DISH OF THE WEEK: Revuelto de Trompetas de la Muerte y Calamar at BODEGA SEPÚLVEDA (in Barcelona, Spain)

Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City

I am just so enamored with Spain – the food, the people, the way of life. In fact, my wife and I often talk about packing up the family and moving to the Iberian peninsula. We recently returned from an amazing trip to Mallorca and Barcelona and are more in love than ever. Don’t be surprised if soon enough this blog re-brands as Eat This Spain.

The first night we arrived in Barcelona, we were tired and hungry and didn’t want to explore too far. So we found a little neighborhood spot near our hotel and somehow we were the first customers to arrive (restaurants don’t open until about 8pm but nobody shows up until a good hour after that). We were eating with a baby who was still on an American food schedule.

Bodega Sepúlveda had a very old school feel with white tablecloths and checkered panels. And their menu was as large and varied as an American diner. Except instead of pancakes and patty melts, they were serving sardines and croquetas.

We had a great meal of meat, seafood, and ham. The dish that stole the night though was the height of richness and so I’m glad they served it as the final dish. It was the revuelto de trompetas de la muerte y calamar. That’s a mouthful – even for Spanish speakers.

Revueltos are scrambled eggs (which the Spanish are experts at), But no simple plate of scrambled eggs could be Dish of the Week status, could it? Well it also helps that these had meaty crisp black trumpet mushrooms (trompetas de la muerte), bits of calamari, and the most luxuriously sweet balsamic I’ve ever tasted.

This was one of our first tastes in Barcelona and it almost couldn’t be beat.

I better learn some new words to describe Spanish food because the more I write about it, the closer I get to an official move to Spain. This post might be a taste of what this blog will look like in the future. Hope you all can read Catalan. Price: $15