Restaurant Review | Barcelona

Brico Depot HQ (I kid you not!)

Hola!

I promised a blog from Barcelona this week, and I don’t like to disappoint!

First, for clarity, I am on a work trip (to our sister company Brico Depot Iberia) not a holiday and therefore am in a dull bond-villain lair type corporate hotel at the end of the airport runway, with a lovely view of a motorway, a petrol station and a number of industrial estates. On the plus side, our work here has been both useful and fun, and there are deckchairs and a tiny pool, which I am enjoying writing next to this evening before my return flight in the morning.

The hotel food is a culinary disaster area in which my “crispy chicken salad” turned out to be limp lettuce smothered in ultra-processed mayo and topped with halved chicken nuggets. #Classy. And my colleague’s Prawn Brioche revealed itself to be an entire, charred loaf filled with precisely one and a half prawns. #Stingy.

Anyway, to the rescue came today’s office lunch! Look at that for a plate of tiny, delicious morsels. I don’t understand a word of Spanish, so apart from the things I could obviously recognise, I’ve not a clue what it all was, but it was bloody lovely!

This, though, was the star of the show. Quite the most glorious Gazpacho. Fortunately it had Serrano ham in it, so was off limits to many of my colleagues, thus very pleasingly meant more for me. I could have eaten the entire tray, but limited myself to just three or four (honest).

I’d forgotten how much I love gazpacho. From memory it’s just fresh tomatoes, celery, red pepper, onion and cucumber blitzed with garlic, olive oil, sherry, sherry vinegar and a bit of stock. Serve chilled with some serrano ham and/or croutons. I shall be making this on Saturday and eating it on Sunday evening whilst watching Spain trash Argentina in the World Cup final. Vamos Espana 🙌⭐

And whilst, granted, there’s not the most spectacular of views, and it was a bit humid and overcast, what’s not to like about a rooftop terrace, to boot. ❤️ I shall be petitioning for one of these at our office when I get back. Our office is on an industrial estate in Yeovil so I feel the concept will translate very well indeed.

So hit me up with your favourite Gazpacho recipes and/or tapas treats in the comments. Adios until next time and Vamos Espana!❤️