El Cellar de Can Roca

On my last day in Spain, I decided to head to Girona to eat at the number 2 restaurant in the world, El Cellar de Can Roca. The train ride was about an hour, so it was not too bad getting there. We arrived right around 1 at one of the most beautiful restaurants I have ever been to.

We quickly sat down and were treated to multiple glasses of champagne. After we decided on the feast menu, the rest is history. I just want to note that I am not going to explain each dish, but just provide pictures. My favorites were all the desserts, the suckling pig, lamb, steak tartare, sole and the onion soup.

Caramelized olives hung from a tree

Fried Anchovy Bones and Chicken mousse cracker

Spanish Omelette and Calamari

Sole with flavors of the mediterranean

"Onion Soup"

Charcoal Grilled Prawn

Escalavida- anchovy, smoke, pepper, eggplant

Cherries, elderberry, eel

Baby Squids and onion rocks

Red Mullet

Steak Tartare with mustard ice cream

Iberian Suckling Pig

Lamb and peach

Lemon Sorbet

Vanilla, caramel, licorice

I can easily say that this dining experience was one of the best I have ever had. At the end of the meal we got a full tour of the kitchen and got to meet all three of the Roca brothers, which was just insane. The food at El Cellar de Can Roca was some of the most unique, beautiful and delicious I have had anywhere. I can't wait to come back sometime in my life because it truly was a life changing experience.

Barcelona Day One

On the boat, the day before we arrived in Barcelona.

It has been a long ten days of constant class and lots of work. Thankfully we arrived at Barcelona this morning, so when the time came, I literally jumped off the boat. After we all took a cab to our supposed address, it took about an hour and a half to find our house and wait for the tenant to let us inside. The apartment itself is insane. Super modern and super girly, but luckily I am in a house with all girls so they enjoy it.

We went to a quick lunch to grab some food. I did not take pictures of any of the food because we were so hungry.

After lunch we decided to get waffles. I decided on the waffle with chocolate and banana ice cream.

After we finished eating, we decided to walk around the town including Las Ramblas and the Columbus statue.

We were thirsty from all that walking so we got a couple giant beers before we headed over to La Boqueria, one of the best markets in all of Europe.

LA BOQUERIA

Jamon Iberico

Pork Heaven

We are going to dinner tonight at Tapas 24, one of the new modern tapas restaurants. I will take pictures and update later. Just glad to be here and I will hopefully update as much as possible.