Food grazing: Sant Antoni market to Carrer de Blai
2.5km
3 h 30 minEasy
7stops
A neighbourhood graze where locals shop and snack: a market bar breakfast, a bakery, vermouth on Carrer del Parlament, then a pintxo crawl on Carrer de Blai and conservas at Quimet & Quimet.
Best time: Saturday late morning into lunch, or a weekday from 11:00 (Sunday for the book market instead of food stalls)
Restored 1882 iron market reopened in 2018, where the neighbourhood does its daily shopping; a local alternative to the Boqueria with food stalls, clothes stalls and excavated…
Chickpeas with blood sausage at the counter; 30 min.
The legendary Boqueria counter bar of Juanito Bayen's family, now cooking chickpeas with blood sausage, stews and fried eggs in the Sant Antoni market, where locals shop.
Terrace bar on Sant Antoni's liveliest street; Spotted by Locals recommends it for Barcelona's vermut culture (a pre-lunch or evening vermouth with tapas).
The busiest pintxo bar on Carrer de Blai, the pedestrian street where Barcelonans go for cheap pintxo crawls; Spotted by Locals calls it a place to squeeze round a table and talk…
Fourth-generation, standing-only bodega with bottles to the ceiling, making montaditos from top-quality conservas. Poble-sec regulars drop in for an after-work montadito and…
