Restaurants, bars, food festivals in Spain

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In Spanish hotels offer food tour pilgrims

In honor of the 800th anniversary of the famous pilgrimage of St. Francis in Santiago de Compostela Spanish hotels Parador, located in historic buildings, developed a special menu. Gastronomic project Menu Peregrino: de Asìs a Compostela ("Pilgrim's Menu: from Assisi to Compostela") is designed to acquaint tourists with traditional food of the first pilgrims.

Menu creation which was attended by star chef, will offer travelers and pilgrims on the "Santiago Way" - the cultural route, passing through several regions of Spain, according to Bueno Latina. The Parador tourists can taste pickled mackerel, clams with spring onions and almond bread, hake with spinach sauce and chickpea juice truffle special cake "Santiago and stones on the path" and other dishes.

The cost of the menu will vary from 39 to 49 euros.

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Summer Guide 2014: Best bars and restaurants on the roofs of Madrid
To spend a great evening in the Spanish capital, you can look at the world from above, so even with a cocktail in hand. This summer in Madrid with nearly two dozen interesting places with the best views of the city at night. Look at some of them.

In the center, two blocks from the Puerta del Sol, is The Roof - a bar with great cocktails, chill-out area and DJs. The place is easy to find, coming on the Plaza Santa Ana. Another version of the panoramic view and good food - Azotea del Círculo on Alcala street. Here you can plunge into the cultural life of the city, which is concentrated in the Gallery of Fine Arts (Círculo de Bellas Artes).

The best gourmet cuisine is served in the rooftop restaurant of the Madrid Casino - works here legendary chef Paco Roncero, his institution has 2 Michelin stars.

One of the most remarkable architectural and artistic "arteries" of the city - the Gran Via. Cover the eyes all the harmony of the street you can, up to an incredibly comfortable and stylish hotel terrace Vincci Vía 66.

In the west of Madrid is a luxury Terraza de Poniente. Hence the visible campus, West Park, and in the distance - the top of the Sierra de Guadarrama. This roof terrace is located in the hotel building Exe Moncloa. Terrace occupies 300 m², and it even has a small swimming pool.

Another perfect day in Madrid can be carried out with a stroll through the museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, and then climbed onto the roof of the building, where the El Mirador de Thyssen. This restaurant overlooking the Prado Boulevard operates independently of the museum, so you can go there after you get acquainted with the huge collection of Villahermosa Palace.

In the heart of Madrid and, most importantly, in the summer, running La Terraza del Urban, with cocktails and tapas, the latter is valid for every taste - from oysters to mini-burgers. Far away from the Gran Via in the Plaza Cibeles, you can find a roof that combines luxury and comfort - it's café Room Mate Oscar. There you can lie down on the couch or take a dip in the pool, enjoying the view of the Madrid sky. And on the terrace Fuse Skynight arrange discos. This place is on the 13th floor of the Hotel Silken Puerta de América at the entrance to the city. There's also allowed to smoke.

If you decide to go to the library UNED, do not forget to look at the Madrid rooftop terrace cafe Gaudeamus.

Another very affordable dining option overlooking the city - Café del Río, where lunches are cheap, and those who are not very hungry, can order half portions.

Unique cafe Ático de las letras, existing since 1917, is right on the Gran Via, and its design is about the literary heritage of Spain. Its rooftop terrace called the Air Lounge. If you want to take a picture of the Royal Palace at an odd angle, and relax in a round wicker chair, look at the rooftop restaurant of the hotel Jardines del Sabatini.

Other cozy place in the center - terrace restaurant Palacio de Cibeles, with comfortable couches and a varied menu. The room is located directly under the clock of the Palace communications. And to fall in love, you need to go on a date in El Viajero, located in the Latin Quarter. It is said that there is between the player Iker Casillas and Sara Carbonero journalist arose a great feeling. If you want peace, take a look at the Chueca district with a huge terrace in the building market of San Antonio Augusto Figueroa Street. In general, if you are going for a walk in the evening Madrid, think of a place where you can watch the sunset a little closer.

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The new site will tell you where in Barcelona tapas with beer
Although the practice of feeding traditional tapas with beer in Spanish bars few people are surprised, it is not spread everywhere. Thanks to the new site cervezasmastapaporbarcelona.com, going to look into one of Barcelona's establishments, you can now know in advance, bring a snack if your drink.

A total of twenty-four bars of Barcelona "pledged" to the old tradition of free tapas to serve beer and registered on the site.

Snack "montadito" with pork tenderloin, sausage or homemade croquettes - these are just some of the goodies that these bars offer their customers, supporting the glorious tradition of Andalusian cities or Madrid, where free beer snack - this is a long ingrained habit.

The team visited incognito bars to personally know the number of complaints of snacks and ensure their quality. With their independent opinion about each bar can be found on the above page.

With each passing day the initiative joined by increasing numbers of bars in Barcelona, competing with similar sites cervezamastapapormadrid.com, which totals around 150 institutions.

A total of twenty-four bars of Barcelona "pledged" to the old tradition of free tapas to serve beer and registered on the site.

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"Week of organic products" will be held in Madrid, Castilla - La Mancha, Andalusia, Catalonia and Navarre

From 22 to 27 September 2014 in Barcelona (Catalonia), Cordoba (Andalusia), Pamplona (Navarra), Ciudad Real (Castilla - La Mancha) and Madrid held events devoted to organic products and local Spanish cuisine. Celebrations have been held for the first year as part of a large-scale project gastronomic "Week of organic products" (Semana de los Alimentos Ecológicos), organized by the Ministry of Agriculture of Spain.

Seven days in stores and hypermarkets participating cities will be free tastings of organic food and dishes made from them. To join the celebrations and restaurants that will offer its guests an exciting culinary shows, discount programs and the chance to try the unusual and useful goodies.

The main part of the official events will be held in Madrid. Among them stands out gastronomic presentation on the market Mercado de la Paz, where on Wednesday, September 24, the famous chef Luis Marquez, specializing in eco-friendly kitchen, introduce visitors to new items of his work. Also interesting will be the final show on September 27 in the park Parque del Matadero Municipal en Madrid Río, which will be organized entertainment and tasting shops pavilions.

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Galicia in September waiting for seafood lovers

During the second weekend of September in the Galician city of Vigo will host the traditional holiday seafood (Fiesta del Marisco) - one of the region's largest cultural and gastronomic events, reports sob.korr. Travel.ru.

The festival will run stands where you can buy at low prices seafood and fish - more than 40 different items. Visitors will be concerts, dances, competitions and children's program.

Vigo (Vigo) - an important port and industrial city in north-west Spain. Located in the province of Pontevedra, relating to the autonomous region of Galicia. Vigo has positioned itself as a "fish town": its economy is directly related to fisheries; most of the fresh fish is delivered to Europe because of the port of Vigo.

Themed holidays Vigo also associated with fish and seafood. In addition to the Fiesta del Marisco (12-14 September), you can visit the Festival of mussels (Fiesta del Mejillón, the first weekend of September); in early August, the city holds the feast of sardines (Fiesta de la Sardina), and in July - a common culinary festival dedicated to dishes of fish and seafood (Fiesta de la Cocina Marinera).

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Catalonia: Guests will be able to Montserrat mountain to meet with local cuisine

Picturesque mountain of Montserrat (Montserrat) and the old monastery of the same name, located at its foot, considered to be one of the main attractions of Catalonia. According to opinion polls, in the vicinity of Barcelona, where the monastery every year there is more than 2 million tourists. They get acquainted with architectural features, history and landscape beauties of this place, and now, thanks to a new tourism project La Gastronomia de Montserrat, Montserrat, guests have the opportunity to taste the unique local dishes.

The famous hard cheese (requesòn), which has long been done in this region, wild honey, olive oil, herbal infusions and spices lovers will appreciate the unusual culinary solutions and "dishes with a history." Catalan cuisine has its own traditions and interesting details, and the organizers of the project is not without reason to believe that cooking "a note" in the standard tourist tour of Montserrat will attract more travelers here.

In the small town of Monistrol de Montserrat (Monistrol de Montserrat) province Bages (Bages) at the foot of the famous mountain opened several restaurants, which serve a symbolic place for this dish: soup of dried cod bacalao, beef stew with vegetables judia del ganchillo, pork stewed chickpeas, homemade liqueurs and other delicacies.

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In Barcelona, ​​will be fair street fast food

Another Fair street fast food Eat Street Barcelona on October 11 will be held in the Plaza de les Glories--Catalanes, according to Spanish media.

One of the innovations is the participation in the fair community chefs Comunidad de Chefs Eat Street, which was founded in August. It was created specifically for independent chefs who want to take part in the event and to support the development of a culture of quality street food. The main requirement for the participants - dishes should be of high quality and sold at affordable prices.

Team digital edition BCN Més already started to upload to the website information about the first members of the community Comunidad de Chefs and will soon report the names of participants in the October exhibition.

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Madrid fans waiting for a delicious and varied food

As part of the shopping center Moda Shopping on the Paseo de la Castellana (Castellana) in Madrid will be a new space Bulevar Gastro-Shopping. Here visitors will be the latest fashion trends and in cooking.

The restaurant Costa Coffee serves sandwiches, muffins, desserts and milkshakes. Lovers less sweet dishes will be enjoyed institution Nest Organic, offering environmentally friendly products of its own production. At the same time you can enjoy meals with musical accompaniment of songs 50s bossa nova rhythms and reports Noticia.ru. The range of bars Valaquia - Iberian ham, cheeses from Castilla - La Mancha and the famous Spanish wines. Relax after a hard day in the restaurant Broker: this institution, as well as the shopping center, has been working for the past 25 years and is deservedly popular. His specialty - seasonal products and meat on the coals.

Madrid is known for its serious attitude to food culture and on the right is the number of directions of interest to tourists, gourmets. In the city you can enjoy a wide variety of cuisines, prepared at a high level. In the latest Michelin restaurant guide 19 Spanish catering establishments awarded Michelin stars. Of this number, 5 restaurants located in the capital of Spain.
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Barcelona will offer free Wi-Fi in restaurants

Barcelona is one of the European cities with the highest concentration of smart phones: over 80% of local residents have at least one such device, and another 17% to access the Internet regularly use open networks. For this reason, the city administration is constantly increasing the number of available hot spots, according sob.korr. Travel.ru.

Now restaurants in Barcelona, a project called GuaiFi: unified network of free Wi-Fi for visitors. Connecting catering is done in stages: GuaiFi currently operates 150 restaurants in the Catalan capital, and in the future will bring together a network of more than 12,000 local restaurants, bars and cafeterias. For users of the service will be free; and does not require complicated registration (it will be enough to enter their data once, then any of the points included in GuaiFi, the device will automatically go online).
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Dishes of Spain


Spaniards are traditionally made from food cult. They love to eat and can take food from early morning to late evening. Local residents have taken twice for breakfast, abundant dining, dining and snacking between meals.
The most popular food

Spanish dishes rich in meat, and so it is very hearty. Although the national cuisine of the country belongs to the Mediterranean, but it is very different from the kitchen Italy, Greece and other countries. First place in the Spanish gastronomy withdrawn Hamon - jerked pork ham. It is characterized by long and complex process of production, and therefore is not cheap.

The second most popular in the country occupies the paella. According to the classic recipe it is made from rice with rabbit meat and olive oil, without the addition of seafood. Different regions have their own recipes for this dish. Her do with vegetables, seafood, chicken and sausage. Popularity in the country are complex and nutritious side dishes. In addition, cooks often mixed incongruous. For example, in a soup plate, along with seafood you can find pieces of smoked sausage or beef meatballs, carrots, green peas, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes and greens.

Spanish Food different spicy flavor, since they are prepared with the use of large amounts of aromatic plants. Sauces for use pine needles, garlic, almonds, onions, saffron yellow and red pepper. Residents of the central parts of the country usually use lamb and rice. On the Mediterranean coast in the priority of fish, rice, pork and veal. In the northern part of Spain's popular potatoes, beans and beef. Vegetable cooks use bell peppers, tomatoes, different cabbage, eggplant, zucchini, celery, beans, peas. Spaniards love pickled vegetables: cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini and peppers. An important part of Spanish cuisine are milk products. Widespread species have different cheeses.
Interesting features of the Spanish table

The day begins with a light breakfast, which consists of chocolate with milk or coffee, cakes, open sandwiches or pancakes. Soup and snacks are served at lunch, about 14-15 hours of the day when there is a siesta. At this time, on the table there is a dish garnished with vegetables, fish or eggs. Siesta lasts about 2-3 hours. First used aperitif - pan con tomato sauce or fried pieces of bread with tomatoes and garlic. Also served sauce of olive oil. Dinner takes about 22 hours. The main ingredients of dishes - tomatoes, garlic and olive oil. They are included in almost all dishes, and are sometimes used separately. A popular snack in Spain is tapas. It is defined as fish or meats, tiny sandwiches, anchovies. After the tapas on the table appear salads: octopus, potatoes, arugula and jamon.