What's Hot in Barcelona and environs: our seasonal recommendations for cooks, culture mavens, fashionistas, and gastronauts.

On the Menu
Favorite restaurants and recipes from Spain. The country cooking is simply delicious at Mas Garganta, a beautiful turisme rural farmhouse in the Pyrenees foothills. Here’s owner Inés Puigdevall’s recipe for an aromatic, divine rosemary soup… (more)

Cultural and Culinary Happenings
Special exhibitions, off-the-path museums, and festivals that celebrate local food. In Barcelona, the Fundació Miró opens a show of 20th century paintings and sculpture featuring the body, with works by all the great avant-gardistas. Check out the Ateneu literary society—an oasis in the Barri Gótic, with music and other programs open to the public. Beans, beans at the “La Fira del Fesol” in Santa Pau in January—the surrounding Garrotxa countryside is worth the trip! (more)

De Moda
Shopping tips, fun finds, and fashions seen on the streets in Barcelona. It can be tough to go home to a drab office after a vacation steeped in Barcelona’s design-obsessed vibe. A stop at Konema, a wonderland of desktop doodads offers just the fix, and they stock those very cool, locally made Slang bags… (more)