I had a lunch in Spain with the prolific author Luis Benavides-Barajas. This man has forgotten more about Spanish food than I will ever know.

El Chambao de Joaquin is a well established restaurant located at the nicest end of the beach in La Herradura – the calmest place on the Costa Tropical of Spain.

It would be a mistake to take classic Spanish meals such as a tortilla for granted. But making a top class, terrific tortilla is not child’s play.

It is two years the culinary world of Spain mourned the passing of the award winning Catalan chef Santi Santamaria.

It would be possible to eat the very best of Spanish food without leaving the popular destination of Barcelona.

The stretch of the Costa Blanca around Denia is packed full of International restaurants. But can you find quality Spanish food in an area more readily associated with tourism?

For a young man who failed religiously at school, Andoni Luis Aduriz is doing very well for himself as an adult. Yet another inspired and inspirational chef at work in Spain.

The last thing I want to see with Spanish food is predictably. And as long as people as imaginative as Carles Abellán are at work, that will never happen.

Sergi Arola is positively mature in the world of Spanish gastronomy.

In Girona the Roca brothers work together and rule supreme when it comes to the very best of Spanish cooking.