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Barcelona Interactive Spanish Cooking Experience
4.5
1,683 Ratings
Barcelona
Engage in a 2.5- to 3-hour cooking session led by a local chef. A visit to the La Boqueria market will be made prior to the preparation of tapas, paella, and sangria. After the preparation, you will have the opportunity to relish the freshly cooked food.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Travellers Nest Bar - In this interactive experience, you will learn to make Spanish tapas, traditional paella, and sangria. Share a hearty dinner of classic local cuisine that you’ve had a hand in making.
All great Spanish food starts with super fresh ingredients, so you will begin this cooking class with a guided trip through La Boqueria market.
Afterwards, the chef will lead this interactive Spanish cooking class on how to create tapas, paella and sangria.
At the end of the experience, you can even take the recipes back with you in order to impress your friends back home.
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What's Included
- Tapas, paella and sangria
- Your chef’s recipes and local Spanish cooking and dining tips
- Interactive seafood paella making workshop
- Local chef
- Tour of Boqueria market (subject to opening times)
What's Not Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Market visit on Sunday’s and national holidays (market it closed)
- Gratuities
Meal Options
- Paella - A delicious traditional Seafood paella, prepared with fresh ingredients from the local market.
- Tapas - Freshly prepared Spanish ‘Pinchos’ made with traditional hams and cheeses.
Additional Information
- Minimum drinking age is 18 years
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
Location
Travellers Nest Bar
Carrer de la Boqueria
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.5
(1683 Ratings)
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84daantjes
Aug 20, 2024
Great Cookingclass with sangria - It was a super fun and interactive evening! Maia and Sophi were create teachers and provided a lovely evening for everyone!
It’s a must do when you are up for a night full of tasty food en drinks.
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Madelinea826
Aug 19, 2024
Amazing experience - We got to go to the market and shop for our own ingredients which made the paella super fresh. The sangria was delicious and so were the tapas. The instructor allowed us to do a majority of the cooking so we really got to experience and be interactive with it. The Paella was amazing and at the end he gave us recommendations for food, drinks and were to buy the best spices to take home with us.
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Hanna_s
Aug 17, 2024
Fun paella making - The atmosphere and hosts were excellent. If you want to learn how to make an authentic paella, this is a tour for you
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Analin_p
Aug 16, 2024
I will recommend it to our friends in Australia - We were a family of 4, with 2 adult kids we all enjoyed it & Manny our chef was great & answer all our questions
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Grace_m
Aug 15, 2024
Good time - Going to the market and selecting the fish! Actually learning how to shell the prawns and properly prepare the seafood was awesome! Naomi and Stephen were great!
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132alianih
Aug 15, 2024
Very great experience - Very great experience with Sophie, we enjoyed every part of the cooking class! Visiting the market and making the paella together was our groups highlights from the experience.
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Meg_k
Aug 11, 2024
10/10 would recommend - We absolutely loved our cooking class with Naomi and Maya, they were fantastic hosts who were more than happy to share their trade secrets to the perfect sangria and paella. We would definitely recommend to friends and family.
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Lavonndrea_b
Aug 18, 2024
Cooking in Barcelona - This was a good tour. We met some great people and the food was good. Definitely a good experience.
The end was a bit rushed since there was another class after ours and we had to find our way back to the meeting point without our guide. The guest made it really fun!
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Chris_m
Aug 12, 2024
Paella and sangria in Barcelona - An enthusiastic chef keen to keep us all entertained. I would have liked to not only enjoy the sangria, but also cook a little as well, rather than just watch and listen to him explain how to make the paella. But we each got to chop or stir some of the ingredients. Just would have liked a more hands on class.
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Caleb_k
Aug 17, 2024
Don't Do it! - Brace yourself for a whirlwind of disappointment with the so-called "Interactive Spanish Cooking Experience" in Barcelona—a misnomer that should be more accurately branded as a lackluster paella demonstration. I fell for the glowing 5-star reviews, and I urge you not to repeat my mistake.
Our evening began at 6:45 PM with a walk to the iconic La Boqueria market, where, to our dismay, most stalls were shuttered for the night. After a brief exchange of hometowns among the group, we were unceremoniously given 10 minutes to wander aimlessly through the ghost town of a market—no tour, no insight, nothing. The group’s return was delayed by one straggler, adding another 10 minutes to our aimless wait. Then, we huddled around a single seafood stall, loitering there for over 20 minutes as our host painstakingly selected seafood for the dish.
The so-called "interactive" experience quickly descended into a farce as we trudged for another 20 minutes to a residential kitchen, ill-prepared to accommodate any meaningful culinary engagement. Our participation was reduced to menial tasks: slicing half an onion, dicing half a pepper, removing mussel beards, and peeling shrimp. Those who opted for the vegetarian paella fared slightly better—they were left to cook their meal in its entirety while the rest of us watched the chef monopolize the process. The only “excitement” came when a cockroach made its bold appearance, darting across the wall as the chef attempted, in a truly unsanitary spectacle, to swat it with his shoe. In the end, one of the guests became the unintended hero by finally eliminating the unwelcome critter.
Any expectations of tapas preparation, as falsely advertised with the mention of "pintxos," were dashed upon arrival at the kitchen. Instead, we were greeted by a meager plate of cold cuts, crackers, and olives. Being last in line, I was left with two lonely slices of salami. There was no crafting of pintxos, just a prelude of disappointment.
As we watched the chef commandeer the paella preparation, the atmosphere grew stale, much like the sangria, which ran dry mid-way through the night. Only then was one guest enlisted to assist in making a fresh batch. When the paella was finally served, it was a bland, underwhelming affair, with the cuttlefish being the only ingredient to offer any semblance of flavor.
The evening ended on a painfully awkward note as we made our exit, one by one, with no farewell, no mention of a nearby bar, and no "chupito" in sight—another broken promise.
This experience was an overpriced, uninspired disaster, and I can’t fathom how it has garnered so many glowing reviews. Having attended cooking classes across the globe, I can confidently say this was the most disappointing by far. Save yourself the regret and heed my advice: DON’T book this experience.
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