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Food/Tapas tour in Barcelona

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!