Barcelona’s cuisine are good in quality, as its being a highly tourist city one can have good food over here on a very reasonable prices in a friendly and courteous environment.   The golden rule of thumb says save money and get better food also applies to restaurants in Barcelona.  Some of the most popular restaurant in Barcelona is as following:

•    Govinda: Situated hardly two minutes away from the Rambla, this restaurant only serves vegetarian food. Here food is mostly of Indian cuisine and even is very delicious and tasty. t

•    Veg World: This restaurant situated on the left side of the street only serves vegetarian food and most of them there are vegetarian and Indian dishes. This is the only spot in Barcelona where you can have Masala Dosa.

•    Vegetalia: This offers tasty excellent organic vegetarian foods, as a compliment to the restaurant there’s a store carries the full range of Vegetalia products as well as other well-sourced organic foods. All staff to eat here is provided on very reasonable prices.

•    La Flauta Carrer Aribau: This is a favorite spot for local business that comes over here to dine during the week. Here ever changing menu Del dia costs around ten eruo and you can have delicious Catalan cuisine over here that is well prepared and well presented. The Crema Catalana is similar to a creme brulee and makes an excellent choice for dessert.

•   Orgànic on C/ Junta Comerç: It is a bit expensive restaurant and is worth its cost as it charges from the customers. Whether you’re vegetarian/vegan or not, this kitchen is organic and here food is best and of high quality. Here Not a quick eat, but a nice sit down to good food meal. The service is friendly and down to earth and funny.

•    Batik Restaurant: It is an Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai food that is merely a 3 minutes e walk from La Sagrada Familia and therefore it is an ideal place to spare out an afternoon.  To reach there from La Sagrada Familia you rather need to go head down “Calle Marina” and turn left onto “Calle Valéncia”. You can even try Batik Restaurant that is on the right hand side of the street.

•    Alkimia: It is Barcelona’s most highly regarded restaurants as is run by acclaimed restauranter Jordi Vilà. It has a minimalist white interior that directs the attention to the inventive and indulgent foods that are there on the offer. Alkimia spearheads a new wave of new Catalan cooking that can delights as well as exuberates a dinner at the restaurant.

•  Gaig, Aragó: The restaurant has well established reputation for serving the freshest produce around. It focuses on the classical Catalan cuisine but is not as advance and sale products in rather interesting and lighter vein. Its décor is in a contemporary red and black design and there staff is quite friendly and welcoming.

•    Cinc Sentits, Aribau: This is one of the latest restaurants that were founded around in 2004 and passed off all the expectations and it is of a few restaurants in Barcelona to offer a wine paring, it features contemporary Catalan cuisines in a present day modern warmer interior.

Some of the most popular Bars in Barcelona

•    La Paloma: It is a very popular night club and remains to massively be crowded on nights and mostly by young and beautiful

•    London Bar: It primarily is a bar and is in service since 1910 and be regularly visited by the celebrities like Dali, Picasso and Hemingway. The atmosphere there remains to be quite lively and friendly, and is a great spot for just to enjoy things as it is even not that expensive.

•    La Concha: Situated close to Carrer Nou de la Rambla on Carrer de Guàrdia, is a bohemian style in the wall hookah bar. It talks of moroccan gay bar feel, but there can be seen a mixed crowd of around 20 and 30 sipping cocktails and smoking shisha. It is for a tourist that is looking for a bit local adventure.

•    Razzmatazz: Close to Marina station, this club undoubtedly is the best bar in Barcelona. It is formed of many rooms of which every one plays a different style of music including pop, retro, house and trance. This club is the peak of Barcelona nightlife, loved by both the visitors AND the Catalans.

•    Sutton: Situated on Diagonal, this club hosts Studio 54 on Thursdays. In case you love House or Techno music this is a must. It remain open until the metro starts back up, Sutton there has a very huge dance floor with two VIP rooms. It also is a small stage where multiple go-go dancers perform throughout the night.

•    Catwalk: It is one of the most popular nightclubs in the city the peak time being around 2AM. They provide 2 different floors with R&B and hip-hop styles mixed with House or Techno.

•    Maumau: It is a chilled out lounge bar having groovy tunes which uses its space to host out and adventure short film nights, installations and concerts. At its web page you can view list of entire upcoming events and shows in Barcelona.

For a convenient and enjoyable journey of the city of Barcelona, you can avail facilities of Connect Club Discount Card. The card offers a good number of discounts and special privileges at Barcelona’s best nightclubs, bars, famous restaurants and more.

In Barcelona, one can roam and move through various shopping areas that are specifically popular for specialties and goods.   The most elegant shopping places in the Barcelona are Passeig de Gracia, the Rambla de Catalunya, Avingunda Diagonal and around Turó Park. In the city Santa Eulalia, Jofré, Comella and Bua are best known and are very popular luxury boutiques and antiques shops. Apart from that there are also a good number of shops and market in Barcelona, which are reviewed, quite, systematically.

• La Central del Raval is a famous book store over there that is known for huge selection of books on art, architecture and design.

• El Corte Inglés: This is a famous departmental store in a city that spans around several floors and several buildings in several locations around town as you can get everything at this departmental store, from gastronomy to pneumatics. There Tax return checks are made on a separate floor on the store for whatever purchase and requirement over there.

• Fnac: It is an EI Triangle shopping center in Plaza Catalunya that sells books, music, games and many other interesting items and goods.

• Maremagnum: It is a very popular shopping mall by the coast at the end of The Ramblas. This is the only shopping mall in the city that even opens on Sunday and public holidays. The clothes and other fashion accessories at the mall are from big brand names and there hardly is any independent designers are there who operates out at the scene.

• Kelkom: Situated between the Bruc and Girona Street it is a popular shop of gift and accessories as one can find out there necklaces, earrings, bracelets, shirts, bags, clocks, gifts and many things more, at different price range and styles.

Shops and Market for Food

• La Boqueria: It is a large public market having a good range of products and services at its disposal to be shared and disposed away around. There one can enjoy freshly squeezed organic fruit juices.

• Cacao Sampaka: It is a famous Chocolate factory or chocolate lovers. There exits a Chocolate Museum in Carrer Comerç, 36. There many sculptures made of chocolate on display in the museum.

• Happy Pills: It is a quite interesting candy store situated next to the Cathedral Square and is famous for packing up candy in manner resembling to packaging products and goods in plastic medication bottles or first aid kits.

Souvenirs and Gift Items Shops

• Art Montfalcon: It is considered as to be the largest souvenir shop in Barcelona spread around in an area around 1000 sq. m. This is not an ordinary souvenir-shop rather it provides good choice for creative and artistic souvenirs, watches, plates, jewelry, mugs. There are also provided creative mechanical toys and spiders, etc.

• Another good shop for souvenir goods item is Carrer Bisbe that sells craft that includes miniature versions of the dracs (dragons) and gigants (giants) which features Catalan processions and fiestas. El Ingenio, in Carrer Raurich, sales out the real ones and is worth a visit just to look.  More you can buy confetti, jokes, rubber snakes and other amusements items there.

• Wawas Barcelona: It is nearly a true and innovative souvenir shop that features its own line of postcards, magnets, mugs and trays, and most of them happen to be the artistic image of Barcelona. It also offers chocolate bars by Xocoa, and it offers the most renowned chocolatiers in Barcelona that is wrapped in a photo of the city. Wawas do also sells guidebooks, and has a selection of products and gifts.

However, you need to be wary about the souvenir shops spread all around Barri Gotic and all along La Rambla as they happen to be the tourist’s traps and hardly any of those shops sells out Catalan or Spanish products and they happen to be mix of Chinese general souvenirs and they should be avoided.

Clothes, shoes and accessories shopping in Barcelona

• Bolsos Turo: Pilar Guardia Located in the Sant Antoni neighbourhood, at 10 min from Ramblas and Plaza de Universitat you will find this Spanish Leather Bags and Accessories shop. Calle Manso 76 (Cornering Ronda Sant Pau). Metro L2 Sant Antoni or L3 Poble Sec. Bolsos Turo is a shop for affordable and fashionnable leather handbags, suitcases, travel bags, leather belts and more.

• Kelkom Barrio de Gracia: This is a Gift shop and accessories there one can get everything from jewellery, shirts, handbags, watches, gifts and other items different styles and prices.

• Juan-Jo Gallery: It is a Fashion leather, Jaquets, bags, hats and complements designed that is in Barcelona with Spanish leather.

• Camper, multiple locations: This is Standalone store at El Triangle shopping center at Placa de Catalunya and has widest number of choices for buying clothes and accessories.

Barcelona has a good range of attractions and variety for tourists, who are visiting the cities.  Moreover, there is too much in Barcelona to be discovered and to be explored out. There is all for a tourists surprise in city, ranging from the artistic monuments, impressive architectures, world heritage sites and more. Below are briefed some exciting places to be visited in Barcelona.

•    Barri Gotic: The Barcelona Barri Gotic area has also reputation of being the Gothic Quarter and is situated at the area where old town of Barcelona too is located. In the outer area of Barri Gotic streets vary in style, however, at the old quarter it has narrow cobbled streets with tall old buildings. The reputation of the area itself is established from the fact during 1895 to 1904 Picasso lived and worked in Barri Gotic and Joan Miro also born and lived here during his youth. It is located on the right hand side of the La Rambla as we look toward Placa de Catalunya.

•    Barcelona FC: Barcelona football stadium is the 3rd largest football stadium in the World after the stadiums in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City. Barcelona Camp Nou. It has capacity of around 110,000 and it remains filled during most of the matches.  This shows the passion of citizens of Barcelona for the game of Football.

•    El Born: Meaning- Just Born- this place has come up in Barcelona as a trendy area with stylish bars, cafes and restaurants that has its own unique atmosphere to enjoy and taste. It definitely has old town architecture with a “new town” feel and its combination in area of Barcelona provides an irresistible appeal to the place.

•   Magic Fountain of Montjuic: The magic fountain of Montjuïc’s first, was a performance held at on May 19, 1929 during the Great Universal Exhibition. The designer Carles Buigas submitted his plans one year before the exhibition. Around 3000 workers used their skills on the project and it was even before a year that fountain was developed out. This fountain is an outstanding show of colour, light, motion, music and water acrobatics.

•   Beach Barceloneta: It is the closest beach to Barcelona city centre. If you walk to Colom at the end of the Ramblas you would merely take 15 minutes to reach the beach. Barceloneta has famous sea food restaurants which serves fresh food even catch on the very day.  Barceloneta beach even get immensely busy during the peak season and let you to visit the Icaria Beach that is a next beach along from Barceloneta.

• Calle Ferran: It is a renowned street in Barcelona. The beauty of the street lies in being having some good quality bars, restaurants and shops that connect the Ramblas to both places Placa Sant Jaume and Via Laietana. Calle Ferran also has a small passage way 20 meters on the right hand side from the Ramblas into Placa Reial

•  Cathedral – (Catedral): The giant Gothic Barcelona Cathedral is a main center of attraction in Barcelona in the Gothic quarter. Barcelona Cathedral is situated at the old town and around the Cathedral. There you can view many amazing example of Gothic architecture and Roman walls. Location of Catedral to the nearest metro stop. In front of the Cathedral there is situated a small square, where you can have street performers, cafes and interesting shops. The area around the Cathedral is so appealing that it attracts you to visit the city again and again.

•  Park Ciutadella: It is a charming and welcoming park at a green space at the heart of Barcelona. The park has water exhibits like a beautiful fountain and small lake along with lots of grass to lie down and enjoy the warm sunshine. There exists a very great spot for relaxation, a walk or enjoyment for kids to burn off their energies.

•  Colom: The Barcelona Colom monument is a memorial in remembrance of great explorer Christopher Columbus. You will get Barcelona Colon at the very southern end of the Ramblas that is very close to the Eurostars Grand marina hotel. This hotel adds to the beauty of the memorial and is located in a situation to explore the city.

•   Olympic Stadium: The Olympic Stadium was the venue for the 1992 Olympic Games were organized ran from July 26 to August 21 of that year. Presently,   Barcelona Olympic stadium is open for visitors to take a look around and look at the places where alt the action happened in 1992.

•   Passieg de Gracia: It is a part of   5 KM long shopping line and is an important street in Barcelona. The wide boulevards on either side of Passeig de Gràcia add to the expression of richness provided by the road. It is also home to the Gaudi’s most important creations for ever- La Pedrera and Casa Batlló.

•   Placa Espanya: It is a central transport hub in Barcelona and is also a starting point to visit The Magic Fountain of Montjuïc, Museu Nacional d’Art Catalunya de Montjuïc (MNAC) and the Olympic Stadium. All of them are quite interesting and attractive places to visit and are well connected from here.

•  Placa de Jaume: It is a square in the city where regional government headquarters are based. On Sunday afternoons there one can have Sardana dancing performances as performed in a slow, circular, traditional dance method by Catalan people.

•    Placa Reial: It is the most famous square just away from the Ramblas. It’s a social center of attraction during night and is mostly paced with Barcelonian’s and tourists. As they are soaking up the atmosphere and having enjoyment of food or drinks at one of the restaurants or bars around the square.

•    Placa de Catalunya: It has reputation of very central point of Barcelona with respect to being as a transportation hub.  It has a very big central square and is abounded with fountains, sculptures and grass verges. It is a welcome oasis of green in very heart of the city.   During festival times there occur live musical performances in Placa de Catalunya and the square in presence of packed onlookers. Around the square there are located large department stores involving El Corte Ingles, FNAC and Habitat.

•   Las Ramblas: It is a 1.2 Km walkway through the very heart of the city centre. There you can view all sorts of stalls, restaurants, bars and street performers.  Las Ramblas spreads from Monument a Colom in the south to Placa de Catalunya in the North and there many important streets beguns from there.

Barcelona is referred to as the second capital of Spain, Madrid being the first. It is in Barcelona where you will find Catalunya which is a region on the northern part of Spain that you will find with two tribes having their own traditions, language and cuisine that is distinct from the rest of the country. The Catalanyans are proud of their heritage and for this reason they have retained it all through history. This fantastic blend of different languages and culture makes Barcelona a tremendous place to visit.

Barcelona city is full of culture, harmony and style making, it a fabulous place to pay a visit. The city perfectly meets the desires of the modern world while still maintaining the old culture. There has been a lot of thought involved in the maintenance of the city centers beauty, while still ensuring excellent facilities to cater for both the community and the business world. In Barcelona, you will literally witness the integration of the old and modern world unlike most European cities that have a major clash between the two cultures. As you stroll down the city streets, you can feel how the new edifices have developed and integrated with the old architecture.

Many great painters and artists notably Picasso and Miró worked in this city in the earlier ages and their work can still be seen all through the city. There are museums dedicated to their work that are located within Barcelona city. Apart from these, there are other museum and art galleries that the lovers of art will find quite interesting whilst in the city.

In the city, developer’s minds maintaining harmony is first in mind and not the aesthetics, this is what has led to this successful integration. Barcelona city’s location is magnificent with a 4.2-kilometer beach walk and its central European location means that you can fly to it from literally any location in Europe within just two hours. If you are planning to stay in Barcelona for longer than two weeks then you should take time to visit some of the surrounding areas of Barcelona. The French Pyrenees are just two hours drive away from the city centre. For the wine lovers the vineyards are a drive north of the city where you will experience great wines and the viniculture.

When you feel, you need to relax and unwind you can stroll to the beach a few walks away and here you can sample one of the best seafood the Mediterranean cuisine has to offer.