Food & Drink news & information for Asturias

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.

HOME-PRODUCED foodstuffs from Spain appear to be on a roll just lately – hot on the heels of a Spanish olive oil being named number one on earth, the country can now take credit for churning out the planet's top...

SPANISH celebrity chef José Andrés has travelled to Beirut to hand out food parcels following the devastating explosion which has left at least 150 dead and 5,000 injured.

SPANISH celebrity chef José Andrés has offered a job to the dinner lady fired for letting a schoolboy have a US$8 lunch he was unable to pay for.

A RESTAURANT in Asturias has made a record-breaking bid for a chunk of locally-produced cheese – a 'wheel' of Cabrales has reached the eye-watering sum of €14,300 at auction.

A BAR customer rang the police when she was charged what she thought was daylight robbery for a martini cocktail – and officers gave the owners a ticking off, reports national daily newspaper La Nueva España.

A NORTHERN Spanish town has entered the Guinness Book of Records for the best street food in the world, having attracted 11,836 customers at yesterday's (Monday's) open-air food fair.

A WELSH tourist in Spain who photographed a popular brand of chocolate peanuts and called its name 'racist' has gone viral on Twitter.

TEENAGERS under 18 in the northern region of Asturias will no longer be able to buy or consume alcohol from this May thanks to a change in the law which has been on the table for a decade in the only part of Spain where...