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Our favourite Barcelona restaurant
Restaurant 7 Portes

The 7 Portes ("The Seven Doors"), opened in 1836, claims to be Barcelona’s oldest restaurant, and is a personal favourite, being particularly recommended if you must eat paella while you're here. Go early-ish or you'll find yourself queuing outside on the pavement.

We've included in this section as we're not quite sure why a restaurant really needs a website (ok, so everyone's got one…). I mean, what content are you going to put there? Most interesting on this site is probably the famous visitors section (Antonio Banderas, Bo Derek, Catherine Deneuve, Che Guevara…). An impressive list.

For other bars and restaurants in Barcelona, we recommend the TimeOut Barcelona guide. The Guia del Ocio also has a very complete listing.

•We liked: Some of the mouth-watering images on the "menu" page
•Not so hot: The recipe section is a good idea – but there’s only one there (for "escudella", a typical Catalan stew
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan; and French, German, Japanese and Italian (that's impressive, too!)

Cake, anyone?
Barcelona Confectionery Guild
This site tells you all about "Barcelona's Confectionery Guild, its members and the School of Confectionery" (though in fact that "all" doesn't amount to very much). The site's main interest – we thought – is that you can send someone a virtual cake (choice of six).

Cake (or rather chocolate) freaks shouldn't miss the Chocolate Musuem in Barcelona.

•We liked: The one in the middle (see picture) for my Mum's birthday...
•Not so hot: ... she doesn't have Internet. Duh!
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan

Don't say you haven't been warned
101 ways to get ripped off in Barcelona
They say that you only ever get your bag snatched, wallet stolen etc if you look like you are real easy pickings. This guy must really be some kind of freak, if we may say so, to have been had in all these different ways.

•We liked: Why now (evil laugh)... I could supplement my income with some of these!
•Not so hot: Having your wallet nicked (don't wear Union Jack shorts, unfold ginormous street maps in public, go round clutching huge bottles of mineral water or wear silly hats...)
•Languages: English

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