I went to one of the world's best market in Barcelona, Mercado de La Boqueria. This popular food market sells some of the freshest fruit, vegetables, and seafood. One of the food vendors you must try is Quim, and this place serves great Gazpacho and green peppers. After the market, I went to go tour one of the most breathtaking cathedrals and then ate some hot chocolate with churros. #boqueria#barcelonafoodmarket#boqueriamarket
That's pretty majestic, right?
I am of course in Barcelona, Spain, one of the most beautiful cities
I've ever been to in Europe and right now i'm on my way to one of the best
Food markets in the world, La Baqueria. This place is over 150 years old over 300 vendors show up every single day
And many people consider it as not just one of the best but the best market in the world
And for me just to walk together is a treat in itself
One of numerous beautiful historical sites around the city
Can you taste the anticipation? Well, that's not very friendly
I mean I can imagine if you live like right there and the market is right down here. I mean, it's not nice, but I get it
And this place is a food haven precious fruits groceries seafood
Whatever your culinary heart desires. It's got it here. I'm understandably a little overwhelmed right now
I mean, I just want everything
Is that too much to ask that's being too greedy as a food lover. I just want to eat everything here
Let's just go to the corner and start from there
Let's start with this this is like a pita stuffed with cheese with an olive on top and luckily they have a little miniature version
Does this look like a cheesy snowman to anybody else with the hair on top and a big nose?
Also as such good olives at the last market in madrid I thought I'd get
A little cup of it here. And these are the spicy olives. They look nice and fresh and spicy
I think spain is the first place i've been to the world. I actually started liking the olives
Oh, that's a spicy olive I think this is the smallest pita I ever had in my life
Oh man, the pita itself is a little stale cold not so good but the cheese
Oh, yeah, that's melting into my heart right now
So creamy a little tart little bits of pickles in here as well
It's like eating a cream cheese bagel except for it's a mini pita pocket. This is the seafood section
And people just consume the seafood right here fresh
oysters sea urchins
Whatever you want
There are a lot of places selling little servings of tapas fried calamari
sardines
octopus
One thing I love since coming to barcelona
It's the octopus
And they cover it in this delicious garlicky sauce
Usually people don't like octopus because it's a little tough octopus in spain are incredibly gentle and tender
It doesn't even taste like octopus it's so incredibly delicate a little olive oil a little garlic a little basil
It just falls apart
In your mouth. I don't think i've ever said that about octopus before it really does
Once you get a few snacks in here you ready to upgrade your food intake come here
This place is an institution the menu changes all the time always packed celebrities come here
This place is known as the defender of the egg
So they have a lot of egg dishes here and i'm gonna get their house specialty
Two fried eggs with baby squid because their baby squid supposed to be amazing got some gazpacho got some green peppers
I'm, also going to go for the paella
So i'm literally just sitting here in a little
bar situation
And they're cooking
Right in front of me and seeing everything and hearing all the sounds smelling the aroma
It borderline drives you crazy. Like I want I want to eat something now got some gazpacho
One of this since I came to spain I see this everywhere I haven't had a chance to have it
These fried green peppers with salt on it. Oh my gosh smells so incredible
Oh my god, I mean it seems like whatever i'm fawning over a plate of fried chilies, but you gotta try this
They just got the most mouth-watering
enticing
Aroma, this is a simple highest quality green peppers
With just some salt on it, but it's roasted over mount mordor because it's that simply good
And when you bite into it your entire sense is overwhelmed by the smoky flavor
There's incredible peppers. Oh just got my squid and eggs baby squid
And fried eggs. Oh
And he told me just to mix the eggs and the squid all together and their baby squid is uniquely sourced
Oh, man, look at that. Creamy egg yolks
It's yummy and really just
Interesting because I never had something like this before. That's why i'm saying interesting
Usually when people say interesting is it's bad. I'm not saying that at all. But this is a texture and a flavor
I really
Never had before
The baby squid is tender, but it has a bit of a chewy texture
Which is great because the backdrop is just a silky egg and an incredible creamy center the best dish
Take a bite
Chase it with a pepper
Now you're adding some smoke to that deliciously lit dish oh
Take your bread. Oh, just dunk it in there
Dunkaroo that sucker
Oh
So awesome forgot about the gazpacho
Oh my I haven't had so many gazpacho in my life that
I i'm not an avid gazpacho eater
I just really feel like it today, but
Wow, that might be the best thing I had so far today
I mean, it's crazy because it's up against like creamy eggs and a baby squid and a bunch of roasted green peppers
But it's crunchy. There's squid inside. So it's got a chewy texture as well
So refreshingly tomatoey without it being overly acidic just the most perfectly
Balanced gazpacho that thing is so balanced like a tight walk across the grand canyon on a single thread
All right, I gotta eat up because I got another dish coming up. It's gonna be amazing
This thing is like a landscape painting. Oh, man
Just mounds of shrimp clams muscles looks like sour cream on a bit of rice. That rice is glistening
Oh, tell me you're not getting hungry right now. I mean just
marvelous
She's bright like a diamond as Rihanna would say look at it glisten
I'll tell you what. I prefer these grains of rice to diamonds right now. Can't eat a diamond
I don't think anything can be made not tender here
God that was fresh right texture soft yet chewy. It's like this rice
Was cooked in the best parts of the sea and all that nice flavor soaked into every single grain
Let's play we gotta come here
If you're in this market come to this place to have lunch or do what I just did have like three lunches
Oh, that was a good feast. And now let's go check something else off my bucket list
There it is la sagrada familia ever since I saw my first cathedral in belgium
I've wanted to come here. You guys see the cranes on top?
This cathedral has been under construction for over a century started in 1882
Architect died when this thing was only a quarter of way complete. Apparently this thing won't be done until like
2026 almost 10 years from now
That was a lot of security coming in here
My ticket was scanned about four to five times had to take my belt off everything
Uh, but finally here
That is insane it is just so unreal seeing this
Being majestic doesn't even begin to describe this place so many colorful stained glass windows makes this almost look like a
Like a landscape painting look at the light coming in
All the colors never seen stained glass windows so many
variations of color
Just
Glorious like spots of color and light
coming in
all throughout
The structure probably the most vibrant stained glass windows i've ever seen it's like a color palette
Going to the top of one of the towers and instead of having to climb
As you would typically a cathedral or basilica. There's an elevator and we're going up to there
twisty stone stairs
Oh my gosh
Oh, that's already that's already pretty good looking right
This is really a pretty city
It just infuriates me when I go around the world and I see
this
like on all the ancient sites like
just
I mean seriously
Does nobody nobody ever respect culture anymore?
Look at this covered. So if you're standing beneath the this basilica
And you hit on the head with a euro or like a penny or something
Yeah, it's it's from here this is our staircase and it just keeps going down
Vertical
By the way paying extra for the tower ticket
not really worth it the tower is just
Not really worth the money. This might be the first cup of coffee i've ordered in years because I don't really drink coffee
But uh, this thing's a banana coffee
Bitter but banana eat
It's not bad last day. I'm gonna eat today. I gotta get some churros
Hot chocolate and churro. I don't even know how I can live without this combo later
This is like just addictive stuff. I don't like my chocolate too thick or too thin
Just smooth like this
This is like the perfect consistency for me
That's actually probably the smoothest hot chocolate i've had so far
That's amazing. This hot chocolate is pretty dark a little bitter. I like that
This is probably the least crispy churro i've had
But I think I like this texture the most as well because I like a little chewiness on the inside after the crunchy shell
This is the perfect ending to my day, all right after this let me go to bed
Good night