All Those Food Market - September 2018

This time, All Those Food Market has being a kinf of start of La Mercè fest, at Barcelona.

The Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, that seems to be the home of the festival when it is not cold, hosted another edition of the market of food artisans.

As usual, at theatre hall, a bunch of artisans showed what they do: food, drink or food containing.

Outdoors, foodtrucks and other stands offered recently cooked food and drinks to make company.

This time, I ate the La Rika's Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich. An excellent fried chicken sandwich, not greasy at all, juicy and so tasty.

From Can Kenji, I ate a good Yakisoba, although noodles were a little bit over cooked in my opinion, and so good gyoza that were made right there.

Everything accompanied with Bandarra's vermouth and "tinto de vegano".

As dessert, I had to go to Delacrem's stand and eat a two flavours ice-cream: Gianduia and Peanuts with salted caramel. A wonder!

Arrels del Vi 2018

2018 is the year that "Arrels del Vi" has also presence in Barcelona.

This fest of D.O. Empordà is always celebrated at the Empordà, having Castelló d'Empúries as the place of the big event. But they decided to carry the wine wonders they produce to Barcelona, so many of us can taste wines that are not usual in Barcelona restaurant wine lists because it seems the quality of the restaurant is measured by the percentage of "Rioja" and "Ribera del Duero" in the list.

A quite significant number of wineries came to Palau de Mar de Barcelona to expose their productions.

The truth is anybody could make a vast tasting, with different varieties and wineries... But, personally, I chose to taste a delicious Empordà wonder I love: the Garnatxa de l'Empordà.

It is a sweet wine good as aperitif or at dessert time... That's good because it is a good way to have a correct wine for the last part of a meal. And D.O. Empordà has extraordinary sweet wines.

From these wonderful wines, I would love to remark three of them I liked so much.

First one, "Sol i Serena" by Cellers d'en Guilla, a wine 3 years in demijohns in a process of "sol i serena" (covered by sun and night). It is so good as aperitif. Later, some are in cask where they become a wine for dessert: the "Garnatxa". I did not taste this last one.

In second place, "Torre de Capmany Garnatxa" from celler Pere Guardiola, a classical example of what have to be a "Garnatxa de l'Empordà", with all its scents and flavours.

And "Sinols Garnatxa" by 'Empordàlia... Pure honey!!!! A sweet nectar not not overly sweet at all. It was so fresh and delicate. It was the one I loved most.

And, of course, all in company of one of the most well known products from the Empordà: "les anxoves de l'Escala".