Spanish Food

Many of you have asked us where to buy one of Spain’s best-known culinary treasures: jamón ibérico. You can find this delicious ham in endless specialized gourmet shops all around Barcelona, in supermarkets, as well as at the famous old food markets of the city. However, we recommend you look for places where you can…

Do you crave fresh and delicious seafood but feel daunted by the kitchen and don’t want to be overcharged at a seafood restaurant? The give these simple seafood tapas recipes a try! These 7 delicious seafood recipes will satisfy your stomach and prove that cooking seafood at home isn’t so hard. We hope you enjoy…

1. All goes small – Tapas Style stays trendy “Less is more”. Sharing small portions with authentic and strong flavours will also be an important Trend for 2016. Menus are getting shorter, dining rooms are getting smaller and Restaurants focus more and more on what the customers search for. An unforgettable experience of special tastes…

About Calçotada Wintertime has come and Catalonia celebrates the harvest of Calçot in this time of the year with the annual calçotada, which represents one of the most popular and unique traditional dishes. The most famous calçotada celebration is held in Valls the last week of January. What are Calcots? Calçot is a type of…

A true Food Lover must experience at least a couple of the Barcelona food markets. The smell of fresh seafood, the fruits from all over Spain, beautiful vegetables and incredible charcuterie will satisfy anyone’s dreams of a Spanish food market. Mercat de la Boqueria / Sant Josep Barcelona’s best-known market has its own unique atmosphere…

The Spanish tradition of producing Jamon Iberico traces back more than two thousand years when the Romans controlled most of Spain. But until the 13th century Jamon was exclusively served to the royalty. Nowadays, Spaniards eat on average up to 7 pounds of cured ham per year. Due to the importance of this delicacy in…

  How people eat in Catalonia, is catalan´s cuisine anyway is considered as typical Spanish food? Following a very good article we found from Sam Zucker, which is about an interview he did on a famous local grocery shop and also restaurant (4 tables), Sam Zucker focused the conversation on what Catalan people are eating…

Choosing a good Spanish wine and cheese pairing is not easy! How many wines, how many cheeses do we have in Spain? Well, a lot! If we consider that we have more than 80 types of cheese, with 23 of them classified as Protected Designation of Origin (D.O.P – Denominación de Origen Protegida), and 69…