After 3 weeks of touring and having a blast, I started staging this morning at 7:30 a.m. at a place called El Quim de la Boqueria. Quim, the owner, is awesome, and pretty famous. All the restaurateurs in Barcelona come to his place to eat, and Quim travels around the world to work with other …
Continue reading 1st day of staging at El Quim de la Boqueria
*Warning: I am in a sassy mood, so this post will be sassy. Read at your own risk.* On Thursday, I stepped off the plane to a gorgeous day in London. I made my way from Gatwick to the hotel where I met C. We walked over to his office and I dropped him off …
Today through my expert navigating skills, Rachel and I went to Montserrat, a mountain with a monastery about an hour by train out of Barcelona. We really had no idea what to expect, but we were pleasantly surprised. We had to take a cable car up, which was made by the krauts in the 1930's …
Continue reading Montserrat… one drink at that altitude and you are done.
Yesterday was another gorgeous spring day in Barcelona, so I decided to put on my very U.S.-looking running shoes (sea foam green and orange) and head out to see some sights. So, I packed my lunch with some llonganissa slices (excellent cured meat - hard salami like), manchego and an apple that I purchased from …
Continue reading Being a tourist or being “local”? Hard to tell
The last few days I have been trying to figure out different neighborhoods in Barcelona. They're not neighborhoods like I'm used to in San Fran, that are usually known for something. Some are, like around the hospital clinic metro stop, there's a medical school and hospital, and around the universitat metro, there's a university. But, …
Continue reading A trip to Sant Celoni yesterday and to my Spanish “disneyland” today
Tonight Rachel and I ate at a Catalan restaurant and it was delicious, but the service was something out of Eastern Europe. After our long journey of navigating the streets of Barcelona and Rachel almost killing me in the process, our waitress, which I nick named "Svetlana" started by asking if we had a reservation …
Where to begin? Well, it seems that I have adopted a very Barelona life-style already.... eating dinner at 9:00 p.m., having an after dinner drink at midnight, clubbing from 2-4:30 a.m. Okay the clubbing was only 1 night. It was extremely fun, as we VIP'd it with some of Carnet's colleagues, which meant the best …
Yesterday I said I would start with tapas from last night, so I will. We went to this cute tapas place in an ally that we randomly walked down. It was called El Bixto. No more than 20 seats total, including the ones that weren't really seats but a piece of plywood covered with material …
It has been a whirlwind 4 days. United lost Mark's luggage and Mr. Angry was a little worried (as I would be if they had lost mine). My husband followed the day after we arrived and we wandered aimlessly around La Rambla the first 2 nights, eating at random tapas bars. Night 1, Mark and …
Yes, it has been a slow year of blogging, so far. But, I'm off to Spain very soon and then my culinary adventure updates will be more regular (I'd like to say everyday, but my goal is a minimum of 5 days a week). So, what did I cook for Carnet for Valentine's? Thai-ish, of …
Salty Apron 