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The 7 best vegetarian restaurants in Barcelona

// 7 of 10 vetted Barcelona spots · updated September 2026

A grilled-vegetable plate bolted onto a steakhouse menu is not a vegetarian restaurant. These are the Barcelona kitchens where the meat-free cooking is the reason to goCatalan Market Food, Catalan Seafood Bar and Catalan Bodega among them: 7 spots, 1 of them fully vegan, pulled from the 10 we have vetted in the city. Chosen the way locals choose, never through a marketing budget.

  1. Bar Pinotxo14.9

    Catalan Market Food

    Bar Pinotxo

    Pinotxo is a counter of a dozen stools just inside the Rambla entrance to La Boqueria, and it has been cooking market produce since 1940 — chickpeas with blood sausage, salt cod omelette, cuttlefish, whatever the stalls a few metres away had that morning. It is a breakfast and mid-morning place in the way markets are: the food is at its best while the traders are still working. There is no table service and not much of a menu; you eat what is in the pans in front of you. Around €12 a head, standing or perched, in the middle of the noise.

    Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.

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  2. La Cova Fumada24.8

    Catalan Seafood Bar

    La Cova Fumada

    La Cova Fumada is the Barceloneta bar credited with inventing the bomba — a fried ball of potato and meat under aioli and hot sauce, now served across Barcelona and rarely as well as here. There is no sign on the door, no reservations and no card machine, which has kept the room closer to a fishermen's bar than a destination. Chickpeas, grilled vegetables and whatever the market sent fill out a short menu around it, at roughly €16 a head. Finding the place is part of the exercise: look for the unmarked door near the market on Carrer del Baluard.

    Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.

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  3. No photo available for Bodega Manolo34.7

    Catalan Bodega

    Bodega Manolo

    A bodega in the old sense: barrels along the wall, wine poured by the glass straight from them, and a short list of Catalan things to eat alongside — pa amb tomàquet, anchovies, cheese, conserves. Bodega Manolo has held its corner of Torrent de l'Olla in Gràcia since the 1970s, and a good part of the custom has come with it. Meat-free plates make up much of the tapas list, so it works for vegetarians as readily as for anyone after a glass of house red. Around €15 buys a proper graze. Gràcia is full of bars; this one predates the fashion.

    Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.

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  4. El Xampanyet44.7

    Catalan Tapas

    El Xampanyet

    Carrer de Montcada is the medieval street that leads to the Picasso Museum, and El Xampanyet has been on it since 1929 — tiled walls, a zinc bar, house cava poured cloudy and cold. Anchovies from L'Escala are the thing to order, alongside conserves, cheese and simple Catalan tapas eaten standing, because there is barely anywhere to sit. Tortilla and vegetable plates cover anyone not eating fish, and around €14 sees you through. Regulars have been coming for decades, and the bar has resisted every temptation to modernise around them.

    Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.

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  5. No photo available for Cervecería Catalana54.7

    Catalan Tapas Bar

    Cervecería Catalana

    Cervecería Catalana is an Eixample tapas bar that runs at volume: a long counter stacked with plates, a kitchen turning out patatas bravas, jamón croquetas and pa amb tomàquet without pause, and a terrace on the pavement outside. Vegetarian tapas are properly represented, which is not always the case in a bar built around ham, and around €18 a head covers a full spread. Its reputation means the room fills fast and stays full — arriving at the start of service, or booking, is the difference between eating and waiting on the street.

    Terrace: There is outdoor seating for warmer days.

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  6. Bodega Sepúlveda64.6

    Catalan Wine Bar

    Bodega Sepúlveda

    Bodega Sepúlveda is a Barcelona wine bar of the old school — a room that was never redecorated to keep pace with anything and does not appear to need it. The list runs to Catalan bottles and natural wines, the food is small plates, and a good share of them are vegetarian. The tortilla is the dish people wait for. Around €15 covers wine and a couple of plates, which makes it a bar for a long first drink rather than a destination dinner.

    Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.

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  7. No photo available for Aguaribay7

    Regional

    Aguaribay

    Vegan

    On Carrer del Taulat in Poblenou, Aguaribay cooks vegetarian and vegan food with the patience of a kitchen that makes its own staples. The tempeh and the seitan are produced in house, whole grains and legumes carry the plates rather than garnish them, and the desserts are made on site too. The cooking borrows freely from several vegetarian traditions instead of settling into one national label, which is why the daily plates rarely repeat themselves. It is one address only, a sit-down dining room where tables are worth reserving and where groups are accommodated without the food turning into catering. Main dishes land around eighteen euros, ordered from the card.

    Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.

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