Bomba Bar Cova Fumada

56 Baluard , Palau de Mar building

Barcelona , Spain

34-93-221-4061

The past lives on at this historic haunt where actual fishermen order up salt-cod croquettes at a tatty old marble counter. Twenty dollars buys grilled sardines, terrific bacalao fritters, and bomba, a crisp meat-and-mashed-potato cannonball doused in an explosively fiery sauce.