Tapas tour: Gastronomic treasures in Catalonia
We invite you to explore the unique gastronomic treasures with us during a virtual tapas tour. Cuisine is not only food and drink, is geography, history and culture. To taste and enjoy a country’s culinary products is to explore all its traditions at once. From time immemorial, Catalan cuisine has influences that have helped to shape the country’s rich and diverse culinary traditions.
In our variety of tours you can find some unique gastro experience tour, like the Deluxe 1 and 2, the tapas tour or the rooftop tapas. We stand in with local bar’s and bodega’s owners, because we want to represent responsible tourism and show you the real face of Barcelona. We think the only and best way if you leave to be lost and get in touch with local people. Watch them, copy them, be brave to try new things, because you can find and try in your own country the big multinational and freelance companies.
They can not show you a real image about the traditional cuisine even if they sell sandwiches with “jamon Serrano” or a big burger with “queso manchego”. …and we help you with this: find the shortest way to the local people.
According to the Gastronomic Tourism club Catalogue 2010- Catalonia is gastronomy every season has its own beauty: “In autumn, mushrooms arrive; in winter, it is time for calçotades and xatonades; spring awakens with tasty fruit, and summer explodes with festivals by the sea.” /pg. 8
“In Catalonia, visitors will find a unique map of restaurants and eateries that enables them to enjoy both traditional and contemporary cuisine, from the most creative and imaginative dishes to wholesome home cooking. We can often find excellent restaurants housed in the finest hotels, sometimes run by renowned chefs. Then there are the fondas, which are found all over the tourist areas of Catalonia.
These modest establishments offer both accommodation and restaurant services, and boast their own personal cuisine, developed through constant contact with the natural and cultural environment. Also closely linked to traditional cuisine, and offering visitors enriching gastronomic experiences, are Catalonia’s historic markets, such as the Boqueria, Sant Caterina and Barceloneta markets in Barcelona and the central markets in Sabadell and Granollers. These are all ideal places to enjoy a good esmorzar de forquilla (brunch). We should also mention the many barrestaurants serving tapas (appetisers) and platillos (snacks). Visiting such establishments is a funny, relaxed and original form of dining. Neither should we miss the chance to discover the many sidewalk cafés and bars that serve aperitifs and vermouth, an aromatic wine. This is a deeply-rooted custom in Catalonia, with regulars frequently dropping in for a vermouth and a tapa or two before lunch.”/ pg. 13
If you want the read more about this topic, we highly recommend to you the document mentioned in our article.