Origin and local sourcing top the bill in the food offering at Festival Cruïlla 2021

Barcelona gets back one of its major music events: the Cruïlla Festival, held at Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona on 8, 9 and 10 July. This year, alongside a top-flight line-up of music, art and comedy, Cruïlla is innovating in its food offer and becoming the meeting point for local food produce, with Gastroteca.cat. The leading search engine for local food, run by Prodeca-DACC, will promote greater awareness and consumption of Catalan food at Cruïlla: good, healthy and sustainable.  

The Cruïlla festival is committed to ensuring that all the food on offer uses local ingredients made by local Catalan producers. The catering area, called La Gastroteca del Cruïlla, will bring together 35 food trucks expected to serve 57,000 tastings featuring local produce over the festival's three days. Prodeca, through Gastroteca, has facilitated contact and trade relations between the various food operators and local Catalan producers , while INCAVI has arranged the presence of Catalan wines at the festival

Local sourcing, sustainability, territory, origin, quality and authenticity will be the values the Cruïlla Festival promotes and offers the public in its catering area: almost 1,000 m2 spread across the site where visitors can try sandwiches, tapas and small plates, burgers and dishes from world cuisines, all made with locally sourced ingredients and raw materials. 

La Gastroteca del Cruïlla will be a showcase for Catalan products and producers, supplying the core ingredients for the culinary offerings of the roughly 35 food trucks that make up the festival's food line-up. Products visitors will be able to discover and taste in the food trucks' dishes include bread from Cal Tiana, a bakery with more than 150 years of artisan tradition; organic vegetables from the Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park, the Maresme and the Pla d'Urgell; pulses from local Vallès varieties; organic Bruna dels Pirineus beef from several local farms; frankfurters made with pork from small Catalan producers; extra virgin olive oil from the Les Garrigues PDO; glutinous rice from the Estany de Pals; organic chicken from Riera de Gaià; organic eggs from Tofaroques de Sora; or goat's cheese from Mas el Garet in La Xixoneta's ice creams. 

Backing Catalan wines at Cruïlla

The commitment to local ingredients will also be present in the artists' catering and at the Catalan wine stand of the DO Catalunya , which will serve wines and sparkling wines from that designation. The presence of Catalan wines at the Cruïlla Festival has been arranged through the Catalan Institute of Vine and Wine (INCAVI), which will also provide reusable wine glasses to Cruïlla attendees under the slogan 'Catalunya, Terra de Vi'. This INCAVI initiative is part of its commitment to spreading wine culture and linking this quintessentially Catalan product with music. 

The transformation of the food offer is part of the activity strand of the brand, Catalonia, where food is culture which promotes greater awareness and consumption of local products among the public, and has been made possible through the coordination of Prodeca, the promoter of Catalan food and a company attached to the Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, which has put companies taking part in Cruïlla in touch with local Catalan producers to encourage business flows and trade relations.