Food & Drink news & information for Catalonia

DINING with the stars is perfectly possible almost anywhere in Spain – if you have the budget to do so.

EASTER'S now over for another year, but the sweet treats filling supermarket shelves and bakery display units will still be around for a few days yet, and probably at reduced prices for clearance.

A BUSINESSMAN from Catalunya left a tip of nearly €4,100 at Marbella's Playa Padre Restaurant as redress for criticism he had seen on social media.

NAMES of Europe's 150 best restaurants have been released – and Spain hogs half the list.

FAST food company McDonald's has launched a burger made entirely with Spanish produce from local farmers in a bid to help them get through the economic turndown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

ACTRESS Cameron Díaz has launched her own line of environmentally-friendly wine made entirely with organic grapes – from Catalunya.

A BAR customer in Granollers (Barcelona province) has paid the owners for 'all the beers he could not drink during lockdown'.

TWO-THIRDS of the podium at yesterday's (Tuesday's) Best Chef Awards was made up of Spaniards, and the three owners of a Barcelona-based restaurant came joint fifth, sealing Spain's place as one of the top...

A CONSIGNMENT of powdered eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil has been seized in Catalunya a week after a haul of liquid egg was confiscated at customs in the Basque Country – but neither had reached the...

CATALUNYA has applied a blanket tax on soft drinks and is considering doing so on cakes and pastries in a bid to try to change eating habits.