Food & Drink news & information for Spain

HOW do you get your hands on up-market wine from a producer on the other side of the Atlantic, without leaving your house or reaching for your purse?

AS YOU'LL almost certainly realise if you've been in Spain for more than 12 months, it's nearly impossible to find your favourite fruit and veg all year round – they appear by the boxload in supermarkets...

TOILET paper, milk, sugar, wine, beer, pet food...despite pleas from supermarket staff for the public to stop stockpiling, because nothing was going to run out any time soon, customers suffered a few headaches in the...

FOOD collection drives for the underprivileged are still being launched, even though they cannot take place in person or involve actual drop-off points in supermarkets – instead, cash donations are being taken online...

POLICE in some parts of Spain have been given a collective slap on the wrist for booking people who go to supermarkets to buy goods which they do not consider 'of primary necessity'.

RESTAURANTS and bars in Almería city and province are staying in daily contact with their regulars and offering them home deliveries – a strategy that is proving successful and allowing them to stay 'open'...

WHILE many employees in Spain at present are worrying about their wages being cut along with their hours due to the national lockdown, high-street supermarket chain Día has given its staff a substantial pay rise.

SEVERAL supermarkets in Spain have started opening slots exclusively for shoppers aged 65 and over, and most have changed their regular hours – as well as their procedures – during the lockdown.

SPAIN'S first-ever on-street pizza vending machines have gone live – in Málaga city, Girona and in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa - with up to 12 varieties on offer and very reasonable prices.

A LEADING nutritionist is set to give a talk on diet myths and how to eat healthily without putting on weight at the forthcoming Natura Málaga trade fair.

'READY meals' have never really been a 'thing' in Spain, with supermarket produce historically focusing largely on raw ingredients and very geared up to home cooking – but now, with the two newest...