Due to certain connections in the New York Catalan community, I was able to enjoy an incredible feast at Mercat on Sunday night. We braved the rain and were rewarded with a wide selection of tapas including:

• pa amb tomaquet (toasted bread rubbed with tomato and olive oil
• arbaquines (small Catalan olives)
• calamarcets (fried baby squid with lemon)
• rap amb romesco (monkfish with romesco)
• beef with eggplant (can’t remember what it’s called)
• fideus negres (noodles with squid in its own ink)
• crema catalana
• fried dough with chocolate
• espresso
• rose cava
• …all washed down with a Spanish rioja (okay, not Catalan but still nice)

Tell all your friends!