Monthly Archives: June 2012

Wine Enthusiast’s 100 Best Wine Restaurants of 2012

This list is out…and we’re on it! For the second year in a row, Barcelona has been selected as one of the 100 Best Wine Restaurants by Wine Enthusiast Magazine. We are thrilled to be included with such great company, … Continue reading

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Fairfield Grilling Class Recap

By Christopher Dehn On a rainy Tuesday evening, Barcelona Fairfield chef Helton DaSilva and Barcelona master butcher and meat purveyor Mark Berlin held a veritable master class in the butchery and cooking of seriously high-quality meat. Throughout the two-hour class, … Continue reading

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This Week at the Fish Market…

Every week, one lucky Barcelona chef gets to head to Hunts Point Fish Market in the Bronx at the crack of dawn to shop for our Connecticut restaurants. This week it was Fairfield’s Executive Chef Helton DaSilva’s turn to go … Continue reading

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The National Cocktail of Spain

By Gretchen Thomas, our Wine & Spirits Director During our annual company visits to Spain, we always notice that the Spanish people have a strong affinity for gin and tonics, or as it’s locally known, a gintonic. We visit five … Continue reading

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Introducing…Barcelona Truffle Products

In the sketchy world of food production, there are a lot of cheats. In the sketchy world of hunting in the middle of the night on other people’s property for elusive mysterious tubers that are often worth more than gold, … Continue reading

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