Private Barcelona Market Tour & Paella Cooking Class with Josh




Private Barcelona Market Tour & Paella Cooking Class with Josh
Discover Barcelona's flavors with a market tour and fun paella class. Meet local vendors, learn regional cuisine, and cook authentic dishes with chef Josh. A delightful culinary adventure!
Experience Details
Begin your Mercat de la llibertat tour with a taste of jamon at Josh's favorite Catalan charcuterie. Meet vendors who sell high quality, locally-sourced meat, fish, cheese, and produce and purchase local ingredients like squid or peppers for your paella from Josh's favorite vendors. Learn about the difference between Catalonian and Spanish cultures and about specialty ingredients important to the local diet; in particular, cured acorn-fed Iberian ham. Then walk to Josh's cooking studio to begin your cooking lesson and meal.
Here in a modern, professional-grade kitchen and classic 1800s-style Barcelona dining room chop fruit to prepare sangria! Josh will then show you how to prepare seafood for your paella. Learn Josh's favorite culinary tips, like how to make flavorful fish stock using local rock fish. Expect a hands-on cooking class and enjoy a traditional paella you prepared. Josh will also offer you a chance to caramelize the sugar on the top of your own crema catalana dessert!
Sample Menu
What You Get
Good To Know
- The cooking studio is located one floor up from the ground floor. However, there is an alter-able accessible elevator for those who cannot take the stairs.
- Josh requests a minimum of four guests (or for a total payment of 4 guests even if there are fewer guests) to host this private culinary experience.
- On days that Josh is not available, an equally talented colleague and fellow chef will be your host.
- 1-2 glasses of Sangria are included in the price of every experience you book.
- Josh can accommodate a vegetarian diet in his Spanish cooking class.
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
What You’ll Experience
Meeting & Pickup
Plaça de la Llibertat 23, Plaça de la Llibertat, Barcelona Catalunya, Spain, ES, 08012
Open in Google MapsThis experience ends at the meeting point.
Cancellation Policy
All bookings are final. Once the host confirms the experience, cancellations by the guest will incur a 100% charge.
Hard to choose a favorite part! My friends loved the market tour where Chef Josh took us to a local market frequented by locals (not the big touristy one) where he personally knew the food vendors ...read more

We had a great time walking around the market and getting to know the culture of Spanish food shopping. We cooked the paella from scratch and had a great time chatting, cooking and tasting :) We ca...read more

Our market tour & paella cooking class with Josh was one of the highlights of our time in Barcelona. Josh did a wonderful job teaching us how to make authentic paella & my son declared it the best ...read more



Great time with Josh and cooked a noodle version of paella which was great fun. Nice to have a bilingual host who we could understand completely and intro us to a Barcelona market. Thanks chef jo...read more



