About tasty meals, Barcelona in Spain is a country for people with vivid taste buds. Food lover? Well, this awesome city can best be described as the melting point of foods where you can get traditional as well as a fusion of new foods you will even yearn for more. In this blog post, I will introduce some of the food in Barcelona that you should not miss when visiting the city as a gourmet.

1. Tapas

If you fancy getting your choppers into tiny mouthfuls of spicy goodness, then tapas has to be worth checking out. Tapas are or small portions of food that liberated Spain and which are served as appetizers of snacks to be consumed in groups of friends and relatives. Barcelona offers a large number of tapas, ranging from the traditional exemplary, for instance patatas bravas – fried potatoes with spicy sauce, to rather exotic, for instance, pulpo a la gallega – Galician-style octopus.

Remember to walk around El Raval and Gracia districts which just teem with various bars offering tastings of these small tasty meals. Top three bars for tapas are Quimet & Quimet, Cerveceria Catalana, and Tapas 24.

2. Paella

It would also be a sin to visit the country and not to taste the rice specialty known as paella. Dating back from Valencia, paella is a essential dish for Barselona. This food is prepared by simmering in a shallow pot and is made up of rice, saffron, meat or fish and green vegetables.

You will find the standardized menu with the requisite seafood rice dish throughout barcelona but for authentic seafood paella, visit La Barceloneta, a beach area of barcelona. Here you can reportedly numerous restaurants at the beach and offering innumerable delights seafood paella, and all this against the background of views of the Mediterranean Sea.

3. Patatas Bravas

Next on my list of favorite Spanish dishes which you can truly taste in Barcelona is patatas bravas. This ‘sidereal’ dish contains fried potatoes with brava sauce, a spicy tomato sauce, and garlic aioli.

Patatas bravas are served almost everywhere in Barcelona where there are tapas bars and restaurants to be found. To get as close to the original Tapas bar experience as possible try Bar Tomás located in the Sant Gervasi/Sarrià area. Among other things, they are well-known for an incredibly delicious patatas bravas.

4. Cava

Finally, when eating your sumptuous meals do not forget to enjoy them with some drinks common in your area and in this region, Cava is well recommended. Cava, known as the Spanish Champagne is a sparkling wine that is made in the Catalonia.

In the city of Barcelona, today there are numerous Cava bars and cellars where you can take a tour and taste the product. Some of the places one should visit include Codorníu and Freixenet these companies provide a guided tour of their cellars and tasting of Cavas.

5. Churros

No visit to Barcelona is complete without having a couple of sweets which are in this case churros. They are usuallytaken with tea or for breakfast and are dipped in warm chocolate syrup.

Worthy of mention is again the tradition – Granja M. Viader, a cafe that has been operating since 1870. They offer some of the yummiest churros in the city as complemented by thick rich hot chocolate.

Conclusion

Food enthusiasts will have hours of fun when in Barcelona and frequently exploring different local culinary hotspots is a must-do here. As for food, every traveler for sure will be happy to taste traditional Spanish tapas, to enjoy real paella down on streets, or to try sweet-sounding churros.

Thus, it is crucial to be brave and taste these products which make the flavor of Barcelona to understand the real taste. Whether you are wandering through bustling markets or you’re sitting in historic tapas bars, the food in the city will give your taste buds an amazing experience that you will never want to end again.