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Stroll on Las Ramblas (a tile-covered tree-lined pedestrian walkway, the busied and most lively street of the city), La Plaça Catalunya (emotional center of Barcelona) i El Portal de l\'Àngel (a commercial pedestrian road). Walk in Born, a very popular area with great restaurants and places to have a few drinks. Barcelona has some of the best restaurants and cafes in Europe. For starters, you might try any of the large cafes that line the Passeig de Gracia and the Rambla de Catalunya, just north of the Plaça de Catalunya: nearly all offer a variety of excellent tapas (appetizers), although a bit expensive. You can get food from any part of the world in Barcelona, but make sure you try some specifically Catalan food. The great Catalan staple is pa amb tomaquet: toasted bread, covered in olive oil, then smeared with garlic and tomato. The selection of seafood is consistently great, although not a lot of it is local (this part of the Mediterranean is pretty well fished-out). In Spain, coffee is strong and slightly bitter. A cafe con leche (generally at breakfast only) is about 50% coffee, 50% hot milk. Ask for grande or double if you want a large cup, en vaso if you want a smaller shot in a glass, or sombra if you want lots of milk. A cafe solo is an espresso (short black); cafe cortado is an espresso with a little milk. For iced coffee, ask for cafe con hielo; you\'ll get a glass of ice and a hot cup of coffee, to be poured over the ice. If you can\'t deal with caffeine ask for a descafeinado.