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Best restaurants in Valencia 2026: 13 tables worth booking
Thirteen Valencia tables for 2026, from Ricard Camarena's €250 menu at Bombas Gens to paella cooked over orange wood since 1922, checked against the Michelin Guide Spain 2026.
Italy's olive oil stocks surge as new harvest floods in
Italian reserves are up 47% on last year just as Spain and Greece start pressing a bigger 2026 crop, pushing early prices down across the Mediterranean.
Best restaurants in Barcelona 2026: 15 tables worth booking
Fifteen Barcelona tables for 2026, from Disfrutar's €325 tasting menu to a €10–20 lunch at the tavern that claims the bomba, checked against the Michelin Guide Spain 2026.
Arroz a banda recipe: Alicante's fish-stock rice with alioli
The fishermen's rice of Alicante, cooked in rockfish stock with cuttlefish and ñora, as 52 restaurants in the city put it at the centre of their autumn menus.
Marqués de Cáceres collects Spain's best white wine award
Los Altares 2016, the Cenicero winery's first white Gran Reserva, came through a shortlist drawn from Bacchus 2026 and received its prize at Madrid's Teatro Real.
Rioja closes its earliest grape harvest on record
Growers brought in 333.77 million kilograms of grapes, 48% more than last year, in a season compressed by persistent heat.
Juno Kitchen Barcelona puts women producers on the menu
The women's members' club Juno House has opened an executive restaurant in its Aribau headquarters, with a first season built around eleven women from the food trade.
Quique Dacosta Mahou dinner pairs four beers for €39
Five courses, four Mahou beers and one confirmed date. The chef's two Michelin-starred restaurants are on the programme, but their prices and dates are still to come.
What to eat in Barcelona: 10 dishes and where to find them
From the bomba fried in Barceloneta since the 1940s to xuixos that sell 800 a day in Poblenou, ten dishes that define Barcelona, with addresses, opening hours and prices in euros checked in October 2026.
Rafa Nadal wine: El Tenista, an organic Monastrell from Jumilla
The tennis player and Viñas Familia Gil, the family behind Bodegas Juan Gil, release a limited edition from 50-year-old ungrafted vines. Vintage and bottle count are not public.
Croquetas de jamón recipe: the béchamel that does not burst
Milk infused with ham bone, a roux cooked for 4 minutes, a béchamel for 20 and a night in the fridge. About 35 Spanish ham croquettes, fried at 180 °C, with the reason behind each step.
Barcelona loading bays for bars and hotels start six-month trial
Three reserved bays, eight distributors and seven vehicles per site: the city is testing whether a truck that parks once and delivers on foot cuts traffic. The council has not published the hours.
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