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Barcelona´s Best Places to buy Jamón Ibérico

Many of our customers ask us during our food tours if we can give them some recommendations for the best places to buy one of Spain’s best-known culinary treasures: the jamon iberico. You can find jamon iberico in endless specialized gourmet shops all around Barcelona, in supermarkets as well as at the famous old food…

7 Delicious Seafood Tapas Recipes

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

5 Food Trends for 2016 by Food Lover Tour

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…

Have you heard about the famous Catalan “Calçotada”?

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…

5 Best Barcelona Food Markets

About Barcelona Food Markets For a real Food Lover it is quite a MUST to experience at least a few of the top Barcelona food markets. The smell of freshest seafood, the exotic fruits you have probably never seen before and the beauty of the colourful vegetables will satisfy anyone’s dreams of a Spanish food…

Facts & Quality Secrets for buying Jamon Iberico

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…

Catalan cuisine far away from Spanish “clichés”?

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 and…

Spanish Wine and Cheese Pairing

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…