Andalusian restaurants in Spain
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Restaurante Tragabuches
Sleek, modern Tragabuches is Ronda’s poshest restaurant. Points for creativity are won for the venison and sweet potatoes and the pork trotters with squid and sunflower seeds.
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Terrace Restaurant
This casual beachfront restaurant at the Hurricane Hotel is good for an economical lunch (various salads, hamburgers, chicken, local fish, steaks). In the evenings the hotel's interior restaurant, with candle-lit tables by the pool in summer, prepares creative meals, including very good salads (try the Italian salad), and main dishes such as lamb chops with garlic and rosemary.
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Restaurante la Albahaca
Gastronomic inventions are the mainstay of this swish restaurant. Housed inside an imposing building with massive studded doors it looks as if a trip here may break the bank, but in fact the lunchtime menú del día is a really great deal. Try the pork trotter with mushroom, young garlic and pea mousse (essentially just a posh version of mushy peas), or the rabbit stew.
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Casa María
Although it doesn't draw the crowds in quite the same way as the nearby Almocábar, Casa María is still worth the trip to the Barrio de San Francisco. The fresh seafood is great value and when things get going there is a wonderfully unpretentious atmosphere. The owner-chef has an impressive wine stash and orders good cuts of meat from around the country.
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Casa Robles
The dizzily bright lights of the restaurants north of the cathedral function to attract and trap buzzing sightseers, so be prepared. One good option is Casa Robles, an upmarket choice that prides itself on its natural food and elegantly styled restaurant. Its dishes, which range from braised bulls' tails to seasonal salads, are beautifully presented.
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El Churrasco
The food is rich, the portions generous and service in the shady patio room is old-school attentive. White gazpacho made from pine nuts and garnished with raisins and apple chunks is as soft and creamy as angels' wings. In contrast, meaty dishes include the eponymous churrasco, a barbecued pork fillet with a wickedly scarlet Arabian sauce.
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Taberna Restaurante Puerta Sevilla
This is a restaurant made for intimate lunches and inventive food. It has divided, private salons and a pretty plant-hung patio framed by ancient crenellations. Artistic presentation is important here, as is playfulness; specialities include bacalao (cod) tacos and duck in caramel cream.
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Casa Santa Pola
This is an atmospheric restaurant spread over three floors of an old aristocratic house. At night each of the small dining rooms is intimate and candlelit and during the day there are good views over the Tajo. The roast lamb cutlets or the roast pork are a must.
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El Rocio
Delicious rice dishes in all their glory, most of them laden with seafood, are what draw the crowds here. But the unifying theme is all things Andalucian, from the decoration to the Mediterranean seafood, and fine steaks from southern Spain’s interior.
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Vía Colón
A great place for a rich breakfast, where apron-clad, rushing waiters are overlooked by cherubs and angels. There are also meaty mains, such as the delicious jamón ibérico de bellota (ham made from pigs fed on bellotas (acorns)).
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La Mamela
An excellent and atmospheric fish eatery located right on Catalan Bay at the southern end of the beach. Dust the sand off your feet and sit down to a range of hearty paellas and fish stews. Meat fans can enjoy a peppercorn steak.
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Bandolero Restaurante
This is an attractive azulejo-lined bar, facing the western side of the Mezquita. Serves up good traditional dishes (including media-raciones) and you can sit in the bar or the restaurant patio at the back.
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Bar Casa Fernando
This place bustles with punters, most of whom are trying out the good-value menu of the day. There is a variety of options but a small dish of paella, followed by fried fish and a dreamy caramel flan will set you up nicely.
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Mariscos Y Chacinas Azoque
There's a pleasant Andalucían flavour to this fine restaurant where a cluster of dangling jamónes and a bar-top spread of seafood greet you. Relish the fishy wonders at the heart of landlocked Zaragoza.
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Casa Rubio
Dedicating itself to Mezquita arch-imitation, this busy place serves up all the usual tapas and has a comedor (dining room) upstairs. Start with salmorejo and cordero a la miel (lamb in honey).
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Almudaina
An elegant, atmospheric restaurant in a 16th-century mansion, with dark wood and damask tablecloths. Almudaina serves up excellent traditional food in individual dining rooms, including on an ivy-clad patio.
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Restaurante Albacara
Situated in the old stables of gorge side Hotel Montelirio, the Albacara serves up creative meals in an elegant environment, with plate-glass windows designed to make the most of the stupendous views.
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Taberna Sociedad de Plateros
Run by the silversmiths' guild, this well-loved restaurant in a converted convent serves a selection of generous raciones (meal-sized servings of tapas) in its light, glass-roofed patio.
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Altamira Bar-Café
With a nice terrace for some al fresco dining or lunching and busy, efficient waiters darting to and fro, Altamira is a decent choice for seafood raciones (meal-sized portions).
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Restaurante Montes
The Montes has a hugely fishy lunch menú consisting of three courses, bread and wine. There is also a long list of tempting à la carte seafood.
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Arana Restaurante
Arana serves quality Andalucian meat and seafood (entrecote in sweet Pedro Ximénez wine, monkfish in white-wine sauce) in stylish, modern surroundings.
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El Ají
A cool, modern (tiny) interior, soft jazz and a menu of nontraditional meat and vegetarian choices make Ají different in the way that only Granada can be.
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Habanita
This top restaurant serves a winning variety of Cuban (in the pre-rationing days!), Andalucian and vegetarian food. Try the fried yucca and stewed meat.
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El Terraza
Easily the most longstanding and best spot on the cathedral square, this place serves up top fresh seafood and meat from the Andalucian hills.
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Antigua Abacería de San Lorenzo
A traditional combination of provisions store, deli, tapas bar and prepared-food takeaway in a cleverly restored 17th-century house.
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