An Acquired Taste

Great things have come out of Great Britain - The Sex Pistols, Vivienne Westwood and Martin Amis spring to mind, just to mention a few - but food isn't one of them, unless you consider bangers and mash a culinary triumph.

Few do here, if the gapingly empty food aisles at Plaça Catalunya's Marks & Spencer (RIP) were anything to go by. Maybe it was simply that people felt that a brand selling suits and knickers had no business making curries and egg & mayo sarnies, too, but the fact remains that it was only ever busy at the closing fire sale.

Since then, expats and anglophiles have been relying on trips home or visiting relatives to stock up on custard and shortbread cookies, but now they'll only have to venture to Sant Antoni where A Taste of Home has set up shop.

It's no Marks & Sparks - it's small and looks more like your local Pakistani than purveyors to HM Lizzie - but it's well stocked with both dry and frozen foods from Blighty. Tea, anyone?

A Taste of Home -now open
Floridablanca 78, Sant Antoni
Mon-Sat 10-21h, Sun 10-16h

by AAl