Córdoba Restaurants

La Cavea is a great place to go for breakfast or a coffee while exploring Cordoba. It's located on Plaza Jeronimo Paez, an elegant square in the medina, close to the Mezquita. Unlike many cafes in the area it's excellent value for money. We had breakfast here two mornings during our stay and paid less than 5 Euro each time - that gave us 2 cafe con leches, tostados and orange juices.

The cafe has seats inside as well as a large terrace area on one of the most historic squares in the city. On one side of the square is the archaeological museum, while traces of a Roman theatre can also be seen around the square.

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Based on reviews by other travelers and in guidebooks, I reserved a table at Alumdaina several weeks before we left for Spain.

Though the servivce was fine, my wife and I were gravely disappointed by the food. The mushrooms in my appetizer -- mushrooms in shrimp saunce -- tasted as if they had come from a can (or jar). Worse yet, my oxtail entree was almost certainly prepared in a pressure cooker.

Favorite Dish: I'd go to McDonald's -- they're all over Andalucia -- before I'd go back to Almudaina.

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After spending the morning and early exploring Corodoba and the Cathedral, in looking for a place to eat most of the places near the Mezquita seemed overpriced, selling a sandwich and soda for euro. A short walk N of Cardenal Herrero on a narrow street lined with souvenirs, post card stands is the Restaurante El Toreo. Inside is a very comfortable restaurante with arched walls in the mujadar architecture style

Favorite Dish: Cold beer, spicey sausage tapas, cucumber and tomato salad, some bread all for about 9 euro.

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Taberna las Comedias was a convenient stopping place as we busily walked the streets of Cordoba. We had no recomendations about here, it just looked "different", not quite so touristy as many of the other places in the old city. The service was VERY slow, but they did have a menu in English, which was unusual. This place is a series of interconnecting rooms, apparently they took several old homes and put doorways through from room to room...it was very noisy and I do mean NOISY.

Favorite Dish: We saw that they had Pallea, the local food that we wanted to sample and had not as yet so took a chance and ordered, Zohara took the chicken and I had the seafood. Sorry to say that, at least to our tastebuds, they were very poorly done. The seafood had almost NO seafood, only a few remnants and you COULD taste the rice......sampled Zohara's chicken and it was also not very tasty, it seems the chicken was not quite cooked....we did have an opportunity later in our trip to taste good Pallea so we did have something with which to compare. If you do end up in this restaurant, pass on the Pallea. Actually better yet, PASS on this restaurant, you have many more to choose from.

This restaurant has been in business since 1985 and holds the Guinness record for having the most extensive menu.
There are two locations in town. We went to the restaurant on Brillante. The word pizzaiolo means pizza maker. but don't let the name fool you into thinking it serves only pizzas. My wife had a pork tenderloin and I had a creamy seafood black and white pasta. The garden salad was enough for two persons. The servings were ample and priced right. The personnel was so gracious that we went back in a second night and got royal treatment again, which made our stay in Cordoba very memorable.

And for those of you who have to stay connected, they have free wi-fi connection en the cafeteria section.

Favorite Dish: I was in need of pasta, so I loved the pasta dishes. I must say that many of the plates available were traditional Spanish dishes. It was not exclusively Italian.

Great Tapas place just up from the Mesquita. The place was packed on a showery afternoon. The two guys were prompt and courteous in getting the orders out.

Favorite Dish: All the tapas were good. We had the ensalada rusa (potato salad), and some dynamite albondigas and gazpacho.

This little tapas bar outside the northwest corner of the Mezquita grounds is very unassuming. But once inside you might notice framed newspaper clippings that praise the homemade tortilla de espanola made here. In Spain, a tortilla is not the same as what one thinks of when one mentions tortilla. In Spain, a tortilla is more of a potato and egg pie, kind of like a quiche depending on what ingredients are included. However it is a bit heavier than a quiche. Bar Santos' version is more potato-y but it's a kind of stiff creamy texture. And I'm not sure what is in it but it is very tasty indeed. I believe one order was 2,50 euro and one is enough to fill you up along with a plate of chorizo and a nice tinto y limon.

The chap working the bar was very nice as were the locals who came in, all ordering a slice of the tortilla casera!

Favorite Dish: Tortilla de espanola

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Saturday, February 2, 2008
After visiting the Alcazar, we were all getting pretty hungry, so Carmen started looking for a place to eat and we decided upon CABERNA CASA BRAVO. It was a small, but busy little place with nice atmosphere. We ordered 2 portions of Pinchitos which are small spicy Spanish Kebabs, a full portion of carnes (6.50 Euros) which was a plate of cubed pork in a sauce, one full portion of Patatas Bravo (8.50 Euros) which is sliced potatoes with ham & cheese, and a small dish of Salmorejo (3.75 Euros) - ( Recipe in Local Customs). Total Bill came to 33.95 Euros for four people.