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| Those
people who sit down at the Catalan
table have the pleasure to taste a
very delicious and nourishing cooking,
characteristic of a strong flavour
and original interpretations of the
produce of the land.
Barcelona can be proud of satisfying
every kind of palate, because its
most famous dishes are both meat and
fish-based. The most famous Spanish
speciality which reunites both meat
and fish flavours is the Paella, a
single dish where rice, meat and fish
are mixed together, but an holiday
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spent
in Barcelona can also be a good opportunity
to taste unusual approaches like chicken
with crayfish. The fish-lovers can
pick and choose among delicious soupes
(suquet de peix), sea food salades
(zarzulea de marisco) and tasty mixed
fish grills (farrillada). For “meat-eatings”the
Catalan menu suggests-rabbit cooked
with rhum and duck with turnips, instead
those people who appreciate intense
flavours can’t refuse to taste
some big roasted onions (calçots)
or the typical sausages (butifarra)
adding one of the traditional spicy
sauces. A dessert which is whorty
of a such succulent meal, is without
doubt the Catalan cream, a typical
dessert spoon including eggs, sugar,milk
and cinnamon mixed together. Naturally
the Spanish menu doesn’t miss
good wines which go well both with
meat-for example a Priorat (a red
one) or with fish-a Penedes (a white
fruity one) or if you prefer, you
can decide to have a beer. |
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FIRST
CLASS RESTAURANTS |
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Botafumeiro
Gran de Gràcia 81
You can pick and choose among the
whole huge menu one of the many fish-based
dishes cooked with masterly skill.
Beltxena
Mallorca 275
Located in the Eixample area, this
house with garden readapted as a restaurant
proposes Basque specialities and excellent
fish.
Jean Luc Figueras
Santa Teresa 10
Is one of the three restaurants opened
by the homonymous chef offering an
excellent cooking.
Casa Leopoldo
Sant Rafael 24
This typical restaurant is the favourite
one of the writer Vasquez Montalban.
Reno
Tuset 27
The menu is various- both fish and
game –are fresh and cooked at
once.
La Odisea
Copons 7
Nearby the Cathedral, this restaurant
is popular for its creative cooking.
Juame de Provença
Provença 88
Located in the Eixample area, here
you can taste excellent fish-based
specialities. |
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ENJOY
A GOOD MEAL |
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Tram
Tram
Major de Sarria 121
It is quite out of the way,but the
travel is worthy of its very creative
kitchen.
Los Caracoles
Escudellers 14
Photos of Bullfighters and azulejos
are hanged on the walls of this restaurant
which cooks snails as a tribute to
French cooking.
Set Portes
Passeig Isabel II
Nearby the port and Stock Exchange,it
is considered a real paella’s
paradise.
Tortilleria Flash Flash
La Granada del Penedes 25
You can taste every kind of tortillas
in this restaurant opened by a very
famous photographer.
Brasserie Flo
Jonqueres 10
French cooking and Catalan tradition
are mixed together in an ex textile
industry.
Agut
Gignas 16
For over 80 years this restaurant
inside the Barri Gotic offers to its
customers a cheap and simple menu.
La Vaqueria
Deu i Mata 141
A simply and traditional cooking inside
this Restaurant, an ex cowshed. |
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The
classic and pleasant way to begin
the evening in the lively Barcelona
is to pub-crawls tasting tapas and
drinking wine, beer or cocktails.
Tapas are a taste of food including-bocadillos(rolls),
croquetas(croquettes),tortillas and
more, and you can taste them both
before lunch(sometimes as an alternative
to it) and before dinner. Those people
who don’t want to stop at one
of these bars (generally open until
2 a.m) ,can choose among many musical
bars and discos, gathered together
along Avinguda Diagonal. The city
offers also jazz clubs,cabaret shows
and places where you can dance the
tango; the most lively areas of the
city are Gracia’s quarter,the
Olympic city and Avinguda del tibidabo.Other
places where you can spend a good
time are Poble Espanyol located on
Montjuic hill and Port Vell where
you can visit the biggest European
aquarium and a spectacular cinema. |
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BARS
AND CAFES |
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Pep
Plaça de les Olles
This place offers different kinds of
tapas both hot and cold ones, but the
fish-based tapas are particurarly delicious.
La Palma
Palma Sant Just
Inside Barri Gotic,it serves tapas on
marble tables and offers daily newspapers
to read.
De Tapa Madre
Mallorca 301
In this place inside Eixample area are
served Castilian tapas to suit all tastes.
Cafè de l’Opera
Ramblas 74
A very popular cafe builded in a modernist
style.
Els Quatre Gats
Carrer Montsiò 3
It is the cafe where Picasso organized
his first art exhibition.
Harlem
Jazz Club
Comtessa Sobradiel 8
Inside Barrio Gotico this place is small
but has a charming atmosphere.
Zeleste
Almogavares 122
ILocated in an ex factory,here you can
listen to both rock and jazz music.
El Cordobes
Rambla 35
Here,in a tipycal touristic place nearby
Ramblas you can dance the tango or watch
people dancing. |
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| A
useful mean for the tourist who visits
the Catalan metropolis: Barcelona
card is the cheapest way to cross
the city and admire its monuments
but also to taste the flavours of
its cooking, to buy typical products
and to go in the latest fashion cafes.
The special card can be valid from
1 to 5 days and allows to the owner
the free use of public transports,
a 50% discount on ticket for entering
in Picasso’s museum or many
others, a 30% discount on Sagrada
Familla’s entrance and a 20%
for example on Foundation Mirò’s
admission ticket. Other advantages
of the card are price reductions on
meals in the Restaurants which agree,
in several shops and cafes. You can
buy the Barcelona card both in tourist
information offices and also in department
store ”El corte Ingles”.
The price changes from euro 17 of
the daily card to euro 27 of a five
days valid card. |
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