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  • Anya von Bremzen, an award-winning food writer, tells CB where she heads first for food when she arrives in Barcelona.
  • Editor's note: Anya von Bremzen is the winner of three James Beard awards, a contributing writer at AFAR magazine and the author of six.
  • Europe - Need your help please with itinerary and restaurant selection for Barcelona - My husband, our grown son, and I will spend 9 days in.

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    Mvic Sep 24, pm

    Based on your last post I would also recommend Madrid. Far fewer bars of the sort you want in Barcelona where the club scene predominates. Infact if you want something really interesting in terms of gastronomy and local culture you may even consider the Austurias region.

    Check out this article (sorry lost the link):

    Spanish Highs: What's Cooking in Spain

    In Asturias, a rural corner of northern Spain, a handful of chefs are staging a culinary revolution

    By Anya Von Bremzen

    I was having lunch in a windswept fishing village in the middle of nowhere. Laundry snapped furiously in the breeze while seagulls circled over gaggles of fishermen tending their nets by tatty white houses. Viavélez—population 80—is so insignificant that even the most detailed maps fail to acknowledge it. And two years ago, the chilly Cantabrian Sea nearly washed away Taberna Viavélez Puerto, the restaurant where I was eating a meal that, in L.A. or London, would have critics leaping with excitement. I took a slow slurp of tea-and-chocolate soup, then broke the gossamer band of bitter chocolate encircling a tart tomato gelée and Szechwan pepper ice cream. It was the sharpest dessert I'd tasted all year. And this wasn't even the best restaurant I'd discovered on my trip to