# Best New Restaurant Openings in Barcelona (2026) > The best new restaurant openings in Barcelona, all opened in the last year or so. Chef-led debuts, neo-bistros and natural-wine rooms across Eixample, El Born, Raval and Gràcia. Updated June 2026. - **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/new-openings - **City:** Barcelona, Spain - **Published:** 2026-06-20 - **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder - **Reading time:** 13 min ## Introduction This is the list I send friends when they ask what just opened in Barcelona. Not the places everyone's been going to for five years, the genuinely new ones, opened in roughly the last twelve to eighteen months, where the paint still feels fresh and the kitchen is figuring out exactly who it wants to be. Every spot here carries a real opening date and at least one good reason to go beyond the novelty. You'll notice a heavy lean toward the Eixample, that's where most of the interesting chef-led debuts have landed this cycle, but El Born, Raval, Gràcia and Poblenou all show up too. A quick warning, this kind of list goes stale fast. What's new today gets folded into the cuisine guides next year, so we re-check it often and bump the date when we do. ## A guide to New Openings in Barcelona ### What counts as a 'new' opening here? We keep this strict. A spot only makes the list if it opened within roughly the last twelve to eighteen months and the opening date traces to a real source. Places that opened in 2024 have aged out and moved on to the relevant cuisine or neighbourhood guides. We also leave out anything that hasn't actually opened yet, no matter how much buzz surrounds it, because a venue with no track record can still slip its date or open differently than promised. The gate is the opening date and the cooking, not the hype. ### Why are so many of these chef-led second projects? A pattern runs through Barcelona's current opening wave: established chefs and groups launching a more casual, more personal second room. You'll see it again and again here, an informal sister to a fine-dining flagship, a neighbourhood diner from the team behind a celebrated wine bar, a relaxed gastrobar on the ground floor of a starred hotel restaurant. The format lets a kitchen do looser, sharing-style cooking at a lower price point while keeping the technique that made the original worth knowing. It's one of the more reliable signals that a new place is worth booking. ### How new restaurants are priced in Barcelona New openings span a wide range. Casual neo-bistros and natural-wine rooms here run small plates you order several of, often landing around €30 to €50 a head. Chef-led tasting-menu debuts climb higher, with evening menus reaching €80 to €130 before wine. A handful sit in between with à la carte mains in the teens and twenties. Price isn't the gate for this list, a sharp neighbourhood diner earns its spot as readily as an ambitious counter, but it helps to know roughly where each kitchen sits before you book. > "These are the rooms locals are actually texting each other about right now." ## How we built this list This list is built on confirmed recent openings, each carrying a sourced opening date within roughly the last year and a half, then ordered by how notable the opening is: the pedigree of the team, the freshness of the date, and how much the place has earned its early reputation. Because these kitchens are so new, standard rating volumes are thin and unreliable, so we lean on recency and the substance of the opening rather than star counts. We re-verify every entry is still open, drop anything that's crossed the eighteen-month line, and promote the freshest credible arrivals as they prove themselves. No restaurant pays for placement and Guidavera has no affiliate or sponsorship relationships with any venue featured here. ## The 13 best New Restaurants, compared | # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [Mineral](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/mineral) | L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample | €€€ | — | Turbot, ganxet beans and black pepper sauce | | 2 | [Trü](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/tru) | l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample | €€ | — | Grilled cabbage sprouts with green romesco sauce | | 3 | [Arraval](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/arraval) | el Raval | €€ | — | Escudella pilota with french fries | | 4 | [Barra Oso](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/barra-oso) | Sant Gervasi - Galvany | €€ | — | Katsusando de "cap i pota" | | 5 | [Bar Super](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/bar-super) | Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera (El Born) | €€ | — | Red prawn carpaccio / puffed quinoa / cilantro | | 6 | [Melós](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/melos) | la Dreta de l'Eixample | €€€€ | — | Menú Il·lustrat (weekday lunch, 5 courses) | | 7 | [Casa Fiero](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/casa-fiero) | l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample | €€ | — | 'Rostit' macaroni with three types of meat gratinéed with cheese | | 8 | [Finorri](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/finorri) | el Barri Gòtic | €€ | — | Arroz de Pals con pescado, sepia y gamba roja | | 9 | [Pompa](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/pompa) | la Vila de Gràcia | €€€ | — | Two artichokes with egg yolk and truffle | | 10 | [Chambacú](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/chambacu) | l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample | €€ | — | Menú Chambacú (six-course tasting) | | 11 | [Bera](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/bera) | la Dreta de l'Eixample | €€ | — | Bokata Martintxo by MB, Galician beef sirloin with sardine cream | | 12 | [El Rectangle](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/el-rectangle) | Sant Antoni | €€€ | — | Maitake, Hummus, Almond | | 13 | [Bornés](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/bornes) | Santa Caterina | €€ | — | Dry Tray-Baked Rice with Red Prawn & Saffron Alioli | ## The 13 best New Restaurants in Barcelona ### 1. Mineral *Counter-seat contemporary Catalan from a serious chef team* - **Neighbourhood:** L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de Mallorca, 166, 08036 - **Price:** €€€ - **Website:** https://www.mineralbcn.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/mineral Mineral is the kind of opening that makes the food crowd sit up. It's a small, counter-style room in the left Eixample where you sit facing the kitchen and watch the cooking happen, contemporary Catalan that reworks the region's produce in a current register. The carta is built for grazing: anchovy and olive bites, Gavà asparagus with ham velouté, turbot with ganxet beans and black pepper, Delta black rice with baby cuttlefish. Reckon on around €60 a head before wine, and the wine list is a genuine focus, run with real intent. It's intimate, a bit dim, very much a destination rather than a casual drop-in. Book ahead, the room is tiny. **Order:** - Turbot, ganxet beans and black pepper sauce (21) - Delta black rice with baby cuttlefish (18) - Gavà asparagus, broad beans and ham velouté (13) ### 2. Trü *Artur Martínez's informal Catalan tavern, sister to Aürt* - **Neighbourhood:** l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de Còrsega, 232, Eixample, 08036 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://trubarcelona.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/tru Trü is chef Artur Martínez's everyday project, the looser sister to his Aürt while that restaurant takes a new shape. It sits on a corner of Carrer de Còrsega in the Eixample and runs Catalan tradition through modern technique, all built for sharing. The menu is a joy to graze through: pa amb tomàquet, roasted cauliflower with Ros cheese almadroc, grilled cabbage sprouts with green romesco, a rustic omelette in capipota sauce, smoked veal sweetbreads. There's a vegetable-led slant, a 'beyond natural wine' list of in-house ferments, and a cheese course from small Catalan producers. Plates run roughly €3 to €25, so order several. It's relaxed, good value, and genuinely fun to eat at. **Order:** - Grilled cabbage sprouts with green romesco sauce (€15) - Rustic-style omelette in capipota sauce (€16) - Smoked veal sweetbreads with sprouts (€21) ### 3. Arraval *Catalan market cooking from a Jordi Vilà-trained team in Raval* - **Neighbourhood:** el Raval - **Address:** Marquès de Barberà, 22, 08001 Barcelona (El Raval) - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://majestichotelgroup.com/en/barcelona/hotel-casa-teva/gastronomy/restaurant - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/arraval Arraval is the most-cited recent opening in town, and it earns the attention. Tucked into Hotel Casa Teva on Carrer del Marquès de Barberà in the Raval, it's run by three chefs, Àlex, Marcos and Jordi, who all trained in Jordi Vilà's school, and the cooking pays homage to that lineage while rooting itself in the neighbourhood's restless energy. The kitchen describes itself as guided by fire, frying, spices and memory, pulling produce from La Boqueria and Barceloneta. The signatures are proper Catalan comfort: the cup of escudella broth, the onion soup bikini, cod esqueixada with jalapeño, and the escudella pilota with french fries. À la carte runs roughly €26 to €50 a head. Quiet, understated, built for lingering. **Order:** - Escudella pilota with french fries (€18) - Cod esqueixada, onion cop de puny, green beans, jalapeño (€15) - Stewed tuna cheek with potato, picada and neighbourhood herbs (€24) ### 4. Barra Oso *Market-driven sharing plates with vinyl in Sant Gervasi* - **Neighbourhood:** Sant Gervasi - Galvany - **Address:** Muntaner, 248, 08021 Barcelona (Sarrià-St. Gervasi) - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://www.barraoso.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/barra-oso Barra Oso brought a bit of downtown energy to the leafy upper reaches of Sant Gervasi. It's a market-driven kitchen on Muntaner, candlelit, with wooden tables and a ten-seat bar, built around original shareable plates and the occasional vinyl session during service. There's no fixed menu, the kitchen cooks around what the market delivers, but recent plates have included gildas, oysters dressed with piparra, a katsusando of cap i pota, coastal monkfish with rebozuelos, and a steak tartare of aged beef. Reckon on €26 to €50 a head. It runs late on Fridays and Saturdays, which makes it a rare proper dinner option in a neighbourhood that usually winds down early. **Order:** - Katsusando de "cap i pota" - Rape de costa, rebozuelos - Steak tartar de vaca madurada ### 5. Bar Super *Natural wine and Italian-Catalan market plates by Santa Caterina* - **Neighbourhood:** Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera (El Born) - **Address:** Plaça de Santa Caterina, 3, 08003 Barcelona - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://barsuper.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/bar-super Bar Super is the natural-wine room everyone in the know got excited about. It sits right by the Santa Caterina market in El Born, and the kitchen cooks Italian-Catalan market plates around whatever crosses the road from the stalls that morning. The menu shifts constantly, but you might find a red prawn carpaccio with puffed quinoa, grilled green beans with almond mayonnaise and pesto, eggplant in carrozza, or grilled monkfish with gazpacho and oregano oil. The wine list runs low-intervention and minimal, chosen with the same care as the produce. It's a long-counter setup with seats facing the kitchen, equally good for a long lunch, an after-work glass, or dinner with friends. **Order:** - Red prawn carpaccio / puffed quinoa / cilantro (19 €) - Grilled monkfish / gazpacho / oregano oil (22 €) - Grilled green beans / almond mayonnaise / pesto / walnuts (13 €) ### 6. Melós *Chef Miquel Pardo's first tasting-menu restaurant under his own name* - **Neighbourhood:** la Dreta de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de Mallorca, 303, 08037 Barcelona - **Price:** €€€€ - **Website:** https://www.melosrestaurant.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/melos Melós is chef Miquel Pardo's first restaurant under his own name, a tasting-menu room on Carrer de Mallorca in the Dreta de l'Eixample. It opened late 2025 and got serious attention straight away. The format is three evening menus plus a weekday lunch, all built from the same creative Catalan repertoire: a two-part quail course ('Quail: Life' and 'Quail: Death'), maitake with eel, a skatefish casserole, Pardo's own reinterpretation of paella, and a dessert of tiger nut mole with fartons. The weekday-lunch Menú Il·lustrat is €45 for five courses, while the evening menus run €80, €100 and €130. It's elegant and personal, with a wine list that's central to the whole thing. Reservations essential, the room is small. **Order:** - Menú Il·lustrat (weekday lunch, 5 courses) (€45) - Melós (10 courses) (€100) - Gran Melós (13 courses) (€130) ### 7. Casa Fiero *A 1970s Catalan diner throwback from the Maleducat team* - **Neighbourhood:** l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de Londres, 89, 08036 Barcelona - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://www.casafiero.es - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/casa-fiero Casa Fiero is the younger sibling of Maleducat, and it leans hard into a 1970s Catalan diner aesthetic, warm, lively, and packed with neighbourhood regulars on a random Tuesday. The kitchen takes the city's current grandma-food moment and pushes it to maximum effect, French bistro staples fused with upscale Catalan tapas. The signature is a gratinated macaroni stuffed with three cuts of meat, cheeks, tendons and brisket, under béchamel and cheese. The steak tartare with smoked egg yolk is the other one to order. Cocktails are taken as seriously as the food, with a properly built drinks list alongside the wine. Average spend lands around €45 a head before drinks, and it runs late, dinner until 00:30. Book ahead, it fills fast. **Order:** - 'Rostit' macaroni with three types of meat gratinéed with cheese (€16) - 'Cal Tomàs' ecobeef steak tartar, chipotle chili and smoked egg yolk (€21) - Cod fritters with Iberian ham mayonnaise (€14) ### 8. Finorri *Brasa-led Catalan bistró facing the Boqueria with Paradiso cocktails* - **Neighbourhood:** el Barri Gòtic - **Address:** Carrer de la Boqueria, 23, 08002 Barcelona - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://finorri.es - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/finorri Finorri sits right across from the Boqueria on Carrer de la Boqueria, and it's a smart Catalan bistró that punches well above its tourist-zone address. The kitchen works seasonal market produce with a dedicated brasa programme it treats as the signature, charcoal-grilled fish and meat, plus a strong line in spoon dishes and rice. Think macarrones Finorri, a Pals rice with fish, cuttlefish and red prawn, rodaballo with beetroot romesco, and the meatballs with monkfish cheeks that have become a house classic. The marble bar runs an author cocktail programme developed with Grupo Confitería, the team behind Paradiso. Average spend is around €40 a head before drinks. Warm, elegant, walk-in friendly, and open daily. **Order:** - Arroz de Pals con pescado, sepia y gamba roja (€24.50) - Albóndigas con carrilleras de rape (€24.50) - Macarrones Finorri (€18.00) ### 9. Pompa *A wine-led cellar and kitchen, sister to Berbena, in Gràcia* - **Neighbourhood:** la Vila de Gràcia - **Address:** Sèneca, 25, 08006 Barcelona (Gràcia) - **Price:** €€€ - **Website:** https://www.pompabcn.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/pompa Pompa is a compact cellar-and-kitchen on Sèneca in Gràcia, run as a sister to Berbena, and it's unusually strict about what it is: a restaurant built around wine first. There are just two nightly seatings, a single Friday lunch, no beer or cocktails or soft drinks, and a list running past 600 references. The kitchen writes a short seasonal carta that changes monthly, leaning on small plates, cured and raw products and a handful of hot dishes, skate wing rillette, grilled duck hearts, two artichokes with egg yolk and truffle, monkfish pil pil, and a 'fuck yeah' guinea fowl with carrots and vi ranci. There's a resident dog named Nora. Expect €50 to €100 a head. Booking is required and a card holds the table. **Order:** - Two artichokes with egg yolk and truffle (€29) - 'Fuck yeah' guinea fowl with carrots and vi ranci (€32) - Monkfish pil pil (€31) ### 10. Chambacú *Colombian-rooted Latin American cooking across three spaces* - **Neighbourhood:** l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de Muntaner, 185, 08036 Barcelona - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://www.chambacurestaurant.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/chambacu Chambacú is one of the most distinctive openings of the cycle, a Colombian-rooted Latin American restaurant on Carrer de Muntaner that splits across three spaces: El Patio, an open courtyard; Candela, a cocktail-and-street-food counter; and Memoria, the intimate room where the tasting menus are served. Chef Santiago Sánchez Arango, who has cooked at Mugaritz and Arrea, draws on pre-Columbian technique, West African traditions and the contemporary cooking of Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Venezuela. The à la carte runs ostra with smoked aguachile, a trilogía de maíz, pescado a la talla with tamal, and costilla asada with tamarind and yuca. Tasting menus are €55 for six courses or €95 for nine. Candela is the walk-in-friendly way in. **Order:** - Menú Chambacú (six-course tasting) (€55) - Costilla asada con tamarindo, crujiente y cremoso de yuca (€35) - Pescado a la talla, tamal y emulsion de limon (€23.50) ### 11. Bera *Martín Berasategui's casual ground-floor gastrobar on Passeig de Gràcia* - **Neighbourhood:** la Dreta de l'Eixample - **Address:** Carrer de Mallorca, 261, Eixample, 08008 Barcelona - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://berarestaurant.com/eng/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/bera Bera is Martín Berasategui's most accessible Barcelona project, a casual ground-floor gastrobar at Hotel Monument on Passeig de Gràcia that took over the former Oría space. It completes his trio at the same address alongside the three-Michelin-star Lasarte and the rooftop Terraza Verbena. The concept is sharing-format Catalan and Basque comfort food run through fine-dining technique, with a central bar for a quick gilda and vermouth or tables for a longer meal. Highlights from the carta include the Bokata Martintxo, a Galician beef sirloin sandwich with sardine cream, MB-style steak tartare tacos, a truffled bikini with botifarra de perol, and cod kokotxas with cockles. Around €50 a head before drinks, and the bar runs all day. **Order:** - Bokata Martintxo by MB, Galician beef sirloin with sardine cream (€18) - Cod kokotxas with cockles and chives (€23) - Truffled bikini with botifarra de perol and smoked scamorza (€14) ### 12. El Rectangle *Sharing plates from an ex-Palo Verde team in Sant Antoni* - **Neighbourhood:** Sant Antoni - **Address:** Carrer de Sepúlveda, 23, Eixample, 08015 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Website:** https://elrectangle.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/el-rectangle El Rectangle is a small creative room on Carrer de Sepúlveda in Sant Antoni, opened by chefs Martí Badia, Carlos Arocha and Marcos López, who run both kitchen and floor together. The format is roughly fifteen plates designed for sharing, rotating every few weeks, built around seasonal produce and careful technique. Recent dishes have included their gilda and croquette, Martí's bravas, leek with lemon and pomegranate, maitake with hummus and almond, mackerel with ajo blanco and romesco, and a tenderloin with demi-glace and egg yolk. Average spend is around €40 a head before drinks for about five plates. It's informal and unpretentious, with the focus kept firmly on the food, and it's earned a quietly devoted local following. **Order:** - Maitake, Hummus, Almond (€15.00) - Tenderloin, Demi-Glace, Egg Yolk (€19.00) - Mackerel, Ajo Blanco, Romesco (€15.00) ### 13. Bornés *Modern Catalan and creative cocktails across hidden rooms in El Born* - **Neighbourhood:** Santa Caterina - **Address:** Carrer de la Carassa, 2, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://bornesrestaurant.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/bornes Bornés sits on a quiet side street in El Born, inside a space with exposed stone walls and original mosaic floors split across several rooms, including a tucked-away Sala Amagada. The kitchen works modern Catalan, taking classics like trinxat from Cerdanya, fricandó, Sunday macaroni and the clotxa from the Ebre and reinterpreting them with current technique. The plates to know are the Barceloneta bomba, the red prawn suquet, a dry tray-baked rice with red prawn, and a warm brioche of fricandó. The bar runs a creative cocktail programme built as a dialogue with Catalan culture, a drinkable crema catalana, a Sant Jordi serve, a Gaudí-inspired one, with a wine list leaning on Priorat, Penedès, Empordà and Terra Alta. Mid-range, late-night energy, equally good for dinner or drinks. **Order:** - Dry Tray-Baked Rice with Red Prawn & Saffron Alioli (€25.50) - Red Prawn Suquet (€20) - Barceloneta Bomba (€4) ## Honourable mentions - **[Taberna Nardi](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/taberna-nardi)** (Santa Caterina) — Seafood tapas in El Born from Grup Amicks, one of the freshest 2026 arrivals and a tight, just-opened little room. - **[Kina Barra](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/kina-barra)** (Sant Gervasi - Galvany) — Mediterranean seafood and meats in upper Barcelona, an April 2026 opening that landed with real intent. - **[Barra M](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/barra-m)** (la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample) — Nikkei omakase from chef Omar Malpartida in the Eixample, a 2026 counter for Japanese-Peruvian cooking. - **[Cerveceria Seis Cuarenta](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/cerveceria-seis-cuarenta)** (les Corts) — A tapas-and-beer hall on Avinguda Diagonal from chef Eugeni de Diego, who cooked at elBulli, opened late 2025. - **[Agreste Mar](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/agreste-mar)** (Barri Gòtic) — Italian-Catalan cooking inside The Serras hotel on the waterfront, one of 2025's quietly strong openings. - **[Umo Àlex Vall](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/umo)** (Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova) — Chef Àlex Vall's Japanese omakase-style room up in Putxet, a 2025 opening for counter-side Asian cooking. ## The New Openings scene in Barcelona Barcelona's opening calendar has been unusually busy, with a clear cluster of chef-led debuts and casual second projects landing across the Eixample, El Born, Raval, Gràcia and Poblenou. The current wave leans heavily Catalan, reworked tradition, market-driven cooking, natural wine, alongside a strong showing of Latin American and international kitchens. Many of the most talked-about arrivals are tasting-counter or sharing-plate formats from teams who already run a known restaurant elsewhere in the city. Because the category is inherently perishable, this guide is refreshed regularly and carries a visible recency marker. ## Frequently asked questions ### What are the best new restaurants in Barcelona right now? Among the most notable recent Barcelona openings are Mineral (contemporary Catalan counter, Eixample), Trü (Artur Martínez's informal Catalan tavern), Arraval (Catalan market cooking in Raval), Bar Super (natural wine in El Born), Melós (Miquel Pardo's tasting menu) and Casa Fiero (a 1970s Catalan diner from the Maleducat team). ### Which new Barcelona restaurant is best for a tasting menu? Melós, chef Miquel Pardo's first restaurant under his own name, is a creative Catalan tasting-menu room in the Dreta de l'Eixample. Evening menus run €80, €100 and €130, with a five-course weekday lunch at €45. Chambacú also offers Latin American tasting menus at €55 and €95. ### Where can I find new natural wine restaurants in Barcelona? Bar Super, by the Santa Caterina market in El Born, is the standout recent natural-wine room, pairing low-intervention bottles with Italian-Catalan market plates. Pompa in Gràcia is a wine-led cellar and kitchen built around a list of more than 600 references, with a short seasonal carta of small plates. ### Are these new Barcelona restaurants expensive? They span a range. Casual neo-bistros and natural-wine rooms here run small plates totalling roughly €30 to €50 a head. Chef-led tasting debuts climb to €80 to €130 before wine. À la carte spots like Arraval, El Rectangle and Bornés sit around €26 to €50 per person. ### Why do so many new Barcelona restaurants come from established chefs? A clear pattern in Barcelona's current opening wave is established chefs and groups launching a more casual second project: Trü is Artur Martínez's informal sister to Aürt, Casa Fiero comes from the Maleducat team, and Bera is Martín Berasategui's casual ground-floor gastrobar at Hotel Monument. ### What does 'new opening' mean for this Barcelona guide? It means a restaurant that opened within roughly the last twelve to eighteen months, with an opening date traceable to a real source. Venues that opened in 2024 have aged out and moved to the relevant cuisine and neighbourhood guides, and not-yet-open venues are excluded until they have a track record. ### Which new Barcelona restaurant serves Latin American food? Chambacú, on Carrer de Muntaner in the Eixample, is a Colombian-rooted Latin American restaurant from chef Santiago Sánchez Arango. It splits across three spaces, an open courtyard, a cocktail-and-street-food counter, and an intimate tasting-menu room, drawing on Colombian, Peruvian, Mexican and Venezuelan cooking. ### Which neighbourhoods have the most new restaurant openings in Barcelona? The Eixample has the heaviest concentration of recent chef-led openings, including Mineral, Trü, Melós, Chambacú and Bera. El Born has Bar Super and Bornés, the Raval has Arraval, and Gràcia has Pompa. ### Do I need to book new Barcelona restaurants in advance? For the smaller and chef-led rooms, yes. Mineral, Melós, Pompa and Chambacú's tasting room have limited covers and fill quickly, so book ahead. Bar Super, Finorri and Bera are more walk-in friendly, especially at the bar or for weekday meals. ## About the author **Justin Mota** — Guidavera founder Justin Mota is the founder of Guidavera. He has lived in Spain for over 10 years and runs a native AI agency alongside building this platform. Food has always been the way Justin connects with friends, and Guidavera started as the list he kept sending to everyone visiting Barcelona. He built it for himself and his friends first, and now hopes it can transform the way people discover great food experiences everywhere. More: https://guidavera.com/about --- This guide is the canonical machine-readable version of https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/new-openings. Every claim is verifiable against the linked restaurant profiles. Source: Guidavera (https://guidavera.com).