La Cure Gourmande

If you want some really great, and I do mean awesome cookies and treats, La Cure Gourmande is the place where you find them. Better yet, the place is cheerful, has a pleasant bright décor, is loaded with every variety and type you can think of as well as some you’ve probably never know. The staff is really pleasant, even to the point of being exuberant, all speaking English, more than willing to be helpful and even offering various samples.
I couldn’t resist picking up a tin of apple/​fig biscuit like cookies which I found to be totally delicious and as in a tin nicely packed so as to be more than suitable to load in your suitcase for travel.

Everyone’s so nice and smiley here! You get a free cookie when you come in (ours had chocolate inside, yummm). You can buy a box of assorted treats or bag up a smaller amount.

While we were wandering down the street eating our cone of meat (yes that’s a thing), I noticed this shop across the street. I’m not going to lie: The bright colors and cookies seen from the doorway are what drew me in. I’m glad we went as well. We were just browsing the store and a very nice and friendly salesperson asked us if we wanted a sample of the cookie. They were handing out their butter cookies filled with an apricot center. Why not? I’ll tell you why not, because those cookies are flipping delicious. The cookie melts in your mouth and the apricot center is pretty much the best thing I’ve ever had. I wanted some, and I wanted some now!
The biscuits in the tin seemed like they were going to be way too many for two people, so we decided to just get a few cookies and put them in a bag for later. I opted for the anise (because ANISE!), fig, apricot (of course) and raspberry. The other half got the same except for he got the orange instead of the fig. I then decided to look around and figure out something to bring back for my co-​workers, and I was drawn to the «olives au chocolat». I mean they looked like olives, but they were clearly just chocolate covered almonds. And my suspicions were then confirmed when they gave us one to try. Delicious. And purchased.
At the register they also gave us a sample of their marzipan candy. I’m not a fan of marzipan, so we didn’t get any, but we sure did try it. We left pleased with our purchases, and much later that night drunkenly devoured our cookies. Then I realized that we’re visiting my family in a couple of weeks, so we should get biscuits to bring back for them! So the next day we went back and got a tin of apricot biscuits to take as a gift. And we took advantage of the free samples they hand out and tried the chocolate and hazelnut cookie and the chocolate chip cookies. They are some seriously good cookies.
Go in and wander around and try some free samples. If you don’t like, you can go, but the free samples are so good you’re probably going to buy something like we did. They definitely have their sales pitch down, but the cookies and candies do speak for themselves.

I really liked this little shop. It’s definitely cheerful and bright as mentioned in other reviews, but I think it is quite welcoming and fun.
They have all kinds of things here — cookies, chocolate, candies, etc. But I was obsessed with their nougats. Holy cow, they are great. I still have a couple left at home and the thought of them is making my mouth water. The nougats with pistachio and almond are the best! The candied lemon peel ones are good as well. Very flavorful and thick and tasty! So good!
The staff was friendly and helpful and they had samples (always a plus in my book!). I tried one of the cookies and it was quite good.
Prices are a bit high, which is why I didn’t go for the full five stars. Three nougats were about 5 € (prices are set by weight). I think it ought to be a bit cheaper than that!

An overly cheerful, juvenile décor gives off a slightly creepy vibe. I could easily believe the children on the packages, with their strained smiles and wild eyes, are in fact alive and trapped in the 2D world of the plastic wrapper.
Or maybe the incredibly pushy salespeople put me in a sinister mood.
The candy itself is quite good and it makes a great treat for your co-​workers when you return home and back to work.
So, here’s your best plan. This should happen in one fluid motion. You are like a cat:
1. Stride in with confidence.
2. Head straight for the cash register.
3. Make no eye contact.
4. Ignore any jibber-​jabber from the salespeople. You don’t speak English. You don’t speak Spanish. You don’t speak anything.
5. Grab the first thing you can lay hands on.
6. Glance down quickly, confirm you got candy and not the odd bag of «candified» olives. Unless that’s your sort of thing. In which case, go with your bad self.
7. Grab something else if you have to.
8. Hand your item (s) to the cash register clerk along with a wad of money.
9. Chant «No thank you no gracias» until you are given a bag & change.
10. Run for the door!
Bona sort!

Cuando entras en esta tienda y ves los montoncitos de pastas de diferentes tipos, te entran ganas de coger una caja y llevártelas todas. Y más aun si tienes la suerte de que uno de sus dependientes te ofrezca probar una de sus pastas (casi siempre están en la puerta ofreciéndolas). Elaboran pastas como las pastas de coco, pastas con un toque de canela, pastas con zumo de limón, pastas rellenas de crema de fresa o chocolate, etc. Puedes comprarlas por separado y llevarte una bolsa con las que elijas, o también llenar una de sus cajas de metal, ideales para regalar.
También venden chupa chups riquísimos y bombones. Es algo cara, Pedro merece la pena por el sabor de las pastas y por la preciosa presentación con la que te presentan las cajitas.
Forma parte de una cadena presente en varios países europeos.

Parece el cielo de las galletas: paredes pintadas de color oro, colores y más colores y galletas y más galletas. Hay una variedad infernal, todas cuidadosamente envasadas en una bonitas cajas de metal. Creo que es un buen detalle para regalar, porque las cajas son de estilo antigüo, muy alejadas de las actuales, así se pueden recordar viejos tiempos mientras muerdes una galleta.

¡El monstruo de las galletas amenaza la ciudad! ¿Qué podemos hacer? ¿Existe algún remedio o alguna cura?
Sí, se llama «La cure Gourmande» y es una tienda de galletas que está situada en la calle Ferran, cerca de la Plaza Sant Jaume. Su interior parece de oro.
Esta tienda está destinada a todos los devoradores de galletas. Nunca se las podrán comer todas ya que hay cientos de variedades, gustos y tipos de galletas y caramelos. Además, al entrar siempre te dejan probar alguna de sus variedades, con lo que es imposible no caer en la tentación y así calmar al monstruo que todos llevamos dentro.

Ya desde la calle se nota que algo pasa. Es un local con tonos muy alegres, que cuenta con puertas bien grandes hacia el interior. Lo primero que salta a la vista son los 16 tipos de galletas artesanales. Sabor frambuesa, almendras, rellenas de pasta de higo… la variedad invita a llevarse una porción que empaquetan en una exclusiva cajita de metal con diseño.
Definitivamente un aire fresco entre los típicos bares y tiendas de ropa de la calle Ferrán.