Love of the Culture, Food Culture
I discovered the Chowhound board while preparing for our trip to Spain. I spent hours reading and taking notes. We are just finishing up a three week trip around Spain. Our route included: Barcelona, Valencia, Granada, Sevilla, the white villages of Andulusia, Cordoba, Toleda, and finishing up in Barcelona. Today enroute to Barcelona from Toledo we stopped in the city of Lleida, about half way between Barcelona and Zaragoza on A2. At the beginning of our trip when we were in Barcelona we had a difficult time finding Hyssop one of the restaurants recommended on this board and the city is so full of great options that we gave up trying to find any of those recommended and instead ventured out blind. But we had good luck at the Troubador in the old city center, not far off the Ramblas. The grilled artichokes with Romescu sauce were fabulous. The Valenzian fish we had reminded me a bit of Tinken Chik, the Maya way to prepare fish, but without Achiote. (Please excuse my spelling of som...