Paella cooking class with dinner and wine on La Rambla

For three hours you cook as a group, with a chef, the five dishes of a Spanish dinner, and then you sit down to eat them in front of the windows overlooking La Rambla. You start with a seasonal cold soup, such as gazpacho or salmorejo, continue with the potato omelette and the bread with tomato, and the centrepiece of the evening is the seafood paella, which is made with chicken on Mondays and public holidays. It finishes with a crema catalana. Red and white wine and water are unlimited, and you take the recipe book home in digital form.

A paella at dinner time, four evenings a week

The class starts at 18:00 and ends at 21:00 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It is given in English, with chefs who also speak Spanish, and groups are no larger than twelve people. It costs €85 per adult and €45 per child; the school does not publish a minimum age, so if you are going with children, ask beforehand. The menu changes with what is in the market and is adapted to allergies if you say so when booking.

If you would rather see the produce first, the same school has a morning version that starts at La Boqueria with a ham tasting: it lasts four hours, from 10:00 to 14:00, and costs €99.

Up to the first floor of number 58

The school is on the first floor of La Rambla, 58, on the Boqueria side. You get off at Liceu, on metro line 3, and you are two minutes away. Book on the school's website, which shows the free places; the money is only refunded if you cancel more than 48 hours ahead.