It all started with a small café opened in the midst of the pandemic in Platja d'Aro for cycling enthusiasts. The first meeting point for professional and amateur athletes on the Costa Brava. And in just five years, it has taken the leap to open a new location in Catalonia's great cycling mecca and also become the first specialty coffee roaster on the Girona coast. This, added to the big step forward in 2026: opening a new warehouse and reaching customers' homes with online sales (ecommerceMaglia Coffee & Co offers subscriptions to whole bean coffee. With a small team of 14 people (20 in peak season), it has just surpassed one million euros in revenue. At the helm of the project is Marc Guinó, the son of a family of restaurateurs from Maçanet de la Selva, who grew up surrounded by the sounds of coffee machines and cups in the family business. "I've always been a big coffee lover, and tasting specialty coffee was the spark that ignited my idea," he explains about the inspiration behind La Maglia. "I saw specialty coffee shops and cyclists growing in Girona, but there wasn't that kind of offering on the Costa Brava, so we created it." That's how Guinó opened his first shop on Juli Garreta street in Platja d'Aro, opposite Plaça del Mil·lenari, taking advantage of the fact that he lived in S'Agaró, and as a cyclist, he named it after the pink jersey worn by the leaders of the Giro d'Italia.

Walking through the center of Barcelona is tiring. That's a fact. And there are times when you need to stop, rest, have a coffee, and continue your route. Today, we're talking about an oasis within another oasis: the La Central bookstore in the Raval district. Bookstores are inherently places of calm where (unless it's Sant Jordi) the pace slows down and you feel more relaxed. This one also has a café inside, although we could say outside, because most of its tables are outside. The café is called Decameron, and it has three spaces. A small patio, the tables inside, where the counter for ordering is, and then the larger space, where most of the tables are.

There are places that are a town's landmarks. And that means if you spend enough time, you'll see a good portion of the locals passing by. Today we're talking about a café that meets this requirement. It's in Vilassar de Mar and is called Oh! RibbonsIt's run by Gloria and Paco, a local family who, in addition to serving good coffee (from well-known roasters like Hidden Coffee, Panoramic, Animal Coffee Roasters, etc.), also operate a grocery store. So you can buy cans of Portuguese preserves, craft beers, wines, or smoked products from the Rooftop Smokehouse.

It goes without saying that bookstores nourish the critical spirit, the thirst for knowledge, and, ultimately, the soul. But today we'll tell you about a bookstore that also nourishes us in the most prosaic, honest, and direct way possible: + Bernat.

The excessive increase in the price of olive oil, which already began to skyrocket last year and earned the nicknameliquid gold, has placed this product among the most stolen in Spanish supermarkets, and, in fact, it is the favorite of thieves in twelve communities, including Catalonia. In this way, the oil makes the overtaking and overthrows alcoholic beverages and liquors, which topped the list of thefts since the first study in 2022.

At a historic moment for coffee, when prices are sky-high, two Barcelona coffee shops are leading the rankingIt is one hundred best coffee shops in the world, which was made public this week. They are Nomad Frutas Selectas (with two establishments and about to open the third), which has placed twenty-fifth, and D·Origen Coffee Roasters Barcelona, ​​​​which has achieved fifty-fifth. The first three positions are occupied by coffee shops from Australia (Toby's Estate Coffee Roasters), the United States (Onyx Coffee LAB) and Austria (Gota Coffee Experts).