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Restaurants
Barcelona is a city obsessed with food and the variety of restaurants and eating-places is huge. Ranging from the most sophisticated restaurants to small local tapas bars. The old city is full of charm and its winding streets are filled with little bars and restaurants, one more beautiful than the other.
Breakfast is usually the smallest and least important meal of the day, however lunch is very important and is taken very seriously. Lunch starts at around 2 pm and goes on until around 4 pm. Dinner is served from 9 pm until midnight.
Many restaurants are closed on Sunday evening and Monday lunchtime. Many of them are also closed for summer holiday for two or three weeks during August.
Catalonian cuisine
The Catalonian cuisine is mainly based on products from the land and the sea and is influenced by other cultures. Its origin goes back to the time of Romans, and since then it has adopted recipes from the Italian, Greek, French, Arabian and Jewish gastronomy.
The Catalonian cuisine is described as traditional Mediterranean cuisine and is rich with olive oil, vegetables, fruit, fresh fish and seafood, a large variety of cakes and of course, a wide selection of high quality wines and caves.
A few traditional Catalonian dishes that are worth trying wile your visit to Barcelona:
Faves a la Catalana This is a typical dish of vegetables cooked in a clay pot with various types of meat, such as ham, black sausage and cansalada.
Calcots This dish is only served from December to spring time and contains a variety of large spring onions flavoured with romesco sauce.
Esqueixada de Bacalla summer salad of codfish, tomato, onion, olives, pepper and hard-boiled eggs.
Butifarra con mongetes This is a simple traditional dish made of typical Catalonian sausage, string beans, garlic and parsley.
Fricando Fillet of veal cooked with plums, tomatoes, onion and rovellons mushroom.
Crema Catalana This is a custard dessert with burnt sugar topping (similar to crθme brulee).
Mel i mato pastry cooked with milk and covered by a layer of honey.
Panellets Small cakes with almonds, sugar, lemon and cacao.
Cava Catalan white wine with bubbles.
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