In a city like Seville where churches have ceased to be reproduced to make way for the proliferation of gastronomic temples, it was to be expected that new consumption models ready to surprise the diner would be added to the offer. And in the illustrious art of clinging to the bars, Seville also has a lot to say.
From the classic ones with solera on which the orders are noted down to those where the cuisine is executed in front of the customer. The practice of eating on these landing strips will excite those who enjoy eating and observing.
We move away from the table to approach the effervescent experience of the chef, close to the stoves, to the live setting or from the pass. 13 essential bars to eat in Seville:
1. Barra Baja
An open kitchen or a bar where every bite is translucent could become a succession of clumsiness and at Barra Baja, however, freshness and precision reign.
Barra Baja is not one of my favorite restaurants just because it is. Rafa Liñán and Patricia Moliner may not be prophets of anything, but they still set a path that we would follow to the letter.
This infallible duo emanate the honesty and humility of those who perhaps know they are doing it wonderfully but with no other pretension than to give a good service.
The four hands of Seville is a spectacle. The kitchen in front of the diner (if you choose the bar wisely) is a continuous hoisting of tongs, blowtorch and small pots full of sauces. The dance is hypnotic; it tastes even better.
Is this your first time? Don’t miss the grilled oyster with sherry butter, the roasted leek with yolk, honey and portobellos vinaigrette or the brutal steak tartar.
📍 c/ Javier Lasso de la Vega, 14
2. Barrita brava from Sr. Cangrejo
Sr. Cangrejo is a very serious phenomenon in Seville, especially designed for enjoyment stomachs.
Expertise, proximity and a whole feast of flavors and pairings led by Jesús León and Fátima Villanueva in front of an infallible gear in the service.
In this secluded space of El Arenal you can breathe dynamism and good work and, although any location augurs a gastronomic triumph, to fit in its barrita brava is the ideal destination.
El Cangrejo is special. Excellent tapas that are far out of the ordinary; good pieces of fish that they will execute with mastery and innovation on each visit.
First time reader? Although their menu is changing, do not give up the anchovies and eggplant, any of their fish and desserts.
You have to trust, you have to hold on; 21 Harinas Street escapes any definition but always comes out well.
📍 c/ Harinas, 21
3. La casa del tigre
What it would be like to inhabit La casa del tigre is unknown to us. Enjoying its food, however, is a vibrant activity, anything but anodyne. For more than five years this restaurant has been providing a unique and delicious service in the heart of downtown, under the responsibility of chef Lucho Plaza.
A space with amazing stories and whose protagonist, the tiger, permeates every corner of the place. You can settle down in its baroque air room or in its oval bar; enjoy its menu or indulge in its recently incorporated tasting menu (one of the few in the city below 40 €).
📍 c / Amparo, 9 (local b)
4. Cañabota
Those who enjoy good seafood and fish know that there is no place in Seville where they are treated with more care than in Cañabota.
And you don’t have to be a lynx to intuit that enjoying the experience at the bar is almost a visual festival. Pieces that are displayed splendidly and anticipate a memorable meal. It is not surprising that, after years without novelties in the famed gastronomic guides, Cañabota achieved its first Michelin star in 2019.
📍 c/ José Gestoso with c/ Orfila, 19
5. Cañanota’s bar
If the diner prefers, its more affordable counterpart, the Cañabota bar, also lives up to its name and dispenses a long runway to yield to the viands of the sea.
📍 c/ Orfila, 5
6. Castizo bar
Chef Cristóbal Rosales is the architect of driving the kitchen of Castizo, a costumbrista and busy restaurant with a proposal of casual tapas and with a measured average ticket.
Salad with smoked sardine, its popularsalty mushroom tiramisu with parmesan foam and free-range egg, croquettes, fried food, traditional dishes and spoon dishes make up this menu for all appetites.
The space, traditional and intimate, has one of the funniest bars in the center of Seville, in front of a kitchen that works, in silence, at full throttle.
📍 c/ Zaragoza, 6
7. Casa Paco el buen comer
A few steps from the busy Luis Montoto, shopping malls, cinema and entertainment of this dynamic neighborhood, Casa Paco is still a stronghold of tradition, of that Seville that can look, at times, almost a village.
This gastronomic bastion of Nervión offers three concepts face to face: the dining room, a succinct terrace with a handful of high tables or its iconic bar, one of those in which it is worth crowding, requesting its classics and attending to its seductive off-menu items.
📍 c/ Luis Huidobro, 23
8. Becerrita
Since the late 1980s, Becerrita has been enlivening the Sevillian gastronomic tradition in Recaredo, halfway between Puerta Carmona and Puerta Osario.
The rooms of this restaurant are diverse. It has a succinct tapas room, intimate dining rooms for 2, 3 and 5 people and rooms capable of hosting large banquets behind closed doors. All in all, Becerrita’s bar is popular and it is also home to its classics.
Essential are the “ensaladilla” -a task that they excel here-, the oxtail croquettes, the majestic “Señor Marqués” and also the Wellington .
📍 c/ Recaredo, 9
9. Bodeguita Romero
Bars in the center of Seville exist like drumbeats at Easter and, despite all this, there are few classics capable of preserving their tradition, quality and prices adjusted to the neighbor.
Bodeguita Romero, under penalty of other opinions, maintains that malaje, that sanity. That parade of seductive tapas before the anxious gaze of those who sit next to the Carrefour waiting for their place at the bar or terrace.
One of the most popular corners of Seville is ideal to return to some pavías of cod, a mantecaíto to the whiskey or a montadito of pringá. Priceless.
📍 c/ Harinas, 10
10. Las Golondrinas
It is difficult to find a space especially during the weekend and despite the wait, Las Golondrinas is still a reason to celebrate. You have to head to Triana to fit into one of its two locals (the first of them treasures more than 60 years of history) and surrender to their tapas.
His are some of the most coveted bars in Seville, where you can try such famous dishes as his mushrooms stuffed with aioli.
📍 c/ Pagés del Corro, 76 | c/ Antillano Campos, 26
11. Kinu
KINU, embassy of Japanese gastronomy in Seville, is also one of the most beautiful restaurants in the city. One of those that, although they seem to hide, are revealed as an unusual experience.
It offers a juicy tasting menu or its sensational omakase bar, where the diner puts himself in the hands of Itamae.
A delicate setting that lends itself to the ceremonial, to savor with all the senses.
📍 c/ Miguel Mañara, 11
12. Chiquilla
Chiquilla emerges in El Arenal as a breath of fresh air and although its low tables and terrace are seductive, there is nothing like the dynamism of a bar.
Market cuisine of those who know how to give added value to a good product. They serve classic dishes, as well as more sophisticated proposals, a lot of sea, stews and succulent off-menu options.
📍 c/ Pastor y Landero, 21
13. La barra de Inchausti
Christening a restaurant with a bar gives a good account of what the diner will find. In this case, one of the most popular fish bars in Seville.
But there is more: a casual room and also a more refined lounge to procure good pieces of seafood, stews and seafood.
📍 c/ Tomás de Ibarra, 10
14. Ricca
Who said that the omakase experience was exclusively dedicated to Japanese gastronomy? Ricca, through its attractive bar, offers the customer a menu that changes every season around pizzas.
Italian product, flavor and spectacle of the hand of the master pizzaiolo in one of the most fun meals in Seville.
📍 c/ Dos de Mayo, 26