Previously:

Part 1: Following The Pintxos Trail

Part 2: San Sebastian Foodie Favorites & A Great, Big Steak

Part 3: Barcelona, Spain: ?Angry? Eggs, Gung Ho for Gaudi, & Sexy Ham

Part 4: La Boqueria & El Born ? A Photo Essay

Part 5: My Favorite Restaurants
The Spanish word, gula, is a most interesting noun. Used to describe the desire to eat solely in anticipation of taste, rather than to satiate hunger, it is, in a word: greed ? or two: gluttony. Whatever it is, gula aptly describes this list of all my favorites in Barcelona.
Tapas 24

El Bulli alumnus chef, Carles Abellan, is the driving force behind Tapas 24, popular for its envelope-pushing methods on traditional tapas. The place is often described as humming and hectic but on the Sunday lunch that we are here, it?s all rather sedate (TIP: go at off-peak hours). The action is usually down the stairs and into the seemingly subterranean restaurant, but we end up taking a table outside on this gorgeously sunny day.
Tapas 24?s signature dish, or at least one of them, is the cutely coined ?bikini.? Ibérico ham and buffalo mozzarella smeared with black truffle combine to produce the most luxe take on a ham and cheese sandwich. It?s understood however that tucking into one of these insanely crisp sammies almost certainly precludes you from wearing a two-piece.
In the photo above on right, more iberian ham, this time mixed into a croquette, a synergy of smooth sassed up with shots of salt.

Perhaps the most...