Bar El Velódromo

This beautiful Art Deco bar serves traditional Catalan specialties like cod with a ratatouille-like pisto (minus the eggplant), and our favorite: cheese-smothered macaroni gratin with roast chicken and pork. The croquettes are the house best seller—you can get squid ink or Iberian ham, but we like to order one of each. With just the right balance of creaminess and crispness, they’re some of the finest in the city and go great with unpasteurized beers directly from the Moritz Barcelona Factory.