Curious about food, culture and what people put in their mouth
Savta Sandwich ShopAs I bite into the Sleazy sandwich at Savta in El Raval, it's instantly clear that I am in the wrong physical state for this sandwich. To really appreciate it, I should either be hungover or actively drunk. Only then will the ...
Pez Vela BarcelonetaAs a foreign transplant, I am still not sure about paella. Is it the rice cooked in sofrito and broth with a protein that generates all the clamour? Or is it everything that paella represents and the accoutrements that go ...
The New Food Business Model in Barcelona I don’t think we are going to snap back to normal. That’s been the collective mantra, hasn’t it? Get through this bit. However, if this is it rather than just a bit, what are the innovations coming out of it? Since the start of the pandemic in Barcelona…
Casa Taos Coffee & Sustainable Shopping I have so many choices when it comes to good coffee. I can walk a few blocks in any direction and find somewhere I love. It wasn’t always so. The uptake of craft coffee in Barcelona was slow. Several changes contributed to the growth of the craft coffee movement….
News and Coffee Kiosks in Barcelona It’s a strange time to have a food blog. An odd time to be a human. A disastrous time to be in the hospitality business. The stop and start nature of the restrictions that the whole world has to contend with right now is the worst-case scenario for a…
I am a baker. My kids' lunchbox contents are the envy of their classmates. They have the muffins, the brookies, the cookies- daily. I'm smug about it. And being immersed in baking myself, I am not easily impressed. In my mind and that of 8-year-olds, ...
La Despensa is a new food hamper service in Barcelona. Set up by Alberto of Espai Egg and Bear on Bike and Carmen and Andrea from SlowMov. Both run projects I love. They are about sustainable, organic, local food products. These days, I can't open a ...
Have you watched Parasite? A Korean movie about class. It's a thriller, a pitch-black comedy and a legitimate nose around into how Koreans live, the poor and the rich.I watched it on Curzon online. It stayed with me. I added South Korea to my ...
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...