Homemade Lemon Cake

This was a fancy restaurant in a bustling seaside town in Northern Spain, the most atmosperically fancy place we ate on this trip. There w...

We drove back to Madrid the long way, skirting the Pyrenees (beautiful) and stopped at El Doncel in Sigüenza for lunch. It is a peaceful to...

This was absolutely the best deal of the trip, and an excellent meal. The tasting menu was an excellent deal and the wine pairing was eve...

The Sagrada Familia is apparently the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. When I was last here twenty five years ago it was a...

This is a very good, Michelin-starred restaurtant but amazingly, it was my least favorite meal that I had on a recent trip to Barcelona. ...

Our first fancy dining experience on our 2022 trip to Barcelona! This is a gorgeous dining room, mostly contemporary with lots of texture ...

During the summer of 1957, Picassoworked on a large series of fifty-eight canvases in near isolation, allowing few visitors to see his work...

The restaurant is named after an aromatic Mediterranean plant, is one of the least expensive Michelin starred restaurants I have eaten at--...

This museum is largely populated with early works by Picasso, and is rich in the history of his development as an artist. It is a must see...

We mostly did a straight ahead high end one meal a day approach to our recent trip to Barcelona--it is a great city to do that in, and in t...

The Fundació Antoni Tàpies is a cultural center and museum, located in Carrer d'Aragó, in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is dedicated mainly ...

One of the very best meals that I have had in an adulthood that could be characterized by having above average food on a regular basis, was...

Velázquez displayed a mastery of light and shadow, a flair for rendering the minute details of surface and texture (something that some B...

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born in 1599 in Seville, Spain, to a family of minor nobility. He demonstrated an aptitude for...

We stayed in a great apartment near the Plaza Mayor, and there were a number of restaurants there that were featured on an Anthony Boudain...

The Prado has an exceptional collection of Velazquez' work.   Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) was the leading artist in the court of King ...

 This was the restaurant that we would most definitely go back to that we ate at our last trip.The food here is innovative and delicious, ...

Back to the Prado.  Spanish art is the visual art of Spain and that of Spanish artists worldwide. Understand the influence and importance...

This is the first of at least several posts that I hope to do on paintings I saw in the Prado but was unable to photograph.  In their defe...

El Club Allard, a 2 Michelin star private hideaway in the centre of Madrid, stands within “Casa Gallardo”, a splendid building with a M...