We hiked for 2 hours up a mountain to reach this invisible-to-the-regular-tourist restaurant, called Can Marti. The trip was well worth it. They served us a Calçotada feast consisting of calçots (mild, less bulbous onions) and wine out of a parrón, plus the traditional pan con tomate, lamb ribs, Spanish sausages, salad, olives, red peppers, and delicious cream puffs for dessert.
There is no way to describe the traditional way of eating calcots and drinking from a parron without pictures. Let’s just say you need a bib for the whole experience…
The calçots are cooked here on fireplace and get all carcoal-y black, in a good way.
How to eat calçots:
Find the middle part of the onion. Pull on the most bottom carcoal-y part.
It should look like this!
Dip in romesco sauce and eat! Delicious!
And afterwards drink some wine out of a parrón, which looks like this up close:
Michelle being an expert parrón drinker. Now you see why bibs are necessary...
Especially in situations like this:
more food, lamb ribs and spanish sausage.
and dessert, creme puffs covered in warm chocolate sauce!
and then we took the Tram home because we were too fat and full to walk back...
Best lunch ever!
hahaha i love this! the pictures definitely made the post! it looked like a great time. =)
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