Spain's monks and nuns have a naughty sideline in sweets including 'pets de monja' (little chocolate biscuits known as 'nuns' farts') candied saints' bones,...
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Another Born favourite, Casa Gispert radiates a warmth that has something to do with more than just its original wood-fired nut and coffee roaster. Like a...
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...
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Spain has long neglected its cheese heritage, to the point where this is the only shop in the country to specialise in Spanish-only farmhouse cheeses....
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This is where Ferran Adrià buys his ham: simply the best available acorn-fed Iberian hams, made by artisans who control the entire process from breeding to...
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,...
C/Santa Maria 4Founded in 1922, this lovely old shop in the Born sells turrons, blocks of nougat traditionally eaten at Christmas. They come in two types: soft (Xixona) or...
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...
Plaça de les Olles 2Push through the crowds to watch the candymen stretch, roll and chop their kaleidoscopic rock candy into lollies, sticks, humbugs and novelty sculptures....
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