona · GatBlau Restaurant · Restaurant Nectari · Lata Bern@ · Can Culleres · Avenir Restaurant
Front of House Service Award
Recognises organisation, coordination and excellence in customer service to ensure a unique and satisfactory experience that combines professionalism, friendliness and a personal touch.
Winner: Flash Flash (Sarrià - Sant Gervasi)
For offering, over more than 55 years, a high-quality dining service where every guest feels at home, with excellence that pays attention to every little detail and keeps alive the spirit of one of the city’s most iconic restaurants.
Shortlisted: Las Fernández · Gilda by Belgious · Babula Bar 1937 · Oníric Restaurant · Restaurant 2CERO7 · Parada Restaurant
Barcelona Markets Restaurant Award
Distinguishes the quality of bars and restaurants linked to the city markets that combine tradition and innovation and demonstrate a commitment to fresh, seasonal food.
Winner: El Racó del Mercat (Mercat de Provençals, Sant Martí)
For being a true market restaurant and a meeting point for locals and visitors. Known for its emorzars de forquilla (hearty breakfasts) and use of fresh, seasonal food, it is a culinary standard-bearer in the neighbourhood.
Shortlisted: Quiosc Modern · Bar Joan
Special Recognition
Los Caracoles (Ciutat Vella)
For being the second oldest restaurant in Barcelona, with a history going back 190 years. Founded by the Bofarull family, with the fifth generation now at the helm, it continues to offer world-renowned traditional Catalan cuisine from the heart of the Gothic Quarter.
Moncho Neira (Gràcia)
For his iconic career and indelible legacy in Barcelona’s food scene. The founder of El Botafumeiro, he was an inspirational leader and a key figure in the international projection of the city’s cuisine.