I was just in the Barcelon area last spring filming a few Great Chefs episodes. We filmed at El Bulli, Neichel, Via Veneto, Abac and my favourite L'Esguard in Sant Andreu de Llavaneres where we also ate lunch. The Chef there is Miguel Sanchez Romero a self taught chef who is also the head of neurology at a local hospital where he specialises in epilepsy. He is originally from Argentina. He has developed a new sauce base for cooking that is derived from cassava. It is odorless, tasteless and colourless. It allows him to thicken sauces without heating them or adding fat from butter or milk and the sauces do not "break". His restaurant is in an old winery abutting his home and it is open 4 days a week (the other three he is at the hospital). He has one Michelin star now but definately deserves at least another. Anyone going to Barcelona should go there for munch, it is about 30 minutes away from the city.