Restaurants close to Barcelona’s highlights
There is a sentence that all of us have heard when talking about eating in a foreign city: “You shouldn’t eat in that (imagine any tourist area) spot. There are just a bunch of restaurant for tourists (meaning not good and expensive).” I won’t say in Barcelona it...
The Gazpacho’s Recipe
It is the Month of August. Barcelona, a Mediterranean city. This means that it is hot and the humidity is hight. If you come to Barcelona, do not forget to carry water. In addition, when you stop for lunch on just to have some tapas, do not forget to order gazpacho....
Vegetarian restaurants in Barcelona
Barcelona goes green Urban gardens, green roofs that absorb pollution or lush hotel terraces dye the city to chlorophyll, healthy green. Vegetarian restaurants in Barcelona are in luck because since March 2016, Barcelona has been declared a city veg friendly, to...
Barcelona, the chocolate and why in this city we love cocoa
Barcelona, the chocolate and why in this city we love cocoa Today we want to show you the sweetest face of the city through the history, the places and anecdotes about Barcelona's relationship with chocolate, the holy seed of the old Aztecs and Mayas. In order to...
A very cold beer, please
Today we would like to invite you to taste the particular relationship between Barcelona and the beer. Even if the city has not an original local tradition, Barcelona has several brands associated to its history, a lot of beer-shops and bars appreciated by experts...
The Set Portes restaurant: the history on a tablecloth
Let's start with the popular wisdom: there are eight doors instead of seven in this building promoted by the millionaire Josep Xifré i Cases in the Isabel II avenue. We are in Barcelona, circa 1830, nearby the harbor when this successful businessman decides to locate...
The Quatre Gats. Santiago Rusiñol and his friends have fun
If when somebody asks you if there were many people somewhere and you say "Bah, we were just four cats" that might look as a negative answer. This is just the opposite if we talk about the Quatre Gats, the tavern which became the heart of the modernist bohemians for...