This lower Eixample institution has been around since the 1940s. It’s one of the few spots where lunch for two will only set you back €40 (wine included), and everything tastes as if it came straight out of a dog-eared Catalan family recipe book. Legend has it this spot serves up 100 daily plates of offal stew (or cap i pota, which translates as head and hoof, to give you a hint as to what’s in it). Gelida opens daily at 7am (8am on Saturdays, closed Sundays) to serve the neighborhood geezers their esmorzar de forquilla (a traditional Catalan breakfast that reads like a cookout for hungry lumberjacks) and, by 1pm, there is a line out the door. Aim to arrive by midday for an “early” lunch—at least by Spanish standards—before the hordes descend.