Córdoba Restaurants

Why Moroccan and Turkish doesn't get a tick box is quite annoying.

So had to put Africa.

Excellent restaurant in the old city and above the Banos Arabes!

Favorite Dish: Had a lovely starter of mixed meze and then moved onto a lamb tajine. PUKKA!

This little bar just outside the Archaeological Museum is deservedly popular with both locals and those visitors who've come across it. Great place to relax in a lovely, little tree-lined square. Good and lengthy tapas/racion menu served by two chaps who, no matter how busy, are always lovely and friendly.

Favorite Dish: Pinchos morunos, without a doubt... though their patatas bravas are some of the best!

La Tranquera combines Cordoban and Argentinian food in a small local bar next to the Arab Baths. A few outside tables and only six or eight tables inside but the ambience is wonderful... relaxed and so, so friendly. The staff of just three are lovely. Customers are mainly locals but we were made to feel totally at home (even with my appalling Spanish). On a four day trip to Cordoba we went in three times - twice just for drinks and empanadas.

Favorite Dish: As you might have guessed from this, the empanadas are just fantastic - three kinds, though meat my favourite. And do try the Volcana for dessert - a beautifully presented hot choc brownie-type base with gorgeous vanilla ice cream on top. Would go back just for that!
And the wine was the best I've tasted in Cordoba, or even Spain!

I had an excellent lunch of Huevos Rotos in a place called the Cañas y Tapas, which was full of local people. It was so good that I went back the next day. I think I paid about 5 Euros. They do lots of other things as well as Huevos Rotos, of course.

Favorite Dish: Huevos Rotos - I like the name

many little Bar's for a Drink, or Lunch in the Juderia, not far from La Mesquita

Favorite Dish: lot's of food which cools you down..Salats, the usual tapas and trink lots of water...more food info on my Andalucia page

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The restaurant has two dining rooms, a small one for smokers, a large one for more virtuous people. The menu is the same in both rooms.

The ambience was better in the non-smoking section; the service, in the smoking room, was satisfactory.

The food wasn't. My Rabo de Toro a la Cordobesa (bull's tale, Cordoba style) was tasteless. My guess is that it was prepared in a pressure cooker.

All other courses, for both my wife and me, were just edible.

Favorite Dish: None. Though we'd go back to Cordoba just to feast at Restaurante El Churrasco, we wouldn't go back to Almudaina even if they paid us.

Taberna Plateros is located right beside the hotel where we stayed and is recommended in most Cordoban guide books. Yet it wasn't until our last night in the city that we found the time to visit. After an evening spent in various tapas bars in the city we stopped here for one final tapas and wine. The food and atmosphere in Taberna Plateros was excellent - our only regret was we didn't discover it sooner.

It's located in Calle San Francisco, a quiet part of the city, away from the crowds of the Mezquita. Prices are low, the tapas and raciones are excellent and there's usually a good crowd here, though mostly locals to judge from when we visited.

As we had already had a few tapas that night, we could only manage one racion of food between us. Picking just one was difficult but we went for berenjenas fritas (fried aubergines). The waiter brought out a huge plate for us which we washed down with glasses of local red wine. The food was excellent and had we had a bit more appetite we'd have tried more of the mouth watering dishes.

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Cafe Gaudi was the first restaurant we visited in Cordoba. On our first evening we had booked an evening walking tour of the city with the tourist office for 8.30pm, so we had to find somewhere open early serving quick meals. Cafe Gaudi was exactly that.

Many Cordoba restaurants don't open before 8pm, and indeed the first few we tried were closed. But Gaudi is more of a diner/bar than a restaurant and is open all day long. We both ordered the set menu del dia for 10 Euro. This gave us a 3 course meal including bread and a drink, which was pretty good value, especially as in many places the menu del dia is only available at lunchtime.

For starters we both had salmorejo, which is a Cordoban version of Gazpacho, the famous Andalcian soup, served cold. The Cordodan version is thicker than regular Gazpacho, but equally as tasty. For main course we had another Cordoban speciality called Flamenquin, which is a deep fried roll of ham, cheese & pork.

The food was nice and good value, though we did visit better restaurants during our stay in the city.