Good paella restaurants in Sevilla?

If there’s a chance that you would like to enjoy it in this type of venue, we participated in a planned Market/Cooking class with Taller Andaluz de Cocina Cooking School. This was one of my husband’s favorite events! Since the kitchen classroom is located in the Triana Food Market, Jessica began the class by showing & explaining specific foods in the market, gathering a few ingredients, and then Chef José Manuel walked our small group through the specific Do’s & Don’t steps to making a perfect paella (& how the word “paella” is used too loosely by restaurants). We finished with a full meal and left satiated and happy!

Thank you! This sounds like just the kind of experience we are looking for! Gracias!

Gago 6 on Calle Gagos Mateos — paella is their specialty. When we ate there in 2018 it was very good.

Paella is a specialty dish from Valencia. I was once told by a Valencian friend that thou shalt not eat paella outside this region.

What I also heard is that in Barcelona many paella restaurants are owned by non-Spanish speaking immigrants and serve mostly tourists.

I don't know Sevilla and therefore cannot comment.

I'd liken Paella in Spain to Pizza in Italy, well Valencia certainly has the right to claim the "original" (with snails and all) Paella has since taken root in many other regions, and has developed its own unique regional variations, for example in Catalunya, it is popular to make it with squid ink. In Andalucia, especially in the coastal areas it is popular to do it with plenty of seafood.

Unfortunately, many of the Paella restaurants have become tourist traps, catering to clueless visitors with overpriced pre-frozen Paellas. The general rule of thumb is; if there are pictures of the paella on display outside the restaurant, then most likely it is an overpriced trap.

The other thing I would suggest, if you want a truly authentic experience, is to go out for Paella during the lunch time (around 2 pm). Locals won't eat Paella during dinner time but rather at lunch, which is the main meal of the day. The reasoning being that Paella is too heavy of a dish to eat at night, that's why we go out for tapas at night.

To add to Carlos' post, paella is a dish that takes time to cook and a decent restaurant would advise you of this, usually on the menu. I've eaten some decent paella on the coast of Andalucia (seafood based) and Mallorca which was centred around rabbit. These were all eaten at lunchtime when we were able to enjoy the time to savour a long lunch.