A Portuguese woman and a Brazilian man defend the Catalan burning in Barcelona's Born district.

BarcelonaWe're near Santa Maria del Mar (Canvis Vells, 2, Barcelona) to discover the small establishment specializing in Catalan cream. It's called Sucre Cremat, and they offer a 150ml tub of the creamy dessert topped with a thin layer of crunchy sugar for five euros. The establishment has a subtitle: "Authentic Catalan cuisine." Who had the brilliant idea of creating a special store featuring the most representative desserts of our land? Who saw the potential and gastronomic joy of Catalan cream? A Brazilian and a Portuguese woman.

Mario Quintero and Sofía Fortuna are partners in life and business. Quintero's great-grandmother and grandfather came from the Born neighborhood, which is why they settled there. It's "also a way of paying homage to the Catalan grandmother," they emphasize. Fortuna arrived in Catalonia in 2008 and fell in love. She says they wanted to open in the Born neighborhood because there were no Catalan products. She proudly explains that all the ingredients they use are from here. Like the carquinyoli that tops the Catalan cream, which is from Tarragona. Aside from the Catalan cream to go, you'll also find La Finca coffees, like a Catalan cream latte, or DelaCrem ice cream with... you guessed it: Catalan cream.

The place is nice, on the corner and unashamedly claims one of our products, which already appears (in a version that is not exactly like the one we do now) in the Sent Soví's Book"Just like when we go to Lisbon we always want to buy a Pastel de Belém, we'd like everyone who comes to Barcelona to not leave without trying a Catalan cream from Sucre Cremat," adds the icing on the cake—or should we say the carquinyoli?—Sofia Fortuna.