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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 12 bars and pubs
Best bars and pubs in Barcelona
The 10 most notable bars and pubs in Barcelona, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Restaurante Capricornio
Carrer de Pérez Galdós, 14, 16
356 m from Llefià, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.548, percentile 100 of 12
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2
Torraspapel
Carrer de Llull, 331
133 m from Selva de Mar, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.260, percentile 90.91 of 12
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3
La Cruïlla
Carrer de Sardenya, 256, 260
135 m from Monumental, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.140, percentile 81.82 of 12
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4
Rala 2
Carrer de Sabino Arana, 60
276 m from Maria Cristina, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.130, percentile 72.73 of 12
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5
Taberna del Pony Pisador
Carrer de Consell de Cent, 42
650 m from Barberà del Vallès station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.058, percentile 63.64 of 12
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6
Kiki's Frankfurt Cervesería
Passeig Frederica Montseny, 11
440 m from Montgat Nord station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.019, percentile 54.55 of 12
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7
Bar Kris and Jenn
Via de Sant Oleguer, 31
165 m from Can Llobet station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 0.976, percentile 45.45 of 12
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8
Bar Bona Sort
Carrer de l'Àliga, 28
96 m from Hostafrancs, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.778, percentile 36.36 of 12
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9
Taxman
Passeig de Cordelles, 11
697 m from Cerdanyola del Vallès station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.628, percentile 27.27 of 12
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10
Bar Mutet
Carrer de Feliu i Codina, 53
560 m from Valldaura, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 0.540, percentile 18.18 of 12
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).