The 31 Best Bars in Spain

Sips

Simone Caporale and Marc Álvarez placed No. 3 on The World's 50 Best Bars in 2025, with the Best Bar in Europe title for a third straight year, and stand at No. 16 on The 50 Best Bars 2026 with a program that treats the bar counter as a laboratory stage. The fourteen-seat bar-within-a-bar, Esencia, runs omakase-style liquid tasting menus, ten to fifteen micro-drinks in deliberate sequence, Tuesday through Saturday. Caporale received the Roku Industry Icon Award in 2025, cementing a status that his drinks had already established. Sips operates on the conviction that cocktails can deliver the same complexity as fine dining. It is correct.

Paradiso

Giacomo Giannotti's freezer-door speakeasy won the World's Best Bar title in 2022 and is No. 17 on The 50 Best Bars 2026 (No. 4 in 2025), with the Legend of the List Award, and the energy inside the wood-panelled room shows no sign of a post-victory fade. Cocktails arrive as multi-sensory experiences, explored through scientific and cosmic themes, built in the dedicated Paradiso Lab, and served in vessels that function as design objects. Giannotti now curates the Barcelona Cocktail Fest 2026, extending his influence beyond the bar and into the city's broader drinking culture.

Two Schmucks

What Moe Aljaff and AJ co-founded reached No. 11 on the World's 50 Best Bars in 2021 and remains one of the most influential bar concepts of the decade. The shabby exterior, graffiti-plastered street, and staff in jeans deliver cocktails with technical skill that contradicts every visual cue. The Schmucks Vesper, gin, vodka, Laphroaig, pecorino, typifies the irreverence. Aljaff has since launched Schmuck NYC and departed for the US, but the Barcelona original keeps the fire burning. Monthly menu changes keep regulars returning; the spirit Aljaff and AJ established endures.

Boadas

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, operating since the 1930s, underwent a transformation when Simone Caporale and Marc Álvarez of Sips took over operations and relaunched the space in 2022. The martini tradition endures, but the program now carries the same precision and innovation that drives its sister venue. At No. 52 on The 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026 (No. 85 on the 51-100 list in 2025), Boadas bridges nearly a century of Barcelona drinking history with a contemporary approach that respects the room's legacy without being imprisoned by it. Heritage and ambition rarely coexist this comfortably. It currently stands at No. 36 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

FOCO

English bartenders Tom Godfrey and Theo Quinn entered The World's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list at No. 89 in 2025 with a Gràcia bar built on a simple premise: updated classics, no pretension, and drinks that reward attention without demanding it. The Negroni, built with Tanqueray, extra virgin olive oil, orange vermouth, and coriander and mustard seeds, illustrates the approach: familiar architecture, unfamiliar detail. Godfrey describes Foco as a modern interpretation of what a classic bar should be. The judges agree. It sits at No. 90 on The 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026 and No. 48 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Aldea

A cocktail bar in El Born opened by Silvia Dorninger and Fran Falco, who built out the interior themselves around a rural, self-sufficiency theme. The drinks program is farm-to-glass in approach and uses laboratory techniques such as rotary evaporation to extract flavors from produce. The bar also serves Japanese-style sando sandwiches. It currently stands at No. 26 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Dr. Stravinsky

An apothecary aesthetic frames a program centered on in-house fermentation and distillation that placed No. 83 on The World's 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2025. Infusing jars line the walls, lab equipment sits alongside glassware, and the menu divides drinks by production technique rather than flavor profile. The Soil Dry Martini, vodka distilled with actual soil, combined with dry vermouth, captures the philosophy: provocative source material, refined execution. Dr. Stravinsky treats the bar as a research facility, and the results taste like discoveries rather than recipes.

14 de la Rosa

An all-day neighborhood café-bar in Gràcia, 14 de la Rosa runs from specialty coffee in the morning through small plates and natural wines to house cocktails after dark, a local spot that shifts easily from daytime café to evening bar. It sits at No. 35 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Kyara

Monica Berg and Alex Kratena, the duo behind London's Tayēr + Elementary, No. 5 on the World's 50 Best Bars, opened their first Mediterranean venture at SLS Barcelona in June 2025. Named for the highest grade of Japanese aloeswood, Kyara translates fragrance into liquid form through an open-plan Compounding Room filled with ultra-concentrated distillates and aromatic accords. The bespoke Martini diagnosis, a chemistry-based aromatic profile assessment, pushes the cocktail consultation into genuinely new territory. Barcelona gained a villain's lair with some of the best drinks in Europe.

Dry Martini by Javier de las Muelas

Seven consecutive years on the World's 50 Best list and a digital counter tracking more than 1.5 million cocktails served, Javier de las Muelas' Eixample institution operates on scale and specificity simultaneously. Over one hundred martini variations anchor a program that treats the drink as a genre rather than a recipe. The wood-and-leather interior channels English club tradition through a Catalan filter, and The Speakeasy, a hidden restaurant requiring a password, extends the experience into clandestine dining. Dry Martini is the bar Barcelona's industry measures itself against.

Angelita

The Villalón brothers' two-level Calle de la Reina address pairs a street-level wine bar of more than a thousand references with a basement cocktail lounge, where the 'Bebidas Vivas' menu turns plants into twenty gastro-cocktails built on local flavor and sustainability. No.45 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026. It was a Top 4 finalist for Best International Restaurant Bar at the 2026 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards. The bar holds No. 50 on The 50 Best Bars 2026, after No. 51 on the 51-100 list in 2025.

Salmon Guru

Diego Cabrera's Salmon Guru has anchored Calle de Echegaray since 2017, 'storytellers with animal instinct' whose mantra holds that only dead fish go with the flow. A 2023 renovation dialled up the neon and comic-book murals; the list runs from the Pantera Jackson milk punch (pisco, mango water, fish sauce) to the Salmon Guru Airways travel serves. No. 66 on The 50 Best Bars 51-100 list in 2026, after No. 37 in 2025, with sister bars in Dubai and Milan. No reservations, join the queue. It sits at No. 46 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Bar Cock

A classic cocktail bar off the Gran Vía, open since 1921 and long a haunt of Madrid's film and design crowd. Wood panelling, low light and a list of classics.

Devil's Cut

Shingo Gokan's first Madrid venture opened in 2024 in the premises of Casa Pueblo, a forty-year-old neighborhood sherry bar, keeping its curving counter. The list crosses Japanese bartending with Spanish sherry (see the Devil's Bamboo: fino, dry vermouth, tomato), a whole section revives classics from Gokan's Angel's Share days in New York, and the snacks run to dashi olives and miso-marinated anchovies. It won Best New International Cocktail Bar at the 2025 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.

1862 Dry Bar

Alberto Martínez's Malasaña bar takes its name from 1862, the year Jerry Thomas published the first cocktail book, and the room honors that lineage with a subtle speakeasy feel, minimalist decor, an intimate downstairs and one of the city's deep spirits collections. The Cantaloupe Gibson, pisco, cantaloupe, manzanilla, grapefruit bitters, rose water, shows the range.

Savas Bar

A minimalist neighborhood cocktail bar in Lavapiés run by a Lithuanian couple with long bar-industry mileage, Savas keeps its pitch to three words, 'We make cocktails', and delivers classics with quiet twists, like a Negroni Nordico of cranberry vodka, akvavit and Campari.

Punch Room

The Madrid EDITION's intimate punch parlour revives the drink that predates the cocktail, first mixed aboard 17th-century trading ships, through 'Legends & Likes', a two-chapter menu (The Ancients, The Moderns) of archetypal figures, every punch €18. The Emperor runs Toki whisky through Green Chartreuse, pineapple, PX sherry and oolong tea.

Punch Room

The Barcelona EDITION's speakeasy-style lounge pours punches from vintage silver bowls, leaning on Spanish spirits and the drink's history aboard the trade ships that once filled Barcelona's port. There's a Castilian pool table dressed in golden cloth, and Punch & Beats sessions on Fridays. The signature punches, EDITION, Fiery and Midnight, all €17, run from hibiscus gin with jasmine tea to mezcal with padrón and cayenne.

Isa Restaurant & Cocktail Bar

The Four Seasons Hotel Madrid's cocktail flagship blends Asian street-food gastronomy with Mediterranean produce, run by Camille Sirault with head bartender Miguel Pérez. The trophy shelf is crowded: a Spirited Awards Top 10 honor for Best New International Cocktail Bar (2022), Condé Nast Traveler's Best Hotel Cocktail Bar in Spain & Portugal (2024) and FIBAR's Best Hotel Cocktail Bar (2024 and 2025).

El Bar del Majestic

El Bar del Majestic is the lobby bar of the Majestic Hotel & Spa, the hotel on Passeig de Gràcia that opened in 1918. It serves from breakfast to late evening, with a long list of classic cocktails, a few house signatures, gin and tonics, and wines, cava and champagne. The food menu is by consultant chef David Romero, and a pianist plays several evenings a week.

Gebre

Gebre is the ground-floor cocktail bar of the InterContinental Barcelona on the slopes of Montjuic, a long backlit counter set in an art deco room. The signature list is built on aging, with cocktails matured in barrels, glass demijohns and clay jars made for the bar by craftsmen in Miravet, next to classics and more than 200 spirits. The back bar also holds a large collection of Spanish whisky.

Terraza Verbena

The rooftop terrace of the Monument Hotel on Passeig de Gràcia, looking over the Eixample and along the street to Gaudí's Casa Milà.

Atlántico Bar

Atlántico Bar is a cocktail bar on Carrer de Sant Feliu in Palma's old town, behind the old walls. It was first named Texas Jack, a name chosen for the many US marines stationed on ships nearby, and the bar still calls itself the essence of Texas Jack. Inside there is a sweeping bar, and the walls are covered in memorabilia, messages and photographs. The list runs to 40 cocktails, and the house bills its mojito as possibly the best on the island. Seventies and eighties rock sets the tone, and the bar describes itself as authentic, historic and charismatic, with walls that have a history.

Azimuth Rooftop Bar

Azimuth is the eighth floor rooftop bar of Almanac Barcelona on Gran Via, set up as an urban observatory with binoculars trained on the Sagrada Familia, the cathedral and other landmarks. The cocktail list is named after the planets, from a mezcal and blue curacao Neptune to a coffee vodka Mercury, and zodiac sign cocktails join the menu for the night program. Mediterranean bites are served from lunchtime, and tables are not bookable.

Bad Company 1920

Café Madrid

Café Madrid opened in 1940 and is where Valencia's Agua de Valencia cocktail was created, and today it is a cocktail bar inside the MYR Marqués House hotel. The menu mixes classics with signature drinks made with contemporary technique, plus a cocktail tasting menu, a wine list and a rooftop. The original Agua de Valencia is served by the glass or jug, and the bar runs workshops on making it.

Furtivo Rooftop

Furtivo is the rooftop bar on the eighth floor of ME Barcelona on Carrer de Casp, a short walk from Placa de Catalunya, with a terrace and pool looking out over the city towards the Sagrada Familia. The drinks list centers on signature cocktails and mocktails, served with Mediterranean plates for sharing. The hotel runs DJ sets on Friday evenings and live music at Sunday lunchtime on the terrace.

La Santoría Cocktail Bar

La Terraza del EME

La Terraza del EME sits on the roof of the Hotel EME Catedral Mercer, a 16th century building in the Santa Cruz district. The panoramic bar looks straight onto the Cathedral and the Giralda and serves cocktails with a selection of cold local tapas. On Friday and Saturday nights resident DJ Aaron Acevedo plays sessions.

Mirall Bar

Mirall Bar is the cocktail bar of the Nobis Hotel Palma on Carrer de les Caputxines, a hotel housed in an old palace near Sant Jaume; the bar sits on the first floor, in the hotel's lounge. In the 17th and 18th centuries the building was home to wealthy families, and a red painting on an original wall dates back to the 15th century. The room rises to a ceiling height of nine meters, pairing original floor tiles and stone walls with artwork by Philip Smith and two large designer lamps. The cocktail menu is built on local produce and seasonal ingredients, and on Saturday evenings the Somni d'Oasis series brings local DJs into the bar.

Rudi's

A bar at the Marbella Club, the hotel Alfonso von Hohenlohe opened in the 1950s and which made the town.