A Cook's Guide to Eating in Barcelona

Author: Phil & Eric
Published: Sun 31 Aug 2025
Episode Link: https://rss.com/podcasts/potluckfoodtalks/2191503

🎙️ EP149 – Tourists chase paella. Chefs chase truth. This is Barcelona through a cook’s eyes: lobster-slick canelons, seawater stews, five-euro dinosaurs, and bars where the plancha still shouts. Some obvious, some hidden. All about how this city eats—and why it matters.

🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode:

🌊🐖 Mar i Muntanya – Catalonia’s surf-and-turf DNA

🍝 Canelons + Lobster Butter – humble pasta, obscene sauce

🐟🔥 Suquet, Monkfish & Seawater – fishermen logic in a pot

🇪🇸🏆 Spain’s Case – why Spanish cooking belongs in the pantheon

🎄🍲 Galets at Christmas – meat-stuffed pasta that makes its own broth

🍋🐟 Fismuler Barcelona – Nino Redruello’s “cuisine doctor” vibe

🧀🔥 Cheesecake Wars – Zuberoa’s blue-cheese whisper, Ama vs. Fismuler, crust included

🥬🔥 Kimchi Butter & Charred Cabbage – fusion with restraint

🇪🇨🍲 Ecuador in BCN – Ñaño’s encebollado + plantain–peanut fish stew

🍺🍤 Counter Culture – Cal Pep & the gospel of the plancha

🧑‍🍳🥄 Bar Pinotxo → Sant Antoni – market bars done right