22 Dec

Instead of eating at the food market we had lunch just down the road at Euslar. I got a seafood paella (€14.50) and mum got a mixed paella with seafood and two pieces of chicken and a tapas of beef, carrots and potato, sort of like a stew (€9, today’s special). Our paella were the same size so mum’s was more worth it. The tapas came in a clay bowl like the one holding our crèma Catalana dessert last night, and the paella was in the pan. The...

18:57 / Barcelona / Euslar / Food / Restaurants / Spain / Spanish / Travel
22 Dec

Our group tour of Barcelona finished just before 12pm and my family and I walked to the food market on Las Ramblas. There was so much fresh fruit, spices, meat and seafood. Most of the seafood was fresh; the prawns and lobsters were still moving. Some people were selling hot food in the markets, but we didn’t eat there. I did see one place selling eggplant stuffed with rice, wraps with rice in them and paella, but it was an organic food place so it was probably expensive...

18:54 / Barcelona / Food / Food Market / Restaurants / Spain / Spanish / Travel
21 Dec

Dinner tonight was inside our hotel’s restaurant (the hotel was Rivoli Ramblas, on Las Ramblas, which is one of the major roads in Barcelona). Ramblas is the Arabic word for sand. Spanish people apparently eat a late dinner so the earliest the restaurant opened was 8:30. Entrée: Salad with corn kernels, pickled and grated carrots, huge slices of tomato with an olive oil and mustard seed dressing Mains: Grilled salmon on fried, sliced potatoes and a few bits of fried tomato Dessert: Crèma Catalana, which is like crème brulee (the custard...

18:51 / Barcelona / Food / Restaurants / Rivoli Ramblas / Spain / Spanish / Travel
20 Dec

Tonight we ate at a French restaurant near the Acropolis. [caption id="attachment_2422" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Escargot and Cold Ratatouille[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2421" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Chard Tart[/caption] Dad had the €20 special and chose ratatouille (which was cold), duck cooked in mashed potato and a chard tart (silverbeet leaves, also containing pine nuts, raisins, grated apple). Mum had escargot (€9.70, garlic flavoured) and changed from duck to tripe a la nicoise with boiled potatoes when she found out the duck was cooked in mash. [caption id="attachment_2420" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Tripe a la Nicoise; Duck in Potato Mash,...

18:44 / Food / France / French / Nice / Restaurants / Travel
20 Dec

We walked past a big fountain to go to Lafayette, a department store. At the basement food hall we looked at the ready-to-eat food and planned to split up then meet at the 4th level restaurant. There wasn’t a large choice at the restaurant so we went back down to the food hall. A2 had a salmon and spinach quiche (~€3.70), dad had a scallop pie (~€4.30, it was a scallop in the shell with a few veggies, creamy sauce and a piece of puff pastry baked on...

18:38 / Food / France / French / Lafayette / Nice / Restaurants / Travel
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