Bombas Barceloneta appears as a signature dish in 1 Spain cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Bombas (potato fritters) · 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:
- La Cova Fumada
- Quimet i Quimet
- Bormuth
- Bar del Pla