Restaurants, bars, food festivals in Spain

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Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 23 янв 2015, 19:16

Wines of Spain


Solar Spain confidently holds honorary bronze medal on the podium among the most prolific wine producing countries in the world, after neighboring France and Italy. But the number of hectares cast in the country under the vineyards, is a record: for the production of wines of Spain used the fruits grown on the whole million hectares.
The vast geography and exposure standards

Wines of Spain made absolutely in all regions and autonomous units of the country. The most "prolific" in this sense - the province of Castilla-La Mancha. It accounts for half of the total Spanish wine production. Make a considerable contribution to the regions of Catalonia, Andalusia and Extremadura.
Time of the wine of Spain is considered one of the main criteria of quality, but because the law regulates the designation of the product features:

Noble Wines totally matured in oak barrels and bottled at least one and a half years, the volume of the container shall not exceed 600 liters.
Products Class Anejo insisted for two years.
Viejo - the older the wine, the production of which took no less than three years, and their character was formed under the influence of heat, light and oxidation processes.
The red wines of Spain Reserva category should be held in casks and bottled at least three years, the volume of each oak containers must not exceed 330 liters. For white and rosé wines reserve only two years in barrels of the same capacity.
Gran Reserva red aged five years, and pink and white - four years.

Word of sherry

One of the most famous wines of Spain in gourmet and sommelier of the world is considered sherry. This product is fortified wine produced in Andalusia. Sherry different features of the production, based on the fermentation of wort under the film a special type of yeast. It is called floras and retained on the surface of the drum during the entire period of maturing wine. Flor prevents oxidation and helps to get a special strength, flavor and astringency of taste. Barrels of sherry produced are not filled to the end and being in them, the wine "rests" for a few months.
The two main types of sherry produced by the Spaniards, it is distinguished by the amount of time spent under the Flora. Fino wine varieties such as "rest" for about three years, and Oloroso wine - only a few weeks.
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Where to eat in Madrid?


Do not know where to eat in Madrid? In this Spanish city you will find plenty of dining options, including authentic cafes and restaurants where you can try the cooked meat in Madrid, soup with meat and vegetables in a pot ("cocido Madrileño"), a dish of cod and stewed entrails, chopped pieces (rennet), gazpacho ...
Where to eat in Madrid cheap?

Inexpensive meal can be in schools with a "free menu" - here, paying 9.10 euros, you can taste the salad, first and second courses (payment drinks made separately). For example, according to this principle café "All u can eat" - you will be able to try the soup, salad, paella, dessert. If you consider yourself to fans a quick snack in the center you will meet a lot of places where you can get a slice of freshly baked pizza or baguette with dried meat and vegetables inside at moderate prices.

Budget snack, visit Cerveceria 100 Mantaditos - a network cafe offers to taste more than 100 species of mini-sandwiches (mini-bocadillos), which are prepared on the basis of tortilla, sausages chirozo, various cheeses and seafood (cost 1 mini-sandwiches - 1-1.5 euros).

Traditional Madrid cuisine at affordable prices can be enjoyed in the tavern La Bola: here you can eat garlic soup, tripe, dishes based on meat and chickpea stew.
Where to eat in Madrid tasty?

Corral de la Moreria: the menu of this flamenco restaurant you'll find ravioli with foie gras and mushroom sauce, Iberian ham, Andalusian gazpacho, tangerine sorbet. It should be noted that in the institution are held daily evening and night show of music and dance genre (flamenco show).
Tavern "Casa Lucio": this place specializes in cooking the old Castilian cuisine. Here you can try the ham, Spanish meat hodgepodge, oxtail stew, fricassee of poultry.
Sudestada: This restaurant serves Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Malay and Argentine cuisine. If you would be hard to determine the order for a meal try the restaurant staff will ask you to use a special tasting menu.
La Baracca: specialty of this restaurant - paella. Here you can taste more than 10 kinds of traditional Valencian rice dishes (the main varieties of paella - seafood, meat, spicy, sweet, thin, thick).
Cornucopia: this place - restaurant + art gallery. Here in addition to the traditional, you can enjoy international cuisine (there is an extensive wine list and food quality).

Gastronomic tours of Madrid

On the gastronomic tours of the city offers to walk for several tapas bars - here you can enjoy snacks tapas (ham, tapas nuts, shrimp tapas, olives) and taste different wines.

While vacationing in the capital of Spain, you will never go hungry - the city has plenty of cafes, taverns and restaurants, as low-cost family and roads open at 5-star hotels.
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Where to eat in Barcelona?


Thinking about where to eat in Barcelona? The city has more than 2,000 food establishments, where you can enjoy Spanish and Catalan culinary delights.

Be sure to try a variety of snacks (tapas) from pieces of meat or fish, nuts and other ingredients. A great addition to appetizers such act beer or other beverages. Of the main dishes on the menu of local cafes and restaurants you'll find potato tortilla, grilled salmon, Catalan paella, gazpacho cold soup ...
Where to eat in Barcelona cheap?

Inexpensive can eat in cafes and restaurants located on the streets of the Gothic Quarter, in the institutions at Plaza Catalunya (at your disposal - Chinese food, European and Catalan dishes).

It's worth noting that low-cost places can be found at locations away from the center. For example, in the Santa Coloma can enjoy a complete meal for 9.10 euros. If your goal - to save on food, then it is advisable to look at you with the services of the restaurants' menu of the day "or" business lunch "(12 euros).

In Barcelona you can enjoy delicious, hearty and inexpensive meal in the network institutions, working on the principle of the buffet: paying a fixed price, you can take a tray and choose for themselves any dishes (2-3 soup, salads, meat or seafood dishes, dessert, drinks) . So, you can go to Fresc Co, dinner in which the average cost 10-15 euros. And you can visit interesting buffet Dao Kaitensushi - here you can choose your favorite dishes (seafood, salads, fruit, desserts), presented on a moving conveyor.
Where to eat in Barcelona delicious?

Can Eusebio: the restaurant will give you a wide selection of tapas at attractive prices. In addition, here you can taste the squid, chicken wings, cold cuts "Secreto de Cerdo", sangria (the cost of most dishes ranging from 4-4.5 euros and beer - 1 euro).
La Cova Fumada: in this small restaurant you can taste a variety of fish and seafood dishes.
Savigivi: This cozy restaurant offers its guests a taste of Spanish, Mediterranean and Argentinean dishes.
Mosquito: in this place you can enjoy Chinese and other oriental dishes and snacks, as well as different varieties of beer (Belgian, Spanish, American).

Gastronomic tours of Barcelona

If you wish, you can arrange for a walk through the streets of the Born - this quarter is famous for its bars, old cozy taverns, gourmet shop, numerous patisseries and cafes. There is even a chocolate museum. Going on a trip, you can not only taste national dishes in local institutions, but also to taste the wine in the basement of the store deli.

While vacationing in Barcelona, you will not be hungry, because here you can find a variety of dining with a varied menu and attractive prices.
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drink Spain


Holidays in Spain surprisingly diverse. The country has to offer the inquisitive traveler and sunny beaches and snow-covered ski slopes, and, of course, tasting the best dishes for its excellent cuisine. In this case, any Spanish meal certainly accompanied by wine varieties which country in the Pyrenees there are so many. The best drinks Spain - sangria and sherry and bring them as gifts to friends and family - a great idea when choosing a gift.
Drink Spain

When crossing the Spanish border in both directions, it is important to adhere to customs regulations providing for restrictions on the number of imported alcohol. It is not necessary to carry with them on vacation more than a liter of strong alcohol and more than two - of wine, the more that the price of similar products in Spain is much lower than in Russia. Fans can buy soft drinks there are excellent specimens canteens, dry and fortified wines at prices not exceeding 5 euros (as of 2014), and supporters of strong alcohol will not fail to seize the opportunity to try a great whiskey or brandy no more than 20 euros per bottle. Spain can export drinks with virtually no restrictions. One only has to take into account the import customs rules at home.
The national drink of Spain

Choose among the variety of the main national drink of Spain - is not easy. On this honorary title claim and sherry and sangria, and wine, which have their own flavor and color in each province. They are delivered to the table Spaniards and produce for export nearly sixty regions, each of which is rigorously observe tradition and technology produced for centuries.
And still the main wine here - it's sherry, whose homeland - the eponymous town in the south-western region of Andalusia. Fastening the national drink of Spain from white grapes, depending on the duration of exposure and other conditions of the preparation is subdivided into several types:

Fino - dry sherry, whose stronghold is not lower than 18%.
Manzanilla - wines with special sour taste, is achieved by using malosaharistyh grapes.
Pale Cream - sweet drink, which is added to a dessert wine. Considered the "ladies" option sherry.
Oloroso - depending on the technology can be dry and sweet, but always - especially fragrant.

Alcoholic beverages Spain

In Spain, made to accompany the wine any event, but because each table is always decorated with all sorts of cocktails, liqueurs and aperitifs. Cool in the heat helps the pitcher of sangria ice, and find common ground with the locals - a good glass of sherry, after which swept language barriers, and political preferences are not significant.
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