Originally Posted by
VivoPerLei
I would say you missed out. Barnacles are one of my favorite delicacies, particularly the rock barnacles that you get in the Azores. Served in the shell with a little warm salty water, oh man... I did have barnacles on a recent trip to Barcelona and they weren't quite as good, but they also were not served in the shell.
To be fair, I never saw them on a menu, only at the market.
Actually one of my biggest fears in Barcelona was ordering something off a menu and getting an unpleasant surprise like a plate full of barnacles.
Most places I ate had menus that were partially translated into English with a few key apparently untranslatable Catalan words.