All about food and drink in Barcelona

Cooking
The most important ingredients of Catalan Cooking are : olive oil, garlic, sun and patience.

 This cuina (Catalan name for cooking) has Phoenicians roots, Greek and Roman. This is a tasty cooking, which does not fear to mix sweetened and salty, honey, cinnamon, almonds, pinions, and dry fruits. Pork-butchery (embotits) is rough and vigorous, like its botifarra a black roll prepared with pig meat mixed with blood, its serran ham or its fuet. The botifarra that you can find in l'Empordà is sweetened and scented with lemon peel and cinnamon, a receipt that comes from the Middle Age. The more inland we go, we will find more often llonganises (sausages) on the table.
 

Soft drinks

 - The orxata ( pronounced "ortxata"), is one of the most refreshing drinks. It is manufactured with the juice of chufa a kind of papyrus which grow at the banks of the Guadalquivir.

 

- We can also find the granizado : orange or lemon juice, or coffee with crushed ice in large centrifugal machines. Sweetened, frozen and not expensive.

 

- In the plain of Lleida, you can find a drink called drink of the poor (beguda de pobre), made from oranges, anise and sugar. It is surprising.

 

 

Alcoholic

 

- Beer (cerveza) : the most spread drink. Be careful when asking for a beer, in Spain, in a bar, when you ask for a beer it means a beer in a bottle. If what you want is a draught beer you have to ask for a "caña".

 

 

- Wine : The cradle of the growing wine is a few kilometers from Barcelona in the area called Pénedès. We can find red wines with powerful taste. Try the appellation origine wines, a certified quality.

 

- Vermuth al grifo : It is wine macerated with herbs and delivered in small barrels with aerated water.

 

- Cava : It is the Champagne, a wine semi-sparkling, very pleasant to drink, a bit fruity an greener than the French Champagne. There are different brands : Raïmat, Freixenet and Codorniu.

 

- Inland we can find the good ratafias.

 

- Moscatel : it is a sweet wine and often find with mel i mató (see desserts below). Not to miss !

 

 

Tapas

 

If it is the first time that you come to Spain, you will probably wonder why in the evening, whatever the day, the tapas bars are crowded. Quite simply, because the Spaniards like to go "de tapeo" (going out for tapas implies ordering a plate of food).

 

Even though they are now found in homes and smart restaurants, tapas have kept an informal spirit through their popular origins as street food. It is very often cheaper than a restaurant.

Getting around Barcelona

Our passes and tickets to get around Barcelona as easily and cheaply as possible.

Transport Pass Barcelona

Transport Pass

Aerobus + Unlimited Public Transportation

Ideal for your stay "Transport Pass" includes both the transfer by Aerobus to and from the airport and the Hola Card which gives unlimited access for 48, 72, 96, or 120 hours to public transport: metro, bus (TMB), urban trains (FGC, Zone 1), TRAM, regional trains..

From € 29.00
Hola Barcelona Public Transport Card

Hola Transport Card

Unlimited access to public transport

Enjoy unlimited access from 48 to 120 hours to Barcelona's public transport: Metro, bus (TMB), urban railway (FGC, Zone 1), Montjuïc funicular, tram (TRAM), regional railway (Rodalies de Cataluny) + 1 round trip from the airport to the city center. Only excluding NitBus, Aerobus & hop-on hop-off.

From € 19.50
Aerobus Tickets

Aerobus Tickets

Transfers from airport to centre and back

The Aerobus is a shuttle bus that takes you from El Prat Airport to city centre in 35 minutes. One departure every 5 minutes. 365 days a year! Online tickets, tips and infos!

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Barcelona Hop-On Hop-Off Bus

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4 comments

  1. olive oil, garlic, sun and patience! - bravo (1 Mar 2013 - 10:30)

    yes bravo for this patience.. better than waht we see in food industry right now

  2. A lovely bar! - Steven (4 May 2012 - 09:00)

    In Riera de Sant Miquel 70. It´s called La Birreria. They have the best Trikinis I´ve ever tried! And the music, excellent! Grunge, pop, jazz... amazing selection!

  3. food - lauryn nesbitt (12 Oct 2011 - 10:00)

    your foods look really good.they look good too.

  4. food - precious (13 Mar 2011 - 13:00)

    your food look very good and i would like to try to make it one day

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