This post, including its photos, is from FoodBarcelona and is property of Steve Tallantyre. If you're seeing this somewhere else, it's stolen content. High-concept cooking in the Hotel SOFIA Barcelona that’s designed to be sniffed at. Review: SOFIA Be So restaurant | Hotel SOFIA Barcelona The erstwhile Hotel Princesa Sofía, like its real-life namesake, has seen its circumstances change over the decades. Once an InterContinental Princesa, then merely a Gran Princesa, it has recently dropped its accent and even its royal rank to become merely SOFIA. A princess no more, with upper-case s ..read more

This post, including its photos, is from FoodBarcelona and is property of Steve Tallantyre. If you're seeing this somewhere else, it's stolen content. L’Atelier Barcelona pastry shop and patisserie school is delight for lovers of all things sweet. L’Atelier, Eixample, Barcelona Top-class patisserie is all about precision and attention to detail. No surprise, then that L’Atelier Barcelona pastry shop and school is full of cleverly and carefully crafted surprises. The shop, really a small café, is a treasure trove of design details: a gleaming espresso machine, custom ice buckets for ..read more

This post, including its photos, is from FoodBarcelona and is property of Steve Tallantyre. If you're seeing this somewhere else, it's stolen content. Smartly dressed and eager to please, the new Mr Porter restaurant carries its own bags into the Sir Victor Hotel, Barcelona. Review: Mr Porter restaurant, Sir Victor Hotel, Eixample, Barcelona Mr Porter has big boots to fill. The ground-floor dining room here was until recently home to Roca Moo, the excellent Barcelona satellite of the stellar Roca brothers‘ culinary empire. But that was then, when this upmarket 5* was the Hotel Omm, and ..read more