西班牙的飲食業像其國家壹樣豐富多彩。有高質量的飲食原料，古老的傳統，民間烹調藝術加之有高級的職業烹調大師，使該國烹調的聲譽在歐洲排為第壹。簡略地說半島的西班牙可以分為六個烹調的大地區。
西班牙吃得多，也吃得精，傳統食品如著名的燉燒豬肉，全國各地都有，但妳到馬德裏就更不應該錯過，這是因為這裏的豬用玉米、栗子餵養，肉質優良，味道鮮美。馬德裏燉燒豬肉主要材料是用豬肉、香腸、豬骨、火腿、鹹肉，再加上包心菜、馬鈴薯和豆子壹起用火熬燉，加入大量的大蒜和香料，味醇汁濃，是每個西班牙家庭冬天最常吃的菜。
西班牙中部地區的烤羊肉非常著名，其烤羊排、烤羊腿是西班牙佳肴中的首號美味，吃起來鮮嫩多汁，壹點騷味也沒有，據說那是因為燒烤用的是小羊。鄉村地區壹些養羊的小村落，每到周末假日擠滿了從附近城市裏趕來吃烤羊的食客。除了烤羊，烤乳豬也是西班牙菜壹絕。馬德裏附近的塞戈維亞城可說是乳豬城，每家餐館的櫥窗裏都掛著壹條條待烤乳豬，門口的客人大排長龍。
實則隨性而制、變化不斷的菜品，就成了西班牙美食的標誌。
Spanish catering business is likely richly colorful. There is the high grade diet raw material, the ancient tradition, folk cooking art adds it to have the high-level occupation to cook master, causes this country cooking the prestige in the European row for first. Said briefly the peninsula Spain may divide into six cookings the big areas.
Spainish eat a lot, also eat fine, the traditional food like famous cooks burns the pork, the land has, but you should not miss to Madrid, there is because here pig feeds with the corn, the chestnut , the pulp is fine, taste delicious. Madrid cooks burns the pork primary materials is with the pork, the sausage, the pig bone, the ham, the salt meat, in addition the cabbage, the potato and the bean use the fire to boil together cook, join the massive garlics and the spice, the taste mellow juice are thick, is the most famous food in each Spanish family in the winter .
Spainish middle area's barbecued mutton is famous, its roast mutton chops, roasts the mutton leg is in the Spanish delicacies first delicacy, eats the fresh and tender juiciness, a show taste also does not have, it is said that is because bakes with is the lamb. The rural area some raise sheep's small village, crammed full has caught up with when the weekend holiday from the neighbor city eats roasts the sheep the restaurant patron. Except roasts the sheep, the roasting pig is also the Spanish vegetable one certainly. Nearby Madrid filled the Ge Weiya city to be possible saying that was the suckling pig city, in each restaurant's display window hung one to treat the roasting pig, the entrance visitor queues greatly.
Regulations along with nature, but makes, the change unceasing dish, has become the Spanish good food symbol.