Re: "The restaurants which always get listed in the tourist guides are predictable, okay-ish, but not the best the city has to offer. Examples: Amaya, Los Caracoles, Agut d'Avinyon, and Gambrinus." That's indeed a strange list of stale old restaurants. A 1970 tourist guide, perhaps? Barcelona has some great restaurants and is far above the culinary level of a "tapas city" (that description fits Seville to a T, not Barcelona). In 2002, the list (not going into the restaurant-rich suburbs and nearby coastal areas) would include Neichel, Àbac, Gaig, Jean-Luc Figueras, Racò d'en Freixa, OT, Peixerot... Some outstanding stuff in one of the food capitals of, perhaps, the one European country where cuisine is evolving fastest and most dazzlingly...
