Seville for The Food Pilgrims: a Friday-to-Monday weekend
Orange trees, bitter sweets, and a long slow dusk.
Eating is the itinerary. Breakfast where the porters eat, a market tour, the dish the city is known for in the place that does it best, and one serious dinner.
Friday: Orange wine and ham
- Mercado de Triana
Late afternoon the fish counters are closing but the bars inside are opening; a caña and a pile of camarones at the back counter.
- Taberna Álvaro Peregil
The bar that bottles its own vino de naranja, a glass at the 1904 counter under the Giralda, sweet and bitter like the city.
- Bar Las Teresas
Hams hung above the bar since 1870, a plate of jamón de bellota and a fino, the first serious thing to eat.
Saturday: Market, class and the serious dinner
- Mercado de Feria
The oldest market in the city, Saturday morning crowds, and La Cantina at the back frying the morning's fish from nine.
- Taller Andaluz de Cocina
Buy the ingredients at the stalls, then cook salmorejo, espinacas con garbanzos and a paella in the market's own kitchen; lunch included.
- Cañabota
The serious dinner: the day's fish shown whole at the counter, filleted and grilled before you, a star and no tablecloths.
Sunday: The dish done best
- Bar El Comercio
Churros and thick chocolate at the 1904 bar with the old men from the Salvador; the morning's argument about the city's dish begins here.
- El Rinconcillo
The 1670 bar's spinach with chickpeas and its bacalao, the city's dish done best, eaten at the bar with a sherry.
- Calle Betis
A walk along the Triana bank at dusk to let the afternoon settle, the cathedral lit up across the water.
- Casa Cuesta
A Triana dining room from 1880, tiled to the ceiling, with cola de toro and the house's own vermouth.
Monday: Bread, yemas and fried fish
- Confitería La Campana
A pastry shop and café on the corner of Sierpes, a tostada and a coffee at the bar the way Sevillanos do it. The pastries behind the glass are worth the extra euro.
- Convento de San Leandro
Ring the bell, order through the torno, and a nun you will never see turns the drum with a box of egg-yolk yemas.
- Freiduría La Isla
A paper cone of fried adobo and boquerones, eaten standing with the market porters before the airport bus.