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 sangrÃa.
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 sangrÃa, the world famous Iberian wine punch that dates back to medieval times. Try your hand at mixing your own sangrÃa.
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
SangrÃa 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
Andres was fantastic! Learned so much about Spanish culture on top of really great fundamentals of cooking. Interactive, engaging, funny - all on top of great food and wine. Highly recommend!
Paella class was great, Andres and Mani were awesome and seeing the market was also cool
The market tour was very brief, but the cooking class was fun, and we had a good group of people that we went drinking with after the class. We wish the paella had not been just seafood, but a mixture of seafood and meats for those of us who aren't huge fans of squid, octopus and other such sea creatures. Overall, it was a good experience and the hosts were very accommodating.
Excellent cooking class, would have loved a longer tour of the market, but a great experience as a whole! Thanks!
Milo was an excellent chef! Knowledgeable, sweet, and easy on the eyes! Had no problem accommodating the vegetarians in the class and their paella was equally delicious! Great experience! Highly recommended!
Chef Luca is clearly very skilled and taught us concepts in cooking we never knew. The market was a fun and interesting experience. And it was great to meet and get to know the group we were cooking with.
We had an amazing time with this experience and with Luca our Chef! Such fun and soooo worth it! Including going to shop at the market! And bottomless Sangria! Was a wonderful experience and would recommend it to everyone !
Milo was great! The market tour and cooking class was great
Fabulous! Andreas was amazing, we had so much fun , the food was delicious . Andres made it lots of fun. We learnt so much we had such a great time. I highly recommend Andres as your head chef and guide he was amazing.