Eight Specialty Coffee Shops To Visit in Barcelona

Barcelona is one of Europe's best cities for specialty coffee and has a huge variety of excellent coffee shops, cafes and roasters. In this guide, I'm sharing my favourite coffee spots from my recent long-weekend trip — plus one from a previous visit and even a bonus coffee cocktail experience!

How To Spend a Long Weekend in Barcelona (3-Day Winter Itinerary)

With its magnificent architecture, fantastic food and beautiful beaches, Barcelona is one of Europe's best city break destinations. With a week in Barcelona, you can eat your way around countless tapas bars, gorge on Gaudí and venture off the beaten track. But you can still pack a lot into a long weekend in Barcelona, as I found out last month.

Four Great Day Trips from Palma de Mallorca

When I planned my recent trip to Mallorca, I decided to stay in Palma and explore other parts of Mallorca by taking day trips. During my stay, I visited four of Mallorca's most beautiful destinations by public transport and small-group tour. Warning: this post contains beautiful beaches (platjas), stunning coves (calas), charming mountain towns and much more!

Packing for a Palma City Break (Personal Item Only)

My Osprey Daylite Expandable 26+6 Travel Pack had its second foreign excursion this month when I took it on a five-day trip to Palma de Mallorca in Spain. Once again, I was impressed with how much I could pack in and how comfortable it was to carry. Read on to discover how the backpack worked as a personal item on a BA flight and what I packed.

Nine Specialty Coffee Shops To Visit in Palma de Mallorca

When I wasn't visiting Palma de Mallorca's cathedrals, castles and coves, I made time to explore the city's burgeoning specialty coffee scene. Mallorca has several specialty coffee roasteries, as well as many other cafes serving coffee from top roasters from mainland Spain and beyond. The brunch offering is impressive too. Read on to find out my favourite coffee discoveries in Palma.

Five Days in Palma de Mallorca: Cathedrals, Culture and Coves

With 300 sunny days per year, a beautiful old town, great food and fabulous beaches, Palma de Mallorca is the perfect destination for a European city break. I spent five days there in July and in this guide, I'm sharing the best things to see and do in Palma and beyond, dining and hotel recommendations and tips for making the most of your time.

How To Spend a Long Weekend in Seville

My mum and I take a short European city break together every year — Budapest last year and Prague the year before. This year, we flew south to Seville, Spain's fourth-largest city and the capital of Andalucía. Although I've been to Spain many times, my visits had centred around Barcelona and Bilbao, so it was great to finally visit the south. 

A Specialty Coffee Tour of Seville

At the end of November, I spent a long weekend in sunny Seville with my mum, my first time in the capital of Andalucía. We had three full days in the city, which gave me enough time to visit a few of the specialty coffee shops on my list — without inflicting too much coffee on my mum, who doesn't like coffee (or even the smell of it).

The Caffeine Chronicles: Nomad Coffee, Barcelona

Update: I finally returned to Barcelona in 2026. Check out my much more comprehensive Barcelona specialty coffee guide and city guide.

The first few months of 2017 were always going to be a busy travel period for me, with two short European trips and a longer US work trip scheduled. Then two more brief European work trips materialised, to Cologne at the end of January and Barcelona earlier this week for a hectic one-night stay.