{"id":3286,"date":"2026-10-06T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/coca-bread-with-tomato\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:27:41","slug":"coca-bread-with-tomato","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/coca-bread-with-tomato\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca bread with tomato"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3286\" class=\"elementor elementor-3286 elementor-3284 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-89a3b7b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"89a3b7b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7e7d2d1\" data-id=\"7e7d2d1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb73123 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"eb73123\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Coca bread with tomato<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64d1310 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"64d1310\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f924c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"5f924c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>.cl-pc{max-width:820px;margin:0 auto;padding:56px 20px 72px;color:#201E18}.cl-pc-lead{font-size:20px;line-height:1.6;margin:0 0 40px}.cl-pc h2{font-size:30px;line-height:1.25;color:#3E3F24;margin:48px 0 20px}.cl-pc h2:after{content:\"\";display:block;width:56px;height:2px;background:#BA8747;margin-top:14px}.cl-pc-time{list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;border-left:2px solid #E7E1D4}.cl-pc-time li{margin:0;padding:0 0 22px 22px;position:relative}.cl-pc-time li:before{content:\"\";position:absolute;left:-6px;top:8px;width:10px;height:10px;border-radius:50%;background:#BA8747}.cl-pc-year{display:block;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:14px;color:#723736;margin-bottom:2px}.cl-pc-press{list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;display:grid;gap:14px;grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr}.cl-pc-press a{display:block;height:100%;background:#F6F2E9;border:1px solid #E7E1D4;border-radius:6px;padding:18px 20px;text-decoration:none;color:#201E18}.cl-pc-press a:hover{border-color:#BA8747}.cl-pc-out{display:block;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#3E3F24}.cl-pc-date{display:block;font-size:13px;color:#7A7660;margin:2px 0 8px}.cl-pc-tt{display:block;font-size:18px;line-height:1.35;font-weight:700}.cl-pc-more{display:block;margin-top:10px;font-size:15px;color:#723736}.cl-pc-cta{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;margin:44px 0 0}.cl-pc-cta a{display:inline-block;padding:14px 26px;border:1px solid #3E3F24;color:#3E3F24;text-decoration:none;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:.04em}.cl-pc-cta a.cl-pc-main{background:#3E3F24;color:#fff}.cl-pc-note{margin:40px 0 0;padding:16px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #E7E1D4;font-size:15px!important;line-height:1.55!important;font-style:italic;color:#6E6A55}@media(max-width:767px){.cl-pc{padding:36px 20px 56px}.cl-pc h2{font-size:25px}.cl-pc-press{grid-template-columns:1fr}.cl-pc-cta a{width:100%;text-align:center}}<\/style><style>.cl-dish{display:grid;grid-template-columns:2fr 3fr;gap:32px;align-items:start;margin:8px 0 0}.cl-dish figure{margin:0}.cl-dish img{display:block;width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:4px}.cl-dish h2{margin-top:0!important}.cl-dish-price{font-size:22px;font-weight:700;color:#723736;margin:14px 0 0}@media(max-width:767px){.cl-dish{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:20px}}<\/style><div class=\"cl-pc\"><p class=\"cl-pc-lead\">Toasted, crisp coca bread with tomato, olive oil and salt. It goes with everything on the menu, at Carrer de la Cera, 49.<\/p><div class=\"cl-dish\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/can-lluis-pa-amb-tomaquet-1.jpg\" alt=\"Coca bread with tomato at Can Llu\u00eds\" width=\"779\" height=\"1169\"><\/figure><div><h2>How we make it at Can Llu\u00eds<\/h2><p>We make it with coca bread, thin and crisp, toasted, with tomato, olive oil and salt. It comes to the table cut into strips, to eat with your fingers alongside everything else: the anchovies, the cured sausage, the p\u00e2t\u00e9 or the fritters.<\/p><p class=\"cl-dish-price\">\u20ac4.20<\/p><p class=\"cl-dish-alg\" style=\"font-size:.88em;opacity:.8;margin:.5em 0 0\">Contains gluten. We have gluten-free bread: just ask our staff.<\/p><\/div><\/div><h2>A little history<\/h2><p>This is not an ancient dish: tomatoes came from the Americas, and bread with tomato is perhaps two centuries old. The first written record dates from 1884: the writer Pompeu Gener tells a friend, in a letter in verse from Paris, that bread with oil \u201camanit amb tomaca\u201d (dressed with tomato) had become fashionable there, and that even the great Sarah Bernhardt had made herself a slice. The same year it turns up in a Barcelona stage play, <em>La taberna<\/em>.<\/p><p>According to a theory by the food writer N\u00e8stor Luj\u00e1n, it was born in the countryside in a year of plenty, when someone rubbed tomato onto bread that was going dry so as not to waste it. It used to be a summer dish; in winter it was possible thanks to hanging tomatoes, tied in bunches and kept hanging for months. For a long time farmhouses kept them for themselves and they were not even sold at market.<\/p><p>The rules are few but firm: good bread, ripe tomato rubbed on by hand (never tinned or blended), oil and salt. The rest is argument: the poet Narc\u00eds Comadira jokes that there are only two kinds of Catalans, those who rub the bread on one side and those who rub it on both. Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, in <em>La cocina de los mediterr\u00e1neos<\/em>, settles it in four lines: bread, tomato, oil and salt.<\/p><h2>Also on the menu<\/h2><p>Put the <a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/salt-cod-esqueixada\/\">salt cod esqueixada<\/a> (\u20ac16.00) or the <a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/salt-cod-fritters\/\">salt cod fritters<\/a> (\u20ac10.50) next to it.<\/p><div class=\"cl-pc-cta\"><a class=\"cl-pc-main\" href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/reservations\/\">Book a table<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/menu\/\">See the menu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/our-dishes\/\">All our dishes<\/a><\/div><p class=\"cl-pc-note\">Further reading: <em>Hist\u00f2ria de la cuina catalana i occitana<\/em>, vol. VIII, by Vicent Marqu\u00e9s (Edicions Sidill\u00e0, 2025); <em>\u00c0pats<\/em>, by Alba Sunyer and Clara Ant\u00fanez (Parcir Edicions Selectes i Joviat, 2022); <em>Cuina catalana<\/em>, by Borja Sierra and \u00d2scar G\u00f3mez (Montagud Editores); and <em>La cocina de los mediterr\u00e1neos<\/em>, by Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n (Ediciones B, 2002).<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3286","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coca bread with tomato - Can Llu\u00eds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/coca-bread-with-tomato\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coca bread with tomato - 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