BARCELONA FOOD TOUR - We Eat in Barcelona - Spanish Wine & Food, Tapas Street Carrer De Blai Pinchos

Good morning. Today's agenda is my favorite agenda. It encompasses my my favorite hobby and it is eating. Today we feast. We're gonna start by going just for a very simple coffee and a pastry maybe at a cafe because we have a big lunch planned so let's go. So we're just waiting for our food to come out right now and you're probably sick of That's weird. I don't know really know how to describe it. It's literally the best coffee everywhere I've been here in Spain. It's the best coffee I've ever had. Our intention was to start with a really light breakfast just grab a coffee and maybe a croissant but we got in there and we saw the case and they had these little breakfast sandwiches that look fantastic. Spain is world famous for its ham and they have this croissant with Spanish ham and cheese and then they like smushed it up into a panini press. It looks so good we had to get it so there went our light breakfast. Okay so I know I mentioned I got this for the ham but the cheese on it is absolutely amazing. The crispy pressed croissant, really salty ham. This is a fantastic breakfast. So I got this one because it was recommended to me inside. I just asked what they like the most and this is what they recommended. So it is a serrano ham. I'm not sure exactly what else on it but we're gonna give this a go. I absolutely loved my time in Turkey but I have to say I absolutely missed ham. This is delicious. Just finishing up with breakfast which was absolutely delicious. Guess what's up next? Lunch. From my understanding lunch is typically the biggest meal of the day in Spain. We've got a reservation at a place that has a reputation for traditional Catalonia, Catalonian food. Even better. Let's go eat. Let's eat. Well too bad we just ate breakfast. We were doing a quick little bit of shopping. There's a shopping center right below our hotel and there's this gorgeous little food market down there that I would have gorged on had we not had different plans for today. So maybe we'll check that in another time but looks good. Something that's common here in Barcelona and possibly Spain in general, I guess we'll find out as we travel more, is something for lunchtime called the which you get a starter, a main dish and this one comes with, oh this just came out. Wasn't expecting that. Nice warm plate of olives. Also comes with a bottle of wine and a dessert. It's a great price. We'll tell you about the bill when we're done. Let's eat. I ordered this white bean stew. It's a little bit chilly out today so a nice warm hearty stew is super welcome. It's full of white beans and then these chunks of just tender fall apart pork is perfect for a chilly day like today. Slightly brothy, super savory. This is perfect. It also comes with this very traditional Catalan bread. They rub it with tomatoes, sometimes a little bit of garlic. It's perfect to go with the stew. Okay so we're still on our fourth first course. Jeff and I swapped plates. I gave him the white bean stew and I'm eating the lagastines, potatoes, some kind of um maybe like a lobster puree, lobster based emulsion. Like this is some something unlike anything I've ever had before. It's cold, kind of like a salad but it's got this like seafood flavor kind of permeated through the whole thing because of the puree lobster base. It's really like nothing I've ever had before and it is spectacularly delicious. So when you come to Spain they're going to make fun of you because you're a tourist and they're going to put this on you in front of everybody around and you get to wear this. So I'm really hoping that when this dish comes out that there's a good reason that he put this thing around my neck. I'm a great big baby. Okay they were absolutely making fun of me. Bibs coming off now it's steak. To be honest I wasn't even sure what I ordered because I don't speak the language at all but this looks absolutely amazing. We're gonna dig in. So the main course has come out. What I have is like two pieces of very simply prepared grilled or sauteed pork. It's very fatty and like there's not a lot going on except for the pork. They're really kind of allowing the pork to speak for itself. It's very good. I also got a potato. Initially I thought that it had butter on it but I'm eating it. I think it may almost be like a garlic aioli. It's delicious. I also got a roasted tomato, grilled green peppers. It's a lovely lunch. Okay so this steak is absolutely massive. Had to take the bib off because I wasn't going to keep sitting in that thing. The steak is a little undercooked for what I would normally like but the great thing is is they bring it all out on this steaming cast iron pan so if it's a little undercooked you can just flip it around cut pieces off flip it around and it'll cook through a little bit more for you. It's absolutely delicious though. Super tender, so flavorful. This is fantastic. This is about all I can do with this but it's been absolutely delicious. We have successfully navigated our way through this lunch to last course dessert. I've got a flan which is great. I ordered it because Jeff is not a fan of flan so I can have this flan all to myself. We are just leaving that restaurant. I am going to blatantly mispronounce their name right now. I think it was called Lantic Magatzam. We will leave a link in the comments down below. It was literally the biggest lunch I've ever had along with a bottle of wine. I'm starting to understand why the Spanish do their siestas. For dinner tonight we decided to stop by what's known to be a very popular street here in Barcelona for tapas. It's called Carrera de Blay and it's just like a little street. It's lined entirely with little tables, little tapas bars so we're gonna go get a glass of wine and some nibbles. So we've stopped into this cute little place. They've got a whole counter there with little pinchos which is like just nibbles of food. They're all stacked on top of bread and then they have like a toothpick through them so you go up and you grab whatever looks good to you and just bring it to your table. Self-service. So we got five different ones. A little bit of a variety pack I guess you could call it. We've got one that has sausage, one that's got the Spanish ham on it, one that's got a ham croquette, one that's like a fried vegetable patty and then this one looks like octopus. All right first place we've visited tonight is La Tosca de Blay. A little tapas area, glass of wine, great food and we do realize this is a little bit of a touristy thing to do. We also know that the pinchos that we ate in there are not native to Barcelona. They are native to the Basque region in the north of Spain. Tapas of course being native to Andalusia but we're just having a good time drinking some wine. So can we talk about this fried cheese? I love cheese. I love fried. These two things together. It's crispy. The batter is really light and crunchy. Cheese inside. The cheese inside is super salty and delicious. This is fantastic. So we were sitting here at this table and I was taking a photo, a video of this lovely artwork that we saw behind us and this amazing woman Valerie said this is my work. How cool is that? She's sitting here with her friends. They're amazing artists and like what an amazing. Thank you so much Valerie. How cool is that? We were just sitting at the table taking photos of the art. The people were amazing. The food was amazing. Everybody is so friendly which is surprising sometimes you know. It's easy to not like a tourist in your city, right? Very much so. Everybody hates a tourist and these people were just so lovely and warm to us. An amazing experience we're having tonight. The place we just left is called Carter Macy and food was absolutely delicious. The owner, superb. He is absolutely fabulous. Yeah. Fabulous. I'm gonna spit the words out. Two glasses of wine. Alright so I'm gonna close this video out right here because Angela is trying to navigate us and it looks like she's super full. We've got a walk to try and catch a bus back to our hotel. So you will see more food as we are here in Barcelona for the next couple of days. So leave a comment down below if you have anything to add here and don't forget to like and subscribe to see what happens next. Good night!