Curious about food, culture and what people put in their mouth
Catalan food is not for the squeamish to eat nor for those who don't know how to cook to prepare. It is similar to French food, in that both groups will eat most animals and their less familiar bits with pleasure. The complex sauces that are the ...
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 ...
Forn Mistral is a bakery that has been in the same family for 5 generations and dates back to 1879. There are two shops, a short walk from one another. One serving as a takeaway bakery and another with an old fashioned cafeteria, complete with waitresses with cloth bonnets on their heads. Forn Mistral dates…
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…
Delacrem Obrador Ice Cream has opened a second location on the leafy avenue of Passeig de Sant Joan. Early in the evening, when the sun is low enough that the city is painted a rich pink colour, locals set out of their apartment and head to Delacrem. ...
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, ...
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...
