Collioure is in the running to become the winner of “French favorite village’, the France Télévisions show. The city of painters also gives pride of place to the often overlooked Catalan culinary heritage.

In the medieval Mediterranean city, tapas bars like the Michelin-starred ones perpetuate Catalan traditions with finesse. The plate invokes the Mediterranean: cargolade en crème, anchovy trompe l’oeil on cocoa nibs.