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A small-group cooking class where you explore Barcelona's La Boqueria Market with a chef, then make authentic Spanish paella yourself at a cooking studio. Taste local ingredients at the market stalls and learn how to choose them, then complete your paella with a homemade seafood stock and a slow-cooked sofrito. Make your own sangria with seasonal fruit and Spanish wine, and enjoy pan con tomate, a ham and cheese platter and dessert. After the class, you receive a digital recipe so you can cook it again at home.
Meet the chef holding a red umbrella at the main entrance of La Boqueria Market and spend about 45 minutes exploring the market. The chef leads you around the stalls to taste local ingredients and shows you how to choose fresh seafood and saffron like a local.
After the market tour, walk along quiet streets near La Rambla to a spacious, modern cooking studio in the city centre. Aprons and cooking utensils are all provided. Taste Ibérico ham and a cheese platter, and make pan con tomate the traditional Catalan way by rubbing tomato onto crispy bread.
Mix seasonal fruit and Spanish wine to make your own pitcher of sangria. Then learn the secrets of Spanish paella from the chef and cook a seafood paella with prawns, langoustine, mussels and squid, using a seafood and fish stock simmered for 5 hours and a sofrito made over 20 hours. If you do not eat seafood, a mushroom and vegetable paella is available on request in advance.
Sit down family-style to enjoy the paella you made and a seasonal dessert. Cava, wine and sangria are served, along with non-alcoholic drinks. After the class, you receive a digital recipe by email.
※ La Boqueria Market is closed on Sundays and public holidays, so there is no market tour on those days.
Meeting point :
La Boqueria Market main entrance
La Rambla, 89B, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
Meeting point information:
The main entrance of La Boqueria Market is between the buildings at La Rambla 91 and La Rambla 89, near Dunkin' Coffee. It is just a few steps from Liceu metro station (green line). Look for the red umbrella. The class ends at the cooking school (Carrer de les Carretes, 12, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona).
La Rambla, 89B, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain