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**SOMETHING SWEET: THE DONUTERIA**
Our glucosil radar has vibrated very strongly in recent days. Recently opened, ** La Donutería takes us back to Calle Parlament ** , that place that three years later continues to be on fire. After work experiences at Escribà or Mandarín Oriental, the owner decided to open your own all-american donut business (something he couldn't find in Barcelona), handmade and with carefully prepared ingredients. The result is this place with exposed brick that gives prominence to the kitchen so that from the street you can see that we are facing a donut maker Very different from supermarkets.
And the product? Well, a bun with a very yankee conception of sweets , that is, sooo sweet, delicious and robust. They plan to vary the flavors of their offer, but for now the apple, bacon and maple syrup donut it has already become a legal drug. Its wonderful coffee is the perfect complement to a pastry made with time and care. Parliament 20
sooooo sweet
**SOMETHING SAVORY: BE MY BAGEL **
We go from hole to hole but the similarities end there. be my bagel It is one of the classic snacks of Gràcia who has been serving for years bagels, sweets, soft drinks and coffees to take away from a corner of the Plaza del Sol. Bagels made by hand and at a good price that greet you from the counter generating doubts about whether to choose the classic, the one with poppy seeds, the one with black olives, the one with rosemary... There are also good homemade cakes and chocolate bagels. , but it is necessary to start with the salty ones.
They prepare at the moment bagel sandwiches and, in the best New York tradition that turned this traditional Jewish sweet into one of the emblems of the city, They offer a delicious bagel of salmon and fresh cheese and another of pastrami with mustard. For those who like the most Mediterranean combinations, they have pesto bagels or a bikini bagel that remind us that perfect elaborations admit any possible combination. _Planet 37 (Sun Square) _.
salmon bagel
**SOMETHING TASTY: A PORTUGUESE HOUSE **
We still haven't recovered from the closure of the emblematic ** Casa Portuguesa del carrer Verdi **, but the headquarters in Aragó is a consolation, where in addition to selling gourmet products with irresistible packaging and operating as a cafeteria, there is a restaurant with traditional Portuguese recipes with a daily menu at a tempting price.
But we are not here to talk about bacalhau à brás or wine tasting, but about its leitao rissois , nail dumplings stuffed with roast suckling pig that raise the blackest of spirits. If you accompany your Subtle spicy with a Belém cake and both delicacies are tasted in its beautifully decorated interior, it is impossible not to leave there swearing once again eternal love to Portugal. Arago 111.
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