Curious about food, culture and what people put in their mouth
Suru Bar is across from the Ninot Market (one of my favourites), Despite this prominent position the beginning of service starts with customers fast walking to the door, phone smashed against their ear saying something along the lines of "just wait ...
***Best Korean Restaurants Barcelona by Mi Mi Chloe Park*** Mi Mi grew up in New York where she worked in PR for the Lifestyle, Travel + Hospitality sectors working with brands such as Chateau Marmont and The Standard Hotels. She moved to Barcelona ...
Best Pastry Shops in Barcelona Continuing with the Best of Barcelona series curated by experts in their fields. This week we feature the pastry chef Manuela Rodríguez Viseras. I first met Manuela in Natas, a pink-walled ice cream shop in 2019. Manuela’s flavours were stealth genius. Like the salt ratio in her mint chocolate ice…
Brunch in Barcelona has never been better than it is right now. The last year has seen a flurry of new Brunch Places in Barcelona. And while the city had its fair share of brunch joints previously, these new brunch places set themselves apart through well-designed interiors, all day kitchens and well-curated and executed dishes….
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….
"Nothing Catalan please." is my refrain as I ask for wine recommendations in London, Paris and Bordeaux this summer. "But this is a Xarel-lo!" they exclaim "Pronounced Sharelloo." they will delightedly insist. I know Xarel-lo and its distinctive ...
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 ...