Spain Guide
Andalucía
Eating
1 La Albahaca Plaza Santa Cruz 29 
954 220 714 Charming traditional restaurant housed in a converted mansion where three intimate period rooms hung with paintings provide the ambience. Price: Fairly expensive, but menú for around €30 Opening time: Closed Sun
2 Bar Modesto c/Cano y Cueto. At the north end of Santa Cruz, this mid-priced bar-restaurant offers a tempting menú and great tapas. House specials include punta de solomillo (pork tenderloin) and coquinas (clams). Price: Menú €20
3 Café Rayuela c/Miguel de Mañara 9 Pleasant lunchtime venue serving value-for-money raciones and salads at outdoor tables in a pedestrianized street behind the turismo.
4 La Judería c/Cano y Cueto 13 954 412 052 Solid mid-priced restaurant with a good-value daily menú. Revueltos are a speciality.Price: Menú €20
5 Kaede Hotel Alfonso XIII, c/San Fernando 2 In the gardens of the town's swishest address, this is an authentic and entertaining Japanese restaurant. Sushi and sashimi are included on a good-value menú.Price: Menú €18
6 Mesón del Pulpo c/Tomás Ibarra 10 Excellent little Galician restaurant popular with locals. Specializes (as the name implies) in pulpo a la gallega (octopus), and there's a decent menú.Price: Menú €12
7 Pizzeria San Marco c/Mesón del Moro 4 Good, cheap Italian pasta and pizzas served inside a remarkable twelfth-century Moorish bathhouse.
8 As-Sawïrah c/Galera 5 Superb Moroccan restaurant offering a variety of North African dishes including a delicate couscous and their house special tajin de cordero con membrillos (lamb with quinces). Price: Lunch menú €12 Opening time: Closed Sat eve & Sun
9 Bar-Restaurante Casa Manolo c/San Jorge 16 Buzzing Triana bar-restaurant with tapas and raciones (or breakfast) in the bar or economical platos combinados in a dining room just off it.
10 El Faro de Triana Puente de Triana 954 331 251 Sitting atop the western end of the Puente de Triana (aka Puente de Isabel II), the dining room and roof terrace here give amazing river views. Tapas at the bar and raciones at the tables consist of fish, meat and seafood.
11 Kiosko de las Flores c/Betis near to the Río Grande. One of Seville's best-loved fried-fish emporia on the riverside, with a delightful terrace; tapas are served in the bar and moderately priced raciones on the terrace – just the place on a summer night. Opening time: Closed Mon
12 La Primera del Puente c/Betis 66 The riverside terrace of the restaurant over the road has one of the city's best vistas; soft-talk a waiter to get a frontline table. You can enjoy low-priced, generous raciones or media raciones of fish, meat and seafood.
13 Río Grande c/Betis 70 954 273 956 This mid-priced Triana restaurant has the best view in town from its terrace on the river's west bank facing the Torre del Oro, and is the ideal venue for a lunchtime feast of traditional meat and fish dishes. Their next-door tapas bar is also worth a visit. Price: Mains €12–20
14 La Sopa Boba c/Torneo 85 954 379 784 Mid-priced, modern and attractive place with a creative approach; specials include manzana con bacalao y cabrales (cod with apples and goat's cheese). Opening time: Closed Sun eve & Mon
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Taberna El Alabardero c/Zaragoza 20 954 502 721 Elegant nineteenth-century casa-palacio sevillana with attractive decor and an upmarket clientele. Pricey – and outstanding – restaurant upstairs where the menú de degustación costs €60; however, a daily €17.50 lunchtime menú in the patio bar below comes from the same kitchen.
16 Habanita c/Golfo s/n, a small street off c/Pérez Galdos Meat, fish and vegetarian dishes with a Caribbean slant are served up at this inexpensive diner; try their yuca con salsa mojito (sweet potato with spicy sauce) and berenjenas Habanita (aubergine house-style). Has a pleasant terrace.
17 Mesón Serranito Alfonso XII 9, behind the El Corte Inglés department store Cosy little restaurant beyond a lively tapas bar out front, with excellent fish and meat dishes and a menú for €9.
18 Pando c/San Eloy 4 Lively, stylish tapas and raciones restaurant, which also does salads. An ideal lunch stop.
19 Restaurante Los Gallegos c/Capataz Franco Friendly and inexpensive Galician restaurant in a tiny alley off c/Martín Villa, serving gallego specialities (try their tarta de Santiago dessert). Price: Menú €14
20 Zarabanda c/Padre Tarín 6 Friendly little family restaurant cooking pizzas and traditional dishes to a high standard. Also does salads and is just the place for a lunch stop.