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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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Calle Betis

    A walk along the Triana bank at dusk to let the afternoon settle, the cathedral lit up across the water.

  4. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Freiduría La Isla

    A paper cone of fried adobo and boquerones, eaten standing with the market porters before the airport bus.

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