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...
C/Palla 8Casa 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,...
C/Sombrerers 23Antoni 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...
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 546Spain 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...
C/Dagueria 16This 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...
C/Provença 85In 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,...
C/Santa Maria 4Founded 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...
C/Princesa 36Buying from small-scale producers of olive oil-based delicacies in Provence, Tuscany and Spain, this French chain has ventured below the Pyrenees. As well as oils, fruit...
Plaça de les Olles 2Push through the crowds to watch the Australian owners stretch, roll and chop their kaleidoscopic rock candy into lollies, sticks, humbugs and novelty sculptures. The goodies...
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