SPAIN
Spain’s food culture is world-renowned. There’s plenty to feast on, including tapas, paella, jamon Ibérico, and diverse Spanish wines.
Explore Madrid’s street food, Valencia’s famous paella, Basque Pintxos, and Catalonia’s distinctive Mar i Muntanya cuisine, which blends seafood and mountain ingredients.
Let these articles whet your appetite and guide you through the rich flavors and traditions that define Spanish food.
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7 Unforgettable Cooking Vacations in Spain
Spanish cuisine is rich, varied and made with excellent products and traditions. Taking cooking vacations in Spain with local chefs takes you deeper into the regional recipes and products. The gastronomy is the main reason we continue to visit Spain, each time discovering new local recipes in cooking classes. To help you fully immerse yourself…
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7 Best Valencia Food Tours For Amazing Paella, Wine and Tapas
One of our most memorable experiences during our 3-month stay in Valencia, Spain, living like locals, was the incredible food. It was our first time visiting Spain’s third-largest city, and we were eager to explore its food and wine specialties. Taking Valencia food tours helped us immerse ourselves in the local food culture. If you’re…
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Savor Madrid: A Must-Read Food Tour Review
There is nothing better than going behind the scenes and learning about a destination through its food. That’s why we love taking food tours to explore a city and dive into the local specialties at the same time. On our recent food tour in Madrid with Devour Tours we explored the hidden culinary gems in…
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Tastiest Paella Cooking Class in Valencia Review
Paella is one of Spain’s most famous dishes, and it is originally from the Valencia region. We spent several months in Valencia exploring the local cuisine. One of our favorite activities was learning how to make authentic Valencia paella in a cooking class. As paella is one of Spain’s most celebrated dishes, taking cooking classes…
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Effortless Mini Basque Cheesecake Recipe
This mini Basque cheesecake recipe is for a creamy and smooth, cheesecake originally from San Sebastian, Spain. Unbelievably delicious, it has a burnt caramelized top and a gooey, creamy interior. This slice of heaven comes together easily with just a few ingredients to create a Basque dessert you’ll never forget. What is Basque Cheesecake? The…
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San Sebastian Food Guide: 12 Must-Try Basque Dishes And Culinary Experiences
San Sebastian, the food capital of Spain, is a culinary jewel in northern Spain. San Sebastian food is famous worldwide for pintxos or Basque tapas and a high concentration of Michelin-starred restaurants. Our trip to the Basque country was to learn about San Sebastian traditional food and what makes it so renowned. In our detailed…
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Top Cooking Class in San Sebastian to Taste Basque Flavors
The seasonal and delightful flavors from sea to mountains come to life when you take a cooking class in San Sebastian. Basque cooking in northern Spain is one of the most celebrated cuisines in all of Spain. Learning how to cook the traditional dishes was one of the highlights of our culinary travels to the Basque…
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10 Best Food Tours in San Sebastian for a Gastronomy Feast
Taking food tours in San Sebastián is one of the best ways to discover Basque cuisine and the local culture. Famous for its impressive architecture and beautiful beaches, San Sebastián, or Donostia, is also one of the top culinary cities in the world. While in the Basque Country exploring the authentic food specialties, food tours…
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Pintxos Paradise: The Most Epic San Sebastian Pintxos Tour To Take
Taking a pintxos tour in San Sebastian is a gastronomic delight in one of the top food destinations in Spain. In a city with more than 200 pintxos bars and a rich pintxos culture, it can be challenging to navigate the countless options. We took a pintxos tour with a local guide to help us…
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Gambas de Palamos Spain: Tasting The Best Shrimp in The World
Gambas de Palamos, the jewel of the Mediterranean coast, are considered the best-tasting shrimp in the world! Also known as red prawns, Gambas de Palamos come from Costa Brava, Spain, and are protected to ensure their sustainability. To understand these prized delicacies, we spent a day on a fishing boat fishing for Palamos prawns in…
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Costa Brava Food Guide: 10 Must-Try Dishes & Culinary Experiences
Costa Brava food is a wonderful fusion of flavors from the “Sea and Mountain,” or Mar i Muntanya. While mostly Mediterranean, Catalan food has been shaped over centuries. Greeks, Romans, Italians, and the French have each left their mark on this complex cuisine. While in Costa Brava, Spain, traditional Catalan food was at the core…
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10 Best Restaurants in Costa Brava For Authentic Catalan Food
The best restaurants in Costa Brava have placed the region firmly on the culinary map. There are 18 Michelin Stars distributed among 15 restaurants in Costa Brava. But you don’t have to dine at Michelin-starred restaurants in Costa Brava to enjoy the best Catalan food. We discovered many amazing Costa Brava restaurants while exploring the…
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5 Best Wineries in Costa Brava For Amazing Catalan Wine Tasting
Winemaking runs deep in the Costa Brava Spain region and is woven into the cultural identity of Catalonia. We had the pleasure of exploring Emporda Wines at some of the best wineries in Costa Brava. The stunning wineries seat between the sea and mountains in Costa Brava produce a range of wines from old vines…
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Taste Goat Cheese From Spain: The Story behind Mas Alba Girona Cheesemaking
Tasting goat cheese from Spain is a culinary experience like no other. While exploring Costa Brava food in collaboration with the Costa Brava Tourism Board, we had the opportunity to meet the goat cheese makers at Mas Alba Girona. Visiting local producers offers a fantastic opportunity to learn about local foods from the artisans and…
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The Ultimate Girona Food Tour To Indulge in The City’s Finest Gastronomy
“How did Girona get its status as a food city?” This is a question we asked our Girona food tour guide while exploring traditional Catalan food in Costa Brava. While seemingly simple, the answer to the question is steeped in layers of history and tradition. More recently, Michelin restaurants and contemporary chefs have propelled Catalan…