Barri de La Ribera, ES
Uncover the joy of Spanish cooking with an interactive experience. Follow a chef around the famous Boqueria market to buy ingredients, then learn how to make traditional paella, sangria, and tapas.
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On this 3-hour activity you’ll join a professional chef on an introductory tour of the world famous Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria, Barcelona's oldest and best food market, dating back to the 13th century.
While telling you about the foods on offer, especially the seafood, and the basics of Spanish and Catalan cuisine, the chef will buy some of the fresh ingredients needed to prepare an authentic paella de marisco, or seafood paella, Spain’s traditional rice dish.
Walk with the chef through the winding streets of The Old Town (central location, right next to Las Ramblas) the most fashionable district of the city. Enter you your private dining room that’s adjacent to the big open kitchen where the chef will prepare the delicious paella de marisco, as you watch the process.
Take the edge off your appetite with some traditional Spanish tapas.
Learn how to make your own pan con tomate, the most typical Catalan tapa, and how to build traditional Basque pintxos or montaditos, the tapas with toothpicks. Then you can enjoy your creations accompanied by some lovely sangría.
While you are eating your homemade pintxos, the chef will cook the paella de marisco. You’ll be into the adjacent open kitchen to stand around the large paellera, the traditional round, shallow pan made of polished steel that the paella de marisco will be prepared in.
As the chef begins to prepare the paella you’ll hear about the history of the dish, the ingredients used, and the steps in the preparation.
With the paella simmering in the kitchen you’ll be invited over to the bar where you’ll learn all there is to know about sangría, the world famous Iberian wine punch that dates back to medieval times. Try your hand at mixing your own sangría.
Once the paella de marisco is finally ready to be enjoyed, you’ll head back to the tables, sit down, and enjoy the feast along with your own freshly mixed sangria.
La Boqueria introduction tour (subject to La Boqueria market opening hours)
Walk through the old town of Barcelona
Tapas
Paella cooking display and interactive instruction
Sangría mixing class
Homemade paella de marisco
Recipes (accessible via QR code)
All food and drinks
Transportation
Tips (optional)
Market tours on Sundays and public holidays
This activity is an interactive paella-making class, where people are given different jobs throughout the experience
A vegetarian option is available, please advise if you require a vegetarian meal upon booking
The market tour is not included on Sundays and public holidays as the market is closed
our chef Luka was fantastic. his enthusiasm and knowledge of food was on another level. The kitchen and dining area was stunning. An excellent experience, highly recommend.
Maia and Andres are wonderfull!! The class was full of fun and great laughs oh and unforgettable, can’t wait to get home and teach the family. 5 Star event⭐️🌟💫⭐️🌟
Really Good :)
Maia was wonderful. Our trip to the market was brief due to time but was amazing to see. We were a large group and she involved all of us in making Paella which was delicious. Sangria was on the table ready to drink and we received the recipe for that and the Paella. Very enjoyable time.
Had a very interesting tour of the market in Barcelona with Milo. There were eight of us in the group and we then walked a short distance to our kitchen where we all helped make the paella. Very enjoyable evening and we highly recommend.
We had an amazing time with Andrea as our guide/chef! The market was so cool and was a must see (the candy vendor was insane!). The cooking class was cool and as involved as you’d like! Sangria and wine were delicious. Overall, would recommend to anyone looking for something fun to do on their vacation!
So much fun meeting new people, eating and learning about the culture and food, oh and SANGRIA. it was so fun.
Fantastic tour!!! Our Chef was Luca and he could not have been better. I loved every minute of going to the market La Boqueria and then walking back to a super cool test kitchen to have Sangria / Tapas and hang out with our tour mates … Chef Luca then gathered us around this massive Paella pan and we went to work.. He explained it all to us and gave great tips to us about cooking in general and ones specific to making a paella. We ate the fruits of our labor approx 45 mins later and the Paella we made was 100 times better than the expensive one we ordered Los Caracoles!!!Highly recommend.. this was such a non touristy paella class in the coolest space ever…Not jammed into a cooking school!! Do it!!!
We had a wonderful experience with Luca, our host. After a walk through La Boqueria markets to buy the produce, he taught us to cook paella. The kitchen was well set up and had plenty of room for the 10 guests, all of whom could help in the cutting and preparation of the ingredients. Luca explained the science and love behind cooking with the ingredients and the result was sensational. Highly recommended!