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It's FoodBarcelona's 10th birthday this year. Yaay.

It's FoodBarcelona's 10th birthday this year. This isn't the party I'd planned. But the blog has just been voted one of the best in Barcelona. Yaay! Cake!

The FoodBarcelona blog is 10 years old in 2020. This isn’t the party I’d planned.

FoodBarcelona Turns 10: A Decade of Photographing my Lunch

FoodBarcelona started in 2010! It’s our bloggy birthday! A decade of dining!

A lot has changed in the last 10 years but one thing remains the same: I’m still terrible at updating…

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SOFIA Be So

High-concept restaurant in the 5*GL Hotel SOFIA Barcelona offering fine dining that's designed to be sniffed at. Read the full review...

High-concept cooking in the Hotel SOFIA Barcelona that’s designed to be sniffed at.

Review: SOFIA Be So restaurant | Hotel SOFIA Barcelona

The erstwhile Hotel Princesa Sofía, like its real-life namesake, has seen its circumstances change over the decades. Once an InterContinental Princesa, then merely a Gran Princesa, it has recently dropped its accent and even its royal rank to become…

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L'Atelier Barcelona

L'Atelier Barcelona pastry shop and patisserie school is delight for lovers of all things sweet. Read the review...

L’Atelier Barcelona pastry shop and patisserie school is delight for lovers of all things sweet.

L’Atelier, Eixample, Barcelona

Top-class patisserie is all about precision and attention to detail. No surprise, then that L’Atelier Barcelona pastry shop and school is full of cleverly and carefully crafted surprises.

The shop, really a small café, is a treasure trove of design details: a…

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Mr Porter

Smartly dressed and eager to please, the new Mr Porter restaurant carries its own bags into the Sir Victor Hotel, Barcelona. Read the full review...

Smartly dressed and eager to please, the new Mr Porter restaurant carries its own bags into the Sir Victor Hotel, Barcelona.

Review: Mr Porter restaurant, Sir Victor Hotel, Eixample, Barcelona

Mr Porter has big boots to fill. The ground-floor dining room here was until recently home to Roca Moo, the excellent Barcelona satellite of the stellar Roca brothers‘ culinary empire. But that was…

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Cinc Sentits (2019)

Restaurant review: Cinc Sentits. One of Barcelona's top Michelin-starred restaurants gets a new home, but has it kept its shine? @CincSentits

Cinc Sentits, one of Barcelona’s best fine-dining restaurants, relocates and reaches new heights.

Review: Cinc Sentits restaurant, Eixample, Barcelona

This isn’t a restaurant review. Not really. If you want to read me waxing lyrical in long-form detail about how and why I love Cinc Sentits, you should click here. This is just a reminder.

I won’t tell you again that Cinc Sentits…

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Fismuler Barcelona

Fismuler Barcelona in the Hotel Rec is deservedly one of city’s hottest new restaurants.

Review: Fismuler Barcelona | Hotel Rec | Sant Pere – El Born

Fismuler’s Madrid mothership has held a steady orbit in the rarified air of high praise since launching in 2016, transporting diners in the Spanish capital to happiness with fresh, modern, market-based cooking. When it sent a shuttle to land…

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Can Pizza Sagrada Familia

Can Pizza Sagrada Familia

The new Can Pizza Sagrada Familia adds a quality dining option to one of Barcelona’s most-visited areas. 

Can Pizza Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

When I moved to Barcelona over 20 years ago, my first apartment looked out onto the blessed construction site of la Sagrada Família. My shoebox-sized attic had no elevator, no heating, a thin corrugated roof that amplified the ceaseless scratching of…

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Blue Spot Barcelona

Looking for a Barcelona rooftop restaurant with unbeatable views? Blue Spot Barcelona could be what you need.

Blue Spot Barcelona | Restaurant and Cocktail Bar | Barceloneta | Barcelona

“Where can we eat in Barcelona that has great views?” 

If I had a euro for every time I’m asked this question I’d have, well, some euros. People who don’t want to stare at their smartphones during dinner (or at…

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Maná 75º

Rice dishes and smart interior design combine at Maná 75º restaurant near the W Barcelona hotel in Barceloneta.

Review: Maná 75º restaurant, Barceloneta, Barcelona

Manà 75º isn’t somewhere you’re likely to find by chance. Here at the far end of Passeig de Joan de Borbó, away from the beach, there are usually few pedestrians. The only traffic is taxis and buses arriving at the nearby W Barcelona…

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The Blog Awakens...

The Blog Awakens…

This blogging year has not gone to plan. Life, work and family have taken more time and energy than anticipated. Something had to go – and unfortunately it was updates to FoodBarcelona. But things will soon change. 

The blog is waking up again. Like a flower in spring (or perhaps a hibernating bear with a sore head), there are signs of life. Bleary eyed and discombobulated, your heroic reviewer…

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L'Antica Pizzeria Da Michele Barcelona

L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele Barcelona

Napoli’s finest pizzeria lands in Barcelona’s Eixample district. The Southern-Italian charm is impossible to import fully but the pizzas have survived the journey. Bite-sized Review: L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele Barcelona, Eixample, Barcelona Recently, I posted about the time 20 years ago when I visited L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele in Naples. In short, it played a part in transforming my view of…

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Apologies for the absence

Happy New Year, loyal readers! What? A bit late? Well… yes. It is. And I’m sorry for the delay. FoodBarcelona’s Christmas break went on longer than anticipated due to some unavoidable and unwelcome real life circumstances. This means that the first few posts of this year will be shorter than usual and based on review visits made in November and December last year but they ARE coming soon. Thanks…

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Blanc (Mandarin Oriental)

Chef Carme Ruscalleda takes charge of the informal Blanc restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Barcelona hotel with fabulous, unfussy dishes.  Review: Blanc, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Eixample, Barcelona Blanc restaurant in is like an unlucky-in-love Hollywood star: glamorous and beautiful but seemingly unable to settle down with the right partner. The story of its dalliances with chefs even has a…

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Anima

Fina Puigdevall presents the food and philosophy of her two-Michelin-star Les Cols restaurant in Catalonia in this beautiful new book. Book review: Anima by Fina Puigdevall Published by Montagud Editores. RRP €50.90 paperback. Spanish and English. Note: by popular demand, I’m going to write occasionally about new and classic books related to Catalan and Spanish food. You asked for it, you got it.…

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Il Birrino

Scruffy but scrumptious: Il Birrino restaurant in Barcelona serves craft beer plus great value Italian comfort food that’s cooked with care. Review: Il Birrino restaurant and craft beer bar, Eixample, Barcelona Appearances can be deceptive. At first glance, Il Birrino hasn’t got much going for it. It’s well off the beaten track and in the unlikely event you were strolling past, you’d probably…

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Catalan Gastronomy Tour — Food Tours Barcelona

Catalan Gastronomy Tour — Food Tours Barcelona

FoodTours Barcelona’s Catalan Gastronomy tour is an informative and well balanced intro to Barcelona’s local flavours. I’m reluctant to review Barcelona food tours on here. I’m simply not the target audience, which usually comprises tourists in search of an easily digestible, bite-sized intro to local flavours and food facts, not pseudo-know-it-all food writers. Nevertheless, food tours can be…

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New Guardian Article: Casa Vicens

New Guardian Article: Casa Vicens

My new article in The Guardian. Barcelona tourism is fighting back. The fistic flurry begins with a haymaker from heavy-hitter Gaudí in the form of Casa Vicens, the architect’s first major project. Casa Vicens will open permanently to the public for the first time in November 2018. Read all about it in my Guardian article here.