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Bombas are Barceloneta's contribution to the Catalan tapa: a potato croquette filled with seasoned ground meat, deep-fried and finished with hot aioli and red pepper sauce; in Spain we have verified places to eat it in Barcelona. Start with where to eat Bombas (potato fritters) in Barcelona.
Bombas are Barceloneta's contribution to the Catalan tapa: a potato croquette filled with seasoned ground meat, deep-fried and finished with hot aioli and red pepper sauce.
La Cova Fumada on Carrer del Baluard invented the bomba in 1944. The name comes from the round grenade-like shape; the original was meant as a working-class quick lunch for the Barceloneta dock workers. The recipe has stayed the same: cooked potato mashed and shaped into a ball around seasoned ground beef and pork, breadcrumbed, deep-fried, served with two sauces, the white garlic-and-oil aioli and the red pepper-and-paprika 'salsa picante'. Now every Catalan tapas counter in Barcelona has a version; La Cova Fumada still owns the canonical reading. Around the corner, La Bombeta and El Vaso de Oro both run their own variants.
Where to eat in Barcelona:
Where to eat Bombas (potato fritters) in Barcelona: the editor picks
Guided tour · 3 hours
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