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Best Paella
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Best Seafood
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Contemporary Catalan · Eixample
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Rafa Zafra opens Masia Tibidabo, the highest restaurant in Barcelona
4 June 2026
Masia Tibidabo opened on 4 June 2026 in the Tibidabo park's restored 1901 farmhouse, 500 metres up with the whole city below. Rafa Zafra of Estimar and Amar designed the Catalan sharing menu; lunch only, Wednesday to Sunday, around €45 a head.
The Oxte chefs are coming to Barcelona, and Quirat serves the first taste on 18 June
Coming 18 June 2026
Enrique Casarrubias and Mon Estrada, the chefs behind Michelin-starred Oxte in Paris, open Papalote on Avinguda Diagonal after summer 2026. The preview: a €140 four-hands with Víctor Torres at Quirat on 18 June.
Three farms in the Pre-Pyrenees feed most of Barcelona's Sourced Gold kitchens
5 June 2026
Three small farms in the eastern Catalan Pre-Pyrenees keep showing up on Barcelona's most rigorously sustainable menus. Cal Tomàs in La Pobla de Segur feeds three Sourced Gold restaurants. Cal Fusteret in Sant Fruitós de Bages feeds two. Salt del Colom in L'Espunyola supplies Gatblau in Gràcia. When the same producer turns up at multiple top kitchens, that's the strongest signal there is that a restaurant's sourcing claims are real.
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Upcoming Food Events in Barcelona
Sopars amb Estrelles
Select evenings (Tuesday to Sunday) throughout summer, from 29 May to 4 October · 8:30pm–11:30pm
Sopars amb Estrelles is a summer-long dinner-and-stargazing series at the Observatori Fabra on Tibidabo, operated by Sternalia and running select evenings Tuesday to Sunday from 29 May to 4 October 2026. An evening starts with check-in and a welcome drink at 20:15, dinner on the open-air terrace from 20:30, a roughly 30-minute scientific lecture (in Catalan or Spanish) at 21:45, then a guided visit through the modernist museum hall and the great dome — where you observe through the observatory's 1904 Mailhat refractor — wrapping up around 23:30. Dinner is booked by menu tier: Observatori (€84), Fabra (€92), de les Estrelles (€106) or Gourmet (€126), with a vegetarian menu (€84) and a children's menu for ages 2–12 (€42; under-2s free, 13+ pay adult rates). Each tier offers a dessert cake and cava for a few euros more. Every menu includes the welcome drink, a multi-course dinner, wine, beer, soft drinks, water and coffee, plus the lecture and the full guided museum-and-telescope programme. The Observatori Fabra sits about 400m up Tibidabo with views over the Barcelona skyline — one of the oldest still-working observatories in the world, founded in 1904. If skies are cloudy the dinner still goes ahead, with an audiovisual programme on the observatory's asteroid-and-comet research standing in for live telescope viewing.
Les Nits de Barcelona
Select evenings throughout summer · 8pm–12am
Les Nits de Barcelona 2026 (rebranded for sponsorship as Les Nits Occident) is the annual summer concert series in the Jardins del Palau de Pedralbes, running from 26 June to 21 July 2026. Confirmed 2026 lineup includes Sting (7 July), Vanesa Martín (10 July), Silvana Estrada (12 July), Il Volo (15 July), Las Migas (16 July), Rosario (17 July), Diana Krall (19 July), plus Raphael, MIKA, Zaz, Taburete, Judit Neddermann and more across the four-week run. Tickets went on sale 15 December 2025 via the official Les Nits Occident site. Beyond the concerts, El Village area opens before each show with pop-up dining from some of Barcelona's best restaurants, curated wine and cocktail bars, and a performing arts and design programme, so a Nits de Barcelona evening typically begins around 19:30 with food and ends after the encore. The Jardins del Palau de Pedralbes (8 hectares of formal gardens off Diagonal) hold roughly 2,000 seated guests per night, smaller and more intimate than the city's stadium shows, which is the entire point of the format.
Festa de la Verema d'Alella
Thu 3 Sept – Thu 10 Sept · 10am–11pm
52nd edition of Catalunya's longest-running grape harvest festival in DO Alella, the smallest DO in Spain. Eight days of grape-stomping, winery open doors, sommelier-led DO Alella tastings, must blessing, popular meals among the vines, jazz nights at the cellars, and traditional cobla-and-sardana dancing in the village square. Tastings and dining packs sell out early.