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Interactive Spanish Cooking Experience in Barcelona
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Interactive Spanish Cooking Experience in Barcelona

By Paella Cooking Experience
Rather than ordering tapas and paella at Barcelona’s restaurants, cook them for yourself with a local chef. Learn about local produce at La Boqueria market before visiting a teaching kitchen to prep tapas, mix sangria, and cook a paella. Sit down to eat them with your fellow cooks and opt to enjoy a “chupito” shot at a bar to cap your experience. A choice of time slots provides handy flexibility.

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Ages 5-99, max of 28 per group
Duration: 3h
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Highlights
  • Learn to make tapas, paella, and sangria at a Barcelona cooking experience
  • Don’t just order three classic dishes: discover how to make them
  • Visit La Boqueria market, enjoy a cooking class, and savor what you’ve made
  • Choice of time slots, with “chupito” shot at a nearby bar to finish

  • Your chef’s recipes and local Spanish cooking and dining tips
  • Local chef
  • Tapas, paella, and drinks
  • Interactive seafood paella making workshop
What's not included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Market visit on Sunday's and national holidays (market it closed)


Departure details
  • Travellers Nest Bar, C/ de la Boqueria, 27, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
Return details
  • Returns to original departure point

  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Near public transportation
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 16637P1

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • 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
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 28 travelers

  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

What you can expect during your visit
  • Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
  • Face masks required for travelers in public areas
  • Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
  • Face masks required for guides in public areas
  • Safety precautions are provided by the property and are not checked by Tripadvisor for accuracy.

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If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 16637P1

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chris
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain1 contribution
This was absolutely the best experience I’ve ever encountered chef Kira and Mia were beyond excellent. Their knowledge their patients and their expertise was just an overall great experience from the Sangria to the Paella and the conversations for the memories. I don’t ever forget Lori and I had the time of our life considering it was my 60th birthday on that day was a great memory, I recommend this to anybody. I mean anybody to experience five star all the way across the board excellent excellent class.
Written June 7, 2023
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MegO'Mahoney
Las Vegas, NV1 contribution
Jun 2023
This is meant to be constructive. The Chef was a young person with no interactive experience. The group was large (22). The Chef and assistant spent most of the cooking time engaging each othe with their backs to their guests. Leaving the group to fend for themselves. The timing was off and by the time the small veg. paella was finished, the large seafood paella was burned. No one asked for more although there was much more in the pan.

People just went and sat down with their companions and waited. There was very little dialogue between the Chef after the initial prep.

Outside, many of us agreed it was a very disappointing experience and went to look for something to eat.

I recommend that some exposure to guest interaction and timing would ensure better reviews.
Written June 5, 2023
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ldelpy
2 contributions
May 2023 • Family
We had a fun time with the instructor Kiko and the other participants. Great seafood paella and sangria.
Written June 1, 2023
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Jillian H
1 contribution
May 2023 • Friends
The experience was bigger and more thorough than I expected. Highly recommend! We started by sourcing our own ingredients from a local market, and then prepped everything hands on. It was a small group of 11 - mostly families - and we all ate together like friends. Plus, the sangria was flowing freely! So many surprises cooking this dish… I did NOT expect how this was made.
Written May 28, 2023
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Rosemary H
2 contributions
May 2023 • Friends
Had a wonderful time. Visited the market, wandered through the old town alleyways to the school. Kira was funny and friendly. We worked a bit at cooking, but also had time for sangria tasting and visiting with the others in our cooking class. Made delicious paella!
Written May 25, 2023
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Cindra S
Gold River, CA12 contributions
What a fun, informative experience! Philip, our chef and instructor, taught us secrets of making sangria and paella with great humor and knowledge. Our fellow students were fun to get to know, and the resulting paella was absolutely delicious. We’ll worth the time and money.
Written May 24, 2023
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Dream608939
1 contribution
May 2023 • Couples
Great interactive experience. Kiara our chef was knowledgable engaging and made the dinner very enjoyable. Can’t wait to duplicate the recipes back home.
Written May 22, 2023
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Teresa
2 contributions
May 2023 • Couples
Gerard was such a knowledgeable chef. The whole experience made me appreciate cooking more and a lot of interesting facts of barcelona. The trip to the boqueria was super fun!
Written May 19, 2023
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NorthStar701983
1 contribution
Kako’s paella was *chef’s kiss* 👌🏻

Would recommend 10/10 to anyone in Barcelona traveling through looking to learn a bit more about local Catalan paella
Written May 18, 2023
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Irene W
Oshawa, Canada2 contributions
Our host, Chef Kako, was excellent. He took us to the Boqueria Market to his fishmonger and explained what he was looking for and why he trusted her judgment. He let us have some time to buy our own spices to take home. Then took us to his test kitchen where he prepared sangria for us, let us prepare the paella if we wanted to and explained the science behind the cooking. Fantastic excursion that I would highly recommend.
Written May 12, 2023
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