University & College Hospitality & Catering Trip To Barcelona

Set in the former Sant Agustí monastery, a visit here provides a journey through the origins of chocolate from its arrival in Europe and its spread as an element between myth and reality and also a look into its medicinal properties and nutritional value. The museum has teaching materials that can be accessed before, during and after the visit.

Students can get an inside view on a successful food manufacturing firm with a visit to the Idilia factory. Founded in the 1940s, the company established itself with Granja San Francisco Honey and Cola Cao, then expanded by incorporating competing companies in the food industry. Idilia Foods now manufactures and distributes its products globally.

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Mahou-San Miguel Beer Group offers guided tours for students to get to know the process of making their famous Spanish beer. In the factory they see how beer-making tradition is combined with modern technology to create a quality product. Audio-visuals and dedicated rooms are used to show the industrial installations, and the history of the San Miguel brand.

This is a co-operative set in Santa Pau, surrounded by beech trees and with over 500 cows. The Cooperation is operated by a workforce of mainly disabled people, creating employment opportunities. In the visit the students can see the maintenance of animals, milk production and the creation of different products like milk, yoghurts and cream.

Mercabarna is a precinct encompassing the Central Fruit and Vegetable Market, Central Fish Market, Central Flower Market, the Mercabarna Slaughterhouse, and numerous other buildings. Over 300 companies operate in the markets and over 800 in the complex as a whole. Fact>: Mercabana supplies fresh produce to over 10,000,000 consumers.

Dating back to the middle ages, the Boqueria is one of Barcelona’s leading attractions. Located on Las Ramblas, this covered market has a dizzying array of fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, confectionery and more. There’s also a ‘culinary classroom’, where you can learn to cook, and where a variety of other gastronomic events take place.

Run by Christian Escribà, known as ‘the Mozart of chocolate’, this patisserie specialises in fantastical cakes for events and functions, from giant white chocolate Winnie the Pooh bears to Dalì-esque wedding cakes adorned with chocolate lobsters, caramel ants and marzipan fried eggs. See how they work their magic on a tour of the factory and enjoy some cake.