Salt Cod Fritters At eighteen, I started my first fine-dining apprenticeship at Can Gaig, a storied Michelin-starred Barcelona restaurant with a history dating back to the 1800s. While there, I noticed that many of the dishes on the menu could have been lifted right from the daily lunch specials at Bar Roca, the little bar-restaurant […]

…A BLANKET STATEMENT Picnic food—there really is no better way to eat outdoors. There’s a certain magic to taking simple ingredients best enjoyed in the sunshine and setting them down against a picture-perfect backdrop. And whether you’re sitting down to feast on vibrant tomatoes paired with summer plums, a refreshing cucumber salad, or a board […]

Roasted corn, scallions, Manchego cheese, Calabrian chili, mint Since corn, while not commonly eaten in Spain, is so plentiful and delicious in North America in the summer, we love serving it up with a Spanish twist. For this dish, we turned to some of our incredible line cooks and drew inspiration from their Mexican heritage. […]

Chorizo and Fried Quail Eggs on Toasts Legend has it that the king of Spain once ate this stack of chorizo and fried egg on toast and declared it “cojonudo” (that’s slang for “F%!@&ing Good”). Whether or not that story of this iconic montado from Castile y León is true, it’s undeniable that the dish […]