The B44 restaurant, a Catalan bistro in San Francisco

San Francisco has a great representative of the best Mediterranean Catalan cuisine. The restaurant of chef Daniel Olivella offers an impressive selection of traditional delicious dishes that have been praised by American food commentators.

The B44 restaurant imports itself Montsià rice for the ten different paellas and rice recipes Daniel offers in his restaurant. This rice is my personal choice also, because it cooks beautifully, and doesn't give you unpleasant surprises when cooking paellas.

Montsià is a rice region at the southernmost end of Catalonia, bathed by the Ebre (Ebro) River. Apart from rice, it produces juicy clementines that are really mouthwatering.

The Montsià region can boast not only a wonderful mountainous landscape and the Mediterranean Sea, but plenty of rice dishes too: arròs a banda, arròs rossejat, and also fideuada or noodle-paella dish. Montsià natives are rice masters when growing rice and when cooking it too.

By the way, if you are a basketball fan, you may find yourself dining next to Pau Gasol, the Catalan basketball player from the Memphis team. Pau Gasol visits the B44 restaurant whenever he has the chance.

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