Crema catalana
VegA milk custard set with starch and flavoured with lemon peel and cinnamon, chilled, then burnt to a glass crust with an iron just before it reaches you.
€4–7
Best around: El Born and Barri Gòtic
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Search Barcelona dishes by craving — crema catalana, escalivada, fideuà and more.
5 dishes worth going out of your way for in Barcelona, 3 of them vegetarian. Each one lists where to eat it, because the dish and the room that does it well are not the same question.
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Escalivada
VegAubergine, red pepper and onion roasted whole until the skins blacken, then peeled, torn into strips and dressed with oil. Served cool, usually on bread.
€4–8
Best around: El Born and Poble-sec
Fideuà
Non-vegPaella built on short toasted noodles instead of rice, cooked in seafood stock until the tips stand up out of the pan. Served with a spoonful of allioli to stir through.
€16–28
Medium spice
La bomba
Non-vegA fist-sized ball of mashed potato stuffed with minced meat, breadcrumbed, fried, and served under two sauces — a hot red one and allioli.
€3–6
Best around: La Barceloneta
Pa amb tomàquet
VegBread rubbed with a cut ripe tomato until the flesh is gone and only colour is left, then olive oil and salt. Four ingredients, no recipe, and every Catalan has an opinion on the bread.
€2–5
Best around: Barri Gòtic and La Barceloneta