Spain's monks and nuns have a naughty sideline in traditional sweets including 'pets de monja' (little chocolate biscuits known as 'nuns' farts') candied saints' bones, and...

The opening hours, the chemist and the unbeatable location make up for the slight shabbiness, the confusing layout and the agonising checkout queues.

Casa Gispert radiates a warmth that has something to do with more than just its original wood-fired nut and coffee roaster. Like a stage-set version of an olde school shoppe,...

Colmados - old-school grocery stores - are relics of the old way of shopping before the invasion of the supermarkets. This is one of the few surviving examples in the...

This three-level mall at the sea end of Avda Diagonal has an airy marine theme and a sea-facing roof terrace filled with cafés and restaurants of the fast-food variety. As well...

The mother ship of Spanish retail, this giant white monolith sits on Plaça Catalunya and stocks all the major international brand names, along with plenty of Spanish labels....

Antoni Escribà, the 'Mozart of Chocolate', died in 2004, but his legacy lives on. His team produces jaw-dropping creations for Easter, from a chocolate Grand Canyon to a...

Spain has long neglected its cheese heritage - this is the only shop in the country to specialise in Spanish-only farmhouse cheeses. Scottish owner Katherine McLaughlin...

This is where Alain Ducasse, Joël Robuchon and Ferran Adrià buy their ham: simply the best available acorn-fed Iberian hams, made by artisans who control the entire process...

This monolithic mall is designed to look like the Rockefeller Center fallen on its side, stretching 334m (1,100ft) along Avda Diagonal. It features all the usual fashion...

Thronged with tourists searching for a little bit of Barcelona's gastro magic, and usually ending up with a pre-sliced quarter of overpriced pineapple, Europe's biggest food...

In this charming old shop, metres and metres of the typical Catalan botifarra sausage are made anew every day, along with unusual variations (cider, squid, Cabrales cheese,...

Founded in 1922, this lovely old shop sells turrons, blocks of nougat traditionally eaten at Christmas. They come in two types: soft (Xixona) or hard and brittle (Alicant). In...

This ultra-slick store houses the largest selection of wines in Europe. Knowledgeable, polyglot staff happily talk customers through the thousands of horizontally displayed...