Interactive Spanish Cooking Experience in Barcelona
Overview
- 3-hour paella and tapas cooking class in Barcelona
- Visit St. Josep La Boqueria market with a local chef
- Cook and eat a hearty seafood paella
- Make your own Spanish tapas
- Enjoy sangria throughout the night
- Vegetarian meal option available
From $37.07 USD
Lowest Price GuaranteeFrom the market, continue to a cooking school in El Born district, where you’ll find an open kitchen, bar, and restaurant-style seating. Pour your first glass of sangria for the evening, then start preparing a range of tapas, or pintxos, classic Spanish small plates that are perfect paired with wine.
With a chef cooking alongside you, start preparing the traditional paella, then as the rice dish simmers on a low flame, you can learn to mix your own sangria at a short drinks-making workshop. When the paella is done, sit down to the meal you’ve prepared, savoring the rich flavor of the rice and seafood (a non-seafood meal option will be served by the chef for those who don’t eat seafood).
And if you’re not ready to finish the night, you’ll be invited to a nearby bar, where you’ll be treated to a free chupito, or shot, and enjoy drink specials throughout the evening.
Reviews
Viator Traveler's Reviews
We had an amazing evening with great guidance and lovely food. We were lucky that our group was quite small. I can imagine that if the group was much larger that the experience would be less. Fernando was great in making a nice joke but also explaining us lots during the workshop. It is definitly worth doing this workshop!!
The concept is good, however, there are some kinks that should be addressed. There should be a limit to the number of people they book for the tour. The night of our tour there were 30 people, way too many for a hands on class. Our tour was on Sunday, and we were informed that the market was closed, so there would be no visit, one of the reasons we booked this tour was the inclusion of a market visit before the cooking experience. It was a very loud crowd (perhaps too much sangria?) and very hard to experience the true culture of Spanish food. We were very disappointed in this tour, it is not what we have come to expect when booking with Viator.
We met at a local bar and the Chef was already there along with his assistant. The group was about 30 people and everyone was so pleasant. We walked a few blocks to the market to purchase the ingredients for the meal. The market was AMAZING! You could buy everything from meats, to seafood to fruits and vegetables. The chef was very detail and explained the items we would be using.We then walked to the cooking venue, which took about 5 to 7 minutes to arrive. The dining area was dimly lit and that gave off a cozy and charming feel . The cooking area had a huge table and lots of utensils and pots. This experience was AWESOME and FUN. We make seafood paella and sangria. All the people in our group were so much fun. We had a blast. The meal was DELICIOUS and so was the sangria. I definitely recommend this cooking tour when in Barcelona. You won't be disappointed. I wish I was able to post a picture of the experience. That way interested parties can have a glimpse of what to expect. Just do it though. It's a great way to experience traditional paella and sangria, without breaking the budget..
This was promoted as an interactive cooking class. However we found it to be more underactive. We were surprised ( meaning everyone) to find there were 22 of us in the class. We all anticipated about a dozen. All 22 if us made our way through the throngs on Las Rambles following our chef and her assistant to a great market to buy the seafood. Several of us got separated from the leader, but all were eventually collected. Back we go to the kitchen/dining room to prepare our dinner. We were seated at 3 tables and waited while the chef and her assistant prepared the tapas and sangria. while we consumed that, the chef and assistant prepared the seafood. Then all 22 of us were callled to the kitchen to don aprons ( there were only 8) and to finish preparing the seafood. Since there were only about 6 spoons we simply passed them around. That was the extent of our interactivity. The paella was average and overall experience was disappointing.
The experience was great. I really enjoyed it. the instructor was very good at explaining what was going on the only suggestion I have is be sure you are prepared for a good rapid walk through town I have arthritis and did not have the best walking shoes on for the experience that part was a little hard for me otherwise I enjoyed the whole process