Food
Time for Calçots!
By Barceloner at 11 March, 2008, 6:38 am
Spring marks a special time in Catalonia when it’s tradition to munch burned onions.
What? Burned onions?
Yes indeed, and very tasty they are too!
The Calçot, wikipedia tells us, is a type of Scallion, a long green onion similar to a spring onion but with a leeky texture that is cooked on a barbecue. Here’s [...]
Thirty six chairs
By Barceloner at 14 December, 2005, 3:20 pm
Attention: serious insider info follows!
We had been talking about visiting this place for ages before making the trip out to Lliça d’Amunt, a small town near Granollers. We finally got there this summer after a day walking in the country … or were we lounging by the pool, I can’t remember.
The Trenta-sis Cadires (“Thirty [...]
La Vinateria del Call
By Barceloner at 14 December, 2005, 1:11 pm
This venue was the inspiration for the Living Barcelona website! We happened upon this place once by taking a meandering route through the tiny passegeways of the barri gòtic, and having gorged ourselves on tapas, wine and cooked meats, could never find it again. Digging through the pockets of my jeans I found [...]
Read More >>Suzet: King of the Crêpes
By Barceloner at 13 December, 2005, 11:57 am
News: Suzet is no more! It has been replaced by a ubiquitous Udon Noodle Bar
A perennial favourite of ours is this crêperie in the bustling heart of Barcelona. I have been there so many times now I have lost count; it’s always a great place to take visiting friends and [...]
Dinner from The Kitchen - where else?
By Barceloner at 12 December, 2005, 11:34 am
It’s always the same.
We head off on a Friday night with a place in mind and hunger in our bellies. Half an hour later we are kicking ourselves for not having made a reserva and trawling the streets for a nice-looking restaurant.
Five or six blocks later we are ready to enter the nearest place that [...]