Salou is again the pole of gastronomic attraction of the Costa Dorada from May 17 to 26 with a new edition, and already eight, Gastrotour Salou. No less than 64 establishments between bars and restaurants have prepared a proposal of succulent tapas to taste for the modest price of 2.5 euros, which includes a fifth of the San Miguel brand, which is the official beer. As a novelty this 2019, 6 of the 64 establishments have prepared a menu consisting of 5 tapas, a dessert and San Miguel beer for 20 euros.
In addition, the little ones can also enjoy this gastronomic experience with the BabyTour route, dedicated exclusively to children tasting. In this way Gastrotour Salou allows family tours, adapting tapas to all palates. So Gastrotour Salou 2019 includes a rich and varied range of salty tapas, sweet, cold, hot, traditional, more sophisticated or fusion that leave no one indifferent.
For this edition, all the information about Gastrotour Salou has been reissued in 4 languages (Catalan, Spanish, English and French) given the touristic nature of the municipality and the growing interest in local gastronomy.
To encourage participation, people who do 10 tastings can fill out the form that is included in the program, vote for the best cover, the most original cover, and the best service, and deposit it in the ballot boxes distributed in each of the participating establishments. Thus, they will enter the raffle for different prizes.
In addition, there will also be a photo contest for social networks open to all residents, neighbors, and visitors of the municipality of legal age. The images presented in the draw by the participants may be used by the City Council in their institutional social networks to disseminate the event or produce promotional material.
Participants must take a photograph in one of the restaurants or establishments participating in the gastronomic route of Gastrotour 2019, upload it to their Instagram account or Facebook profile and label it as #ConcursGastrotour2019. To be valid, the photograph must portray a person or group of people eating one of the tapas of Gastrotour 2019 along with the fifth of San Miguel beer.
The prizes that will be offered to the winners are:
2 tickets to PortAventura
1 gastronomic experience for two people
2 double tickets to visit the San Miguel factory
Only those images in which a cover of any of the restaurants participating in this promotion will be taken into account in the raffle will be taken into account. Images of tapas from other restaurants that do not participate in Gastrotour Salou 2019 will not be accepted.
One more year, the Shopping Association Salou collaborates with the Gastrotour with the Shopping Tour initiative, which consists of the customers that buy in the associated establishments will get a gift as a gift.
The presentation ceremony of the new edition of Gastrotour was attended by the mayor of Salou, Pere Granados, together with the Councilor for Promotion and Business Promotion, Trade, Markets and Consumption, Martina Fourrier. The presentation was welcomed by the restaurant La Pasión, which won the prize for the best tapa in 2018. The event was also attended by Manel Grau, and Francisco Soler, representatives of San Miguel, as well as Pep Moreno, president of the Association of Hotel Business Owners of Salou, and representatives of the Asociación Shopping Salou.
