Where to drink · Barcelona
The Best Gin Bars in Barcelona
Spain takes the gin and tonic more seriously than anywhere on earth, and Barcelona is its spiritual home. Forget a stingy pour in a highball — here the gintonic arrives in a balloon glass the size of a fishbowl, built with a specific gin, a matched tonic, and botanicals chosen to suit. The best gin bars stock hundreds of bottles and employ bartenders who can talk you through every one. Tell them whether you lean citrus, herbal or spiced, and let them build it. These are the rooms that do it properly.
3 bars
Dr. Stravinsky
200+ gins, bartenders who actually know all of them. Serious cocktail bar that can handle a big group without losing its soul.
What to order
Go around the table — everyone picks their own gin, let the bartender pair the tonic.
Sit at the long bar if you want to watch the bartenders work.
Bobby Gin
A Gràcia favourite built entirely around gin, with house infusions, a wall of bottles, and bartenders who treat the gin and tonic as a craft rather than a default. Warm, woody, and unmistakably neighbourhood.
What to order
Tell them your leanings — citrus, herbal, spiced — and let them build the G&T around it.
Ask what they've infused in-house lately; the rotating botanicals are the reason to come.
Dry Martini
The most elegantly worn-in bar in Barcelona. Wood-panelled walls, white-jacketed staff, and a martini trolley that comes to the table. Old-school Barcelona glamour that never tried to be anything else.
What to order
The house martini — cold, stirred, served with ceremony.
Ask for a table in the back room. Darker, quieter, the real atmosphere.
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Common questions
How is a gin and tonic served in Barcelona?
In a large balloon (copa) glass over plenty of ice, with the gin and tonic chosen to match and garnished with botanicals — citrus peel, juniper, herbs or spices — rather than just a wedge of lime.