Curious about food, culture and what people put in their mouth
Hotel Omm has turned into Sir Victor Hotel, a boutique company from Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Roca Moo, the Barcelona outpost of the Roca brothers El Celler de Can Roca has become Mr. Porter Barcelona. The masculine lean of the names seem culturally deaf ...
I met Rob at Quillo Bar lunch the other day. His suggestion. "Why here again?" I asked when he arrived. "Oh because I saw you went to Rafols and I had a mollete and a beer here the other day and thought you might like it?" We manage to snag one of ...
Beyond excited to announce that Eat Like a Local Barcelona is available to buy! Published by Bloomsbury. Eat Like a Local Barcelona is a great format! Pocket-sized, it’s comprised of 130 pages of essential addresses. Find out where to Eat, Drink, Shop and try out some typical local recipes. Choose by category. From Breakfast to…
Les Filles is a handsome new Cafe in Gracia. It comes from the similarly named Loup Filles, a local fresh pressed juice brand. They are somehow related to En Compania de Lobos: a restaurant group in Barcelona that kills it with their design. They, in turn, are an offshoot of the Tragaluz group. I bring…
Bar Central is a coffee shop with its own oasis. Across from Dos Palillos and accessed through Llibreria La Central. There are two indoor rooms, one painted a Tiffany’s hue of turquoise, other parts beige. A monastic quality emanates from it all. Perhaps it’s the ghost of the priest whose house this once was. “It’s…
El Raval is home to an excellent Filipino market called Proxim. Barcelona is still the kind of city where migrants, their food, and their culture, is pushed off to the sides. Present but invisible except to those who are seeking it out.There ...
Natas Ice Cream is a pink shop in the Raval selling handmade ice cream. The pink walls are the same hue as Manuela's strawberry flavour. Today, the counter is adorned with a tuft of flowers in a vase, soft pink with many small heads. On the walls, ...
Milla is a 25-year-old woman who, disenchanted with her PR job working for Louis Vuitton in London moved to Barcelona. She had two ideas. One, was to be a purveyor of Spanish fare, championing the small producer. (something like Épices Shira, or ...
Hello! My name is Suzy. This blog is about discovering Barcelona through its eateries. I take it one restaurant or shop at a time and post on the blog once a week. I vary where I eat to have a have a mix of high and low end places. My goal is to find the special places, the ones worth seeking out and show and tell you all about them. Read more...
