Curious about food, culture and what people put in their mouth
A Pluma is a Gourmet Chicken restaurant by chef Eugeni de Diego. A Pluma is not your average rotisserie shop. For starters, there are an awful lot of chefs and waiters allocated to the smallest of kitchens and what can't be more than 15 seats ...
Carles Abellan’s La Barra is on the first floor of the W Hotel. It’s a large restaurant with windows overlooking a terrace which in turn looks out on to the beach. The space is broken up by an enormous horseshoe-shaped bar and kitchen.Fine ...
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…
Lately, the topmost right part of El Born known as La Ribera / Sant Pere is playing host to a flurry of new openings. From big projects like the somewhat controversial Hotel Rec (also home to Fismuler) to smaller projects like La Masala Cafe. While the former is likely to drastically change the character of…
Three Marks Coffee. So-called because the place is owned by three men, all of whom are named Mark. There is local Mark, from Barcelona; Northern Italian Mark & Southern Italian Mark. I meet two, both have their trouser legs rolled up. One sports a red wolly hat which nicely plays off the small red trays…
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 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, there are ...
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...
