Ready-made walk · Barcelona

Markets, Taverns and Chocolate in Old Barcelona

6 stops · ~1 hr 50 min · 2.6 km

Food & Drink

A tasting walk across the old city, beginning among the stalls of La Boqueria and at Can Culleretes, a restaurant with roots in a nineteenth-century chocolate shop. Continue to 4Gats in Puig i Cadafalch’s Casa Martí, the Santa Caterina market and the chocolate museum, ending at El Xampanyet on Montcada Street.

The stops, in walking order

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Stop 1: 4Gats
~3 min here
4Gats is a café and restaurant occupying the ground floor of Casa Martí, designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch.
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Stop 2: Mercat de Sant Josep - La Boqueria
~3 min here
La Boqueria is the public food market opening onto La Rambla, and its stalls offer an unusually broad range of goods.
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Stop 3: Can Culleretes
~3 min here
Can Culleretes is a restaurant whose story reaches back to a chocolate shop recorded here in 1847.
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Stop 4: Mercat de Santa Caterina
~3 min here
Mercat de Santa Caterina is a public market whose older façades conceal a striking modern roof.
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Stop 5: El Xampanyet
~3 min here
El Xampanyet is a neighbourhood tavern and wine cellar on Montcada Street, in Barcelona.
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Stop 6: Museu de la Xocolata
~1 hr here
You’re looking at the Museu de la Xocolata, a private museum devoted to chocolate in Barcelona.