Sevilla restaurants/flamenco/tapas

Sevilla is a lovely city, we only spent two nights there last October and it was too short of a trip. Here are my recommendations.

• Tapas Bar in Santa Cruz area of Sevilla (not far from the Cathedral): Bodega Santa Cruz. https://m.facebook.com/BodegaSantaCruzSevilla. This place is a hopping local tapas Bar. When we ate there well just went to the bar. They write your order in chalk on the bar and they have really good selection of Tapas and local beers and Tinto de Verano (summer wine a mixture of red wine and lemon-lime soda, what locals drink instead of Sangria).
• Devour food tour with Flamenco: we love the Devour food tours (took them in Madrid and Granada). You sample from small local restaurants, go to a Flamenco show (no food) only three rows (our host knew the Flamenco dancers as she is an amateur Flamenco dancer), and then a fantastic restaurant with a modern take on tapas. These are small group tours, less than 10 people and the hosts are knowledgeable about the city, great eats. Here is the link: https://devoursevillefoodtours.com.

Enjoy,
Sandy

I took a taxi from the train station to barrio Santa Cruz. While I could have walked, I've found Spanish taxis to be clean and cheap and it's nice to just relax after a long journey.

I second the recommendation for Bodega Santa Cruz-very fun but very packed with tourists. Not a big fan of the flamencos bars but I think a good introduction is the Casa de Las Memorias, which has a more intimate space with an hour long performance-just enough time IMO.

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We just walked over the bridge to Triana and sat at the first place we found with tables by the river. Not great cuisine, but I remember the broccoli sauteed with a whole lot of garlic.

The best meal of our entire trip to Spain was at the Bar El Baratillo in Seville. It's on the same street as the laundry service recommended by both the RS Spain travel guide and our hotel. For very little money, we enjoyed baked goat cheese with red pepper sauce, grilled artichokes, pork chops, garlic prawns, and quite a bit of good Spanish wine.

http://www.barelbaratillo.com/

We wanted to find "impromptu" flamenco, but were just too tired every night we were there.

Thanks for the great suggestions and tips so far. Hmmm, tapas and Spanish wine, just my thing! :) Since its a bit before our trip, keep the suggestions coming! Gracias

In Sevilla, there are a ton of restaurants and tapas bars along Calle Mateos Gago, which is just off the Cathedral area. You could just walk along and stop where the menu looks good.

We enjoyed eating at:
Bar la Tradicional (calle Mateos Gago) -- we had a really good octopus tapas plate
Gago 6 (c/ Mateos Gago) -- known for "authentic" paella, whatever that means. We liked it!
Spala Hostereria (on Plaza Alfalfa) -- we had an awesome Saturday brunch. Caramel Belgian waffles..... yum....

There is a really good bakery (Horno el Abuelo) on Plaza Alfalfa. We stopped every evening to grab pastries for the next morning's breakfast.

We didn't eat in Triana -- just walked around -- but if you continue straight once you cross the bridge into Triana, there is a pedestrianized area that has lots of bars and restaurants. There is also a market off to your right as soon as you cross the bridge; I'm remembering reading somewhere that there's good food available inside, but we didn't go in.

You could certainly walk from the train station to your hotel, but taxis are cheap. It was 6 euro for ours from Santa Justa to our apt on Plaza Alfalfa; yours would be a tiny bit more than that. If you decide to walk, have a good map; plenty of chances to get turned around in the little medieval alleyways!

-- Deb