Valls (calçotada) ★ 4.6
Valls in Tarragona province is the Catalan calçot capital: the Festa del Calçot runs late January, and the Masies country-bistros serve calcotada lunches.
Girona (El Celler de Can Roca) is a food day trips in Barcelona.
Girona is a 40-minute AVE ride north of Barcelona: the Roca brothers' three-star El Celler de Can Roca runs the country fine-dining benchmark in a converted.
Editorially verified May 19, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Valls in Tarragona province is the Catalan calçot capital: the Festa del Calçot runs late January, and the Masies country-bistros serve calcotada lunches.
Sitges is a 40-minute train ride south of Barcelona on the Garraf coast: the xato salad with romesco-style sauce is the canonical winter Sitges lunch.
The Penedes wine region 50 minutes by train from Barcelona is the Catalan cava heartland: Codorniu, Freixenet and Recaredo all run cellar tours and tastings.
Priorat in Tarragona's interior is the second of Spain's two DOQ wine appellations: schist-soil garnacha and carinyena reds, with cellar tastings at Mas Doix.
Cadaques on the Costa Brava is the white-washed fishing village where Salvador Dali lived: the seaside restaurants serve Catalan suquet, sea-urchins.