Need Help Reading a Menu in Barcelona? We found a Menu Decoder for Catalan!

If you will be visiting Cataluña, it is important to remember that Catalan is an official language and street signs, menus and other documents will be printed in Catalan. To help understand menus and restaurant brochures, you may want to print this nifty menu "decoder" that Arthur Frommer's BudgetTravel site has posted, written by Mark de la Vina. It contains general food-related terms as well as names of the popular regional dishes with descriptions in English.

• Menu Decoder for Catalan
• Spanish Regional Cuisine of Cataluña
- Learn about the regional cuisine unique to Cataluña that includes a list of Catalan recipes and links.

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