{"id":43228,"date":"2015-04-30T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=43228"},"modified":"2021-10-13T18:06:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T16:06:34","slug":"vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"The best vegan salads in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Spain, it is more normal for people to eat a salad<\/strong> as a starter or as an accompaniment to other dishes. Therefore, finding a decent main course salad that is vegan- or vegetarian-friendly<\/strong>, and isn\u2019t just iceberg lettuce with a tablespoon of tinned sweetcorn and a few slices of anemic tomato served with no dressing at all, is not as easy as you\u2019d imagine. Spain is a country famous for its apparently healthy Mediterranean<\/a><\/strong> diet but outside of fish and olives, it\u2019s easy to get the impression that the average diet here consists of deep fried fish, red meat and white bread.<\/p>\n

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Even in the dynamic and fashionable Catalan capital it can prove difficult to find a big and <\/span>tasty salad<\/strong> that doesn\u2019t involve goats cheese or tinned tuna fish.<\/p>\n

Beware the ubiquitous \u2018vegetable salad<\/strong>\u2019 (ensalada vegetal) that you will encounter on most Spanish and Catalan menus, as this usually contains tuna fish. Vegetable salad<\/strong>, not vegetarian salad<\/strong>, sadly.<\/p>\n

Luckily, however, there are great salads<\/strong> around, often vegan,<\/strong>\u00a0raw-vegan<\/strong> or with options to modify to suit your dietary needs. The best we\u2019ve found so far are as follows:<\/p>\n

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