Barcelona: Paella Cooking Experience & Boqueria Market Tour
🏎 Why We Picked This
gygThree hours fits perfectly on Friday morning before FP1 (13:30 start) or Sunday morning before the Race (15:00). A hands-on paella class anchored at La Boqueria market is the most quintessentially Barcelona experience on this list — immersive, social, and a superb way for fans to fuel up and bond ahead of the on-track action. Over 3,600 five-star reviews confirm its reliability.
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Barcelona: Paella Cooking Experience & Boqueria Market Tour
From $84 per person
About this experience
Uncover the joy of Spanish cooking with an interactive experience. Follow a chef around the famous Boqueria market to buy ingredients, then learn how to make traditional paella, sangria, and tapas.
On this 3-hour activity you’ll join a professional chef on an introductory tour of the world famous Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria, Barcelona's oldest and best food market, dating back to the 13th century. While telling you about the foods on offer, especially the seafood, and the basics of Spanish and Catalan cuisine, the chef will buy some of the fresh ingredients needed to prepare an authentic paella de marisco, or seafood paella, Spain’s traditional rice dish. Walk with the chef through the winding streets of The Old Town (central location, right next to Las Ramblas) the most fashionable district of the city. Enter you your private dining room that’s adjacent to the big open kitchen where the chef will prepare the delicious paella de marisco, as you watch the process. Take the edge off your appetite with some traditional Spanish tapas. Learn how to make your own pan con tomate, the most typical Catalan tapa, and how to build traditional Basque pintxos or montaditos, the tapas with toothpicks. Then you can enjoy your creations accompanied by some lovely sangría. While you are eating your homemade pintxos, the chef will cook the paella de marisco. You’ll be into the adjacent open kitchen to stand around the large paellera, the traditional round, shallow pan made of polished steel that the paella de marisco will be prepared in. As the chef begins to prepare the paella you’ll hear about the history of the dish, the ingredients used, and the steps in the preparation. With the paella simmering in the kitchen you’ll be invited over to the bar where you’ll learn all there is to know about sangría, the world famous Iberian wine punch that dates back to medieval times. Try your hand at mixing your own sangría. Once the paella de marisco is finally ready to be enjoyed, you’ll head back to the tables, sit down, and enjoy the feast along with your own freshly mixed sangria.
Highlights
- ✓introductory tour of the world famous Mercat de la Boqueria
- ✓Learn how to make some quick local tapas
- ✓Create a sharing seafood paella in a cooking workshop
- ✓Make and drink unlimited sangria throughout
What's included
- ✓La Boqueria introduction tour (subject to La Boqueria market opening hours)
- ✓Walk through the old town of Barcelona
- ✓Tapas
- ✓Paella cooking display and interactive instruction
- ✓Sangría mixing class
- ✓Homemade paella de marisco
- ✓Recipes (accessible via QR code)
- ✓All food and drinks
Not included
- ✕Transportation
- ✕Tips (optional)
- ✕Market tours on Sundays and public holidays
Good to know
This activity is an interactive paella-making class, where people are given different jobs throughout the experience A vegetarian option is available, please advise if you require a vegetarian meal upon booking The market tour is not included on Sundays and public holidays as the market is closed
Getting there
Meet your guide inside the Travel Bar near Las Ramblas on the street leading away from the Miró mosaic and the Chinese dragon.
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“cudowna atrakcja, najlepsze co możecie sobie zafundować na wyjeździe. Podejrzewam ze w restauracji byście wydali więcej za tyle tapasów, wina, sangrii, paelli z ogromną ilością owoców morza. prowadzący ma ogromną wiedzę i ciekawie ją przedstawia, bawiłyśmy się z dziewczynami genialnie. jestem pewna ze jak ktokolwiek z moich znajomych powie ze leci do Barcelony to dosłownie zmuszę go aby wziął w tym udział.”
“We ate the traditional way of paella. The ingredients are fresh and it was fun to learn how to cook them. Thank you so much for the fun experience! My kids love the food even they are not big fun of seafood.”
“Loved it! Our chef was friendly, patient and very passionate. Unfortunately we did not visit the boqueria market.”
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Milo was great! He gave us tons of good information during the class.
We ate the traditional way of paella. The ingredients are fresh and it was fun to learn how to cook them. Thank you so much for the fun experience! My kids love the food even they are not big fun of seafood.
cudowna atrakcja, najlepsze co możecie sobie zafundować na wyjeździe. Podejrzewam ze w restauracji byście wydali więcej za tyle tapasów, wina, sangrii, paelli z ogromną ilością owoców morza. prowadzący ma ogromną wiedzę i ciekawie ją przedstawia, bawiłyśmy się z dziewczynami genialnie. jestem pewna ze jak ktokolwiek z moich znajomych powie ze leci do Barcelony to dosłownie zmuszę go aby wziął w tym udział.
Loved it! Our chef was friendly, patient and very passionate. Unfortunately we did not visit the boqueria market.