New Restaurants in Barcelona to Know in 2026
Barcelona's best openings this year share a direction of travel: down. Chefs with Michelin stars and fine-dining CVs are opening rooms that are smaller, cheaper and more personal than the places that made their names — a tavern instead of a tasting menu, a market bar instead of a temple. It makes for a very good year to eat here without a reservation booked a month out.
What follows are the 2025–2026 openings worth rearranging an evening around, grouped roughly by neighbourhood and mood. It skips launch-week hype, celebrity imports and chain outposts.
The Eixample chef debuts
The grid is where the ambitious names landed. Trü (Carrer de Còrsega 232, opened February 2026) is Artur Martínez — of the Michelin-starred Aürt — going informal: a "memory-based" Catalan tavern, 35 seats, dinner only, run with his core Aürt team. A few streets over, Mineral (beside the Mercat del Ninot, opened April 2026) pairs chef Oliver Peña, who won a star at Teatro, with former Enigma director Cristina Losada on the wine — product-led cooking and classic stews built largely from the market next door, and already called one of the year's best.
And Superauto (Carrer del Rosselló 182, opened March 2026) takes over the much-loved Auto Rosellón space: Israeli chef Ronit Stern and Rafael Campos cook "freestyle," label-free food that drifts from all-day café to shared plates, against Campos's minimal-intervention wine list.
Gràcia, on memory and wine
Up in Gràcia the rooms get smaller and more personal. Piropo (Carrer del Topazi 18, opened January 2026) is chef Quim Marqués and his daughter Paula reworking 1980s Catalan home cooking with modern technique — 35 seats plus a six-stool counter that doubles as the open kitchen, at prices that stay reasonable.
Pompa (Carrer de Sèneca 25, opened August 2025) is the wine-driven sister to Berbena, from Carles Pérez de Rozas: a smaller, more upscale room where the very long natural-leaning list leads and the refined food is built to follow it.
Market bars, from serious names
Some of the most fun is happening around the markets. On the Mercat de Santa Caterina block, twin brothers Sergio and Javier Torres — of three-Michelin-starred Cocina Hermanos Torres — stepped all the way down to open Parada Torres (opened May 2026): a market bar with fifty-odd dishes of Catalan comfort food at €20–40, on the market their grandmother once cooked near. Across the same square, Bar Super (Plaça de Santa Caterina 3, opened March 2025) is the Colombo brothers' follow-up to Bar Brutal and Xemei — simple product-led plates from the market opposite and a funk-forward natural-wine list with glasses from around €4.50.
And on the Eixample's edge, Barra Oso (Carrer de Muntaner 248, opened December 2025) is chef Òscar Álvarez cooking everything himself at a big open-kitchen bar — Catalan small plates and wines by the glass, relaxed and accessibly priced.
How to keep up
A list like this is accurate the week it's written and slowly drifts after. The point of Better Taste is that the Barcelona catalogue is curated and kept current, so you carry the whole edit in your pocket rather than bookmarking a post — filter it by restaurant or wine bar, and save the rooms you mean to get to.
Start with the openings above, then browse the full Barcelona catalogue.