People arrive at Rafa’s restaurant in Roses for different reasons. Some foodies can’t get in to El Bullí, just up the road, so they come here instead. Some gourmands come here because it’s …

EatCatalunya Contributor Mark Bradley recalls three decades of visits to Barcelona’s Alt Heidelberg Bar & Restaurant.

It’s not the sort of place that generates ‘TripAdvisor’-style adulation, nor is it among the foodies’ favourite feasting places …

As we’ve mentioned quite a few times here on EatCatalunya, Catalunya is home to literally hundreds of food festivals taking place every month all over the region. As seafood lovers and a food festival …

Grácia started out as a faraway outlying town back when Barcelona was much smaller. Now it’s considered quite central, as the city has expanded over the past few hundred years. Once a working-class neighborhood, it’s …

Most visitors to Barcelona will inevitably end up at Montserrat, a lovely monastery perched high upon a mountain just outside of Barcelona. While the trip in itself is nice, we like to combine it with …

Benedictine monks grew grapes in the areas around their monasteries, and this is why we find many D.O. areas close to these marvelous architectural jewels. Such is the case of the Benedectine monastery in Sant Pere de Rodes in the Ampurdán region, or the Poblet or Santes Creus monasteries.

Travelers to Barcelona mostly stay on the beaten path, and barely venture outside of the safety of the Barri Gotic and Eixample. Said travelers are missing a lot, because Barcelona has a lot more to …