Barcelona Food Guide blocal-travel.com

Let’s start with my apologies for not trying out the best of Barcelona’s restaurants and cafés as I originally promised.

The thing was that I couldn’t get enough of eating local cheeses and Spanish ham on the go so, by the time I should have sat down to ‘review’ a restaurant, I wasn’t really looking forward to having a proper meal.

Instead, I did look forward to trying one more piece of queso manchego, the traditional sheep’s milk cheese, originally from La Mancha, preferably accompanied by a slice of either Jamon Serrano or Pata Negra, whose difference –as I just happened to learn- is in how the pig was raised, indoor or outdoor, and fed.
I also loved to taste the different kinds of chorizo sausage directly from market stands and –since I was there- to try some tapas too, discovering that my favourite ones are the béchamel-ish croquettes, which can be made of ham, vegetables or fish