GASTRONOMY OF BARCELONA

Barcelona's cuisine, as well as the catalan cuisine, is typically mediterranean and is based in natural and season products.

The recipes are simply elaborated but always with a nice touch, typical of the mediterranean cuisine. Always looking for the bouquet and showiness of the dishes.

The basic products of our mediterranean diet are always alive in the gastronomy of Barcelona. Fresh vegetables and fruits, oil of olive, nuts, fresh seafood and shellfish, legumes, aromatic herbs and a variety of delicious pastry.

The quality of these products are in perfect combination of our excellent wines and cava of the land: wines of El Penedes, Alella, El Priorat, etc.

All in all, the cuisine of Barcelona is tasty, excellent, appetizing and healthy.

IN THE RESTAURANT

There is a great offer of restaurants in Barcelona. As a difference to the majority of European countries, the time for lunch is from 13.30 to 16.00 while the dinner is from 21.00. Nevertheless, there are non stop kitchen restaurants.

Tips in restaurants are not mandatory but if you get a good service, you can pay 10% approximately in cash as a tip.

TYPICAL DISHES OF BARCELONA

The diversity of dishes that you can taste in Barcelona is infinite, thanks also to the international influence. We recommend you the following typical dishes:

• Escalivada: Based on roasted eggplant and red pepper, flavoured with salt and olive oil. 

• Calçots: A Variant of the onion that is cooked to the ember and is flavoured with a sauce called Romesco. We celebrate "calçotadas", family or friends meals where the calçot is the star.

• Escudella: A stew cooked with different meats of pig and chicken, chickpeas, vegetables, potatoes and spices. 

• Fricandó: Fillets of veal cooked with plums, pinions, tomatoes, onion and “rovellons” (a kind of mushroom). 

• Pa amb tomaquet (Bread and Tomato) with a sausage selection: Coarse bread rubbed hard with the pulp of the tomato and dressed with oil and salt. Accompanied with typical catalan sausages.

• Esqueixada de Bacalla: (salad of codfish) Exquisite salad with codfish, tomato, onion and olives. Ideal dish for Summer season. 

• Crema Catalana: Dessert elaborated with egg, milk and burned sugar, it has a very smooth taste. 

• Coca de Sant Joan: Typical sponge cake of Saint John's eve (night of 23 June) that can be found in various forms and tastes.