We are taking the RS Best of Spain tour in the fall and will have three days in Barcelona before the tour begins. Does anyone have recommendations for a walking food/tapas tour? Thank you!
Devour Tours offers several tapas and history tours in Barcelona.
For some "do-it-yourself" touring, you can also look on Youtube, James Blick, of Spain Revealed (and Devour) has a couple videos on food and tapas in Barcelona, plus other people have bunches. Just try to figure out the dates they were filmed, anything more than a few years old may now be inaccurate.
There are quite a few food tour companies these days.
I've used Devour, Secret, and Eating Europe. I can't say there's a huge difference and would probably use whichever is available at the best day/time.
We took the food tour with Devour Tours. Lots of food and history.
https://devourtours.com/tours/barcelona-tapas-taverns-history-tour/
I've used Cozymeal and Eating Europe and both are great:
https://www.cozymeal.com/es/barcelona/food-tours
https://www.eatingeurope.com/barcelona
I enjoy Patrick Guide Barcelona on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_m16vh__uk <-one example of eating in Barcelona), and also feel like we enjoyed the pintxos in Barcelona more than the tapas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwJIc0eTumw <- video from the Devour folks recommended above in Seville but showing a little difference between pintxos and tapas).
As a side note, if you get to Seville, the Casa Morales (from the Devour video) was one stop on our tapas tour there.
In Barcelona, we went to a variety of tapas restaurants (like Tapas 24) but we really enjoyed creating our own pintxos tours - starting with the bars in our hotel's area (near Placa del Pi) and popping our heads in to see the pintxos on display. We'd get a drink (wine or beer), grab a few plates, enjoy different options, save our toothpicks, settle up, and move on to another bar. Repeat a few times, remember the favorites, and expand your range. A real fun adventure.
I’ve taken 2 different tours with Devour tours on 2 separate trips and really enjoyed both. They were educational and you leave quite full!