September 13, 2011, posted by Natasha
| food and drinks
“If you don’t like it, it’s your own fault”
However you look at it, La Tomaquera is “special”. There’s no telephone, they don’t accept reservations and if you ask to see the wine list, the waiter will march off chuckling to himself, later returning with a carafe of house wine – you’ll drink what they drink. And that’s after he’s served the locals at the table next to you first, even though they arrived ten minutes later.
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September 12, 2011, posted by Natasha
| food and drinks
Despite a generally gloomy outlook for the Spanish economy, the last several months have seen a swell in Barcelona’s cocktail culture, perhaps as a way to drown our sorrows or – more optimistically – as a clink of the glass towards a brighter future.
Until recently, cocktails had been reserved for more chic areas of the city, where some of the most famous cocteleros (or cocktail waiters) offer up their experimental creations for a discerning crowd.
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May 10, 2011, posted by Sairica
| food and drinks
Whether you are content to sip fine wines in an elegant environment within Barcelona or would rather go for a full stomping ruta de vino in the hills beyond, Catalunya is certainly not off the world-class map when it comes to turning grape-growing into wine-tasting.
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April 13, 2011, posted by Miklós
| exhibitions
The Fundació Miro continues with its experimental programming of temporary exhibitions in their latest offering: Genius Loci.
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March 17, 2011, posted by Miklós
| exhibitions
On March 23, the brainchild of inventor Pep Torres will see the light in a brand new museum dedicated to the small, useful, useless, absurd and brilliant inventions.
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March 14, 2011, posted by Miklós
| cinema
Upload Cinema is a film club that brings the best videos of the web to the big screen. Each month there’s is a new theme. The audience can submit films; an editorial team selects the best and compiles a ninety minutes program, which is screened at movie theatres and special venues.
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February 10, 2011, posted by Sairica
| events
Sònar
Sònar started out as something very different to the festival that folk who flock to it today consider it to be. For years it’s been considered the leading avant-garde and experimental festival in Europe and one of the best in the world.
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February 5, 2011, posted by Sairica
| food and drinks
Tucked between the Gothic Quarter and the seafront, Bar Celta is famous for its lip-smackingly good Galician Tapas.
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December 19, 2010, posted by Sairica
| food and drinks
If you love wine, Monvinic will be your Eden. This macro-universe dedicated to the fruit of the vine opened in July 2008, following 5 years in the making and is in the words of its founders “…an international benchmark as a centre for the dissemination of wine.”
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October 16, 2010, posted by Sairica
| food and drinks
Ask your average urbanite if they know where to find some mushrooms and they’ll direct you to their personal travel agent for the trip of a lifetime. Ask a local in Barcelona and they’ll check the nearest location of recent rainfall and pinpoint a field on a map. Hunting for wild mushrooms (setas in Spanish, bolets in Catalan) is de rigeur for Catalans in autumn.
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