When diners swarm around Seville’ s abundant restaurants, logic urges: it’s time for a gastronomic getaway near Seville.
All of them are just an hour away (or less) and promise touches of creativity, terroir, care and respect for the profession and, in short, experiences that serve as an excuse to get away from the hustle and bustle.
They are not a mirage, this selection of restaurants appeal to pause, they are places of pilgrimage at the discretion of those who cook their food. Deep flavors, opulent banquets, gastronomic moments that you will not forget.
1. Lú Cuisine and Soul
Weighing the gastronomic and viticultural weight of Jerez results in a continuous need to return. To keep discovering wineries, tabancos and restaurants. Lú Cocina y Alma, awarded its second star last November, is one of those institutions.
An atavistic culinary experience, which roots the viands of the day laborers and the terroir of the house with the heritage of French techniques. Seasons that sublimate the goodness of this land.
From the flavor that communicates the technique of criaderas and soleras to its butter to its very high greased duck.
Two profuse tasting menus of the diner’s choice constitute this enlivening stroll for the palate.
A cast of unforgettable dishes and, we advance without hesitation, one of the best restaurants you can try so close to Seville that you will reach your table in the blink of an eye.
📍 c/ Zaragoza, 2 (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz)
🚘 92 kilometers (1 hour and 7 minutes).
2. Live Lime
Chef Leonardo Ramos runs the kitchen of Cal Viva, a restaurant in Morón de la Frontera that has been enlivening the local gastronomic scene since 2018. With an eye on the cuisine of proximity and the flavors of always, he harmonizes the manduca with a compendious reference of wines, in view of the diner.
The menu includes hot and cold tapas (Cal Viva’s octopus salad is one of the essentials), and chapters relating to the green universe, fish and meats without renouncing some spoon dishes.
For the rest, the place is very spacious and surrounded by greenery and proximity.
📍 c/ Gutemberg, 20 (Morón de la Frontera, Sevilla)
🚘 62 kilometers (50 minutes)
3. Lieva
Lieva is the return of chef Javi Abascal to the origins, to the rustic semblance, to lower the pace. It is also the launch of a project that drinks from his predilection as a chef: the goodness of the pasture.
You have to take the Ruta de la Plata road and go to Fuenteheridos, just 13 kilometers from Aracena, to find this imposing farm where you can taste the flavors of the mountains.
Abascal’s soul is not fragmented; in Lieva, as in Lalola, he once again uses the Iberian pig as the thread of this kind of retreat, making use of local foods.
Iberian cut starters, meats and spoon that ooze serranía, some marine options and desserts to culminate a tribute far from the urban limits.
📍 N-433 (Fuenteheridos, Huelva).
🚘 99 kilometers (1 hour and 17 minutes).
4. 12 tapas
The duo made by Túe García and Carolina Jurado is almost perfect, if there is such a thing. What we can confirm is that 12 tapas is a must stop, one of the best value for money restaurants in Seville.
How easy it is to be enveloped by the dishes of this restaurant in Castilleja de la Cuesta. The tasting menu they offer, one of the most adjusted of the Andalusian scene, is as tasty as fun.
Traditional recipes revisited, such as their puchero (stew), spinach stew? Or its fabulous Inés, whose name anticipates what it is: a toast topped with a foie lingote with shavings of palo cortao.
That is what you can expect from 12 tapas: stimulating bites and an easy-going and friendly service.
📍 c/ Párroco Antonio Pastor Portillo, 2 (Castilleja de la Cuesta, Sevilla).
🚘 9.3 kilometers (19 minutes)
5. Eternal
Chef José Luis Pastrana ventures with Eterno, a promising bet in San José de la Rinconada.
The flavors of his land are incorporated in each dish of the menu or in the tasting menu (condensed into 8 passes and elaborations of the chef’s choice with market products).
A great selection of Andalusian products supply this pantry that the diner will savor in slow-cooked stews and bread for dipping. Eterno condenses the spirit of the eating houses, the purity of the product and an interior design that conveys simplicity, whitewashing and the textures of the home.
For Pastrana, “eternal” evokes the memories of his mother’s house and it is that pinch that he transfers to his exciting recipe book.
A bollito preñado de yema de huevo, fritá de tomate y gamba blanca; judiones con langostinos or arroz a la piedra are among the gastronomic promises of this recently opened restaurant.
📍 Paseo de la Unión, 3
🚘 13 kilometers (20 minutes)
6. Ochando
Juan Carlos Ochando has marked Los Rosales on the gastronomic map in the vicinity of Seville. After a long journey through some of the most notable culinary houses in the country , he devoted himself to the noble task of elevating his land by opening this restaurant.
The menu offers sophisticated dishes that do not fail to connect with the roots. In addition, two tasting menus (52 and 75 €, respectively) that condense the spirit of Ochando.
An authentic and secluded restaurant just 40 minutes from the hustle and bustle of Seville. Glazed lamb sweetbreads, crispy tapioca or a fritter of pringá are some of the delicacies that one can take to the mouth of approaching this Bib Gourmand, also recommended by the Repsol Guide.
📍 Avenida Sevilla, 78 (Los Rosales, Seville).
🚘 43 kilometers (41 minutes)
7. Besana tapas
Haute cuisine but without fuss, tapas in bites that are not miniatures. Besana tapas is that stop between fine dining and traditional tapas. In other words: a donut but a carrillá donut, waffles that serve as bravas or a lamb pionono.
This refined little bar is located in the heart of Utrera and is well worth one (or several) visits.
The proposal is solid and the public flocking to the street lost child give good account of it.
📍 c/ Niño perdido, 1 (Utrera, Sevilla)
🚘 31 kilometers (37 minutes)
8. Barbara
The 12 tapas phenomenon expands its gastronomic repertoire in Bárbara (Castilleja de la Cuesta). A barecito in the Hotel Hacienda Santa Barbara where succulent breakfasts and tapas to share parade.
In the same line that in its forged first-born, here a second reading is made to the traditional dishes, giving them an added value and reasonableness as far as their prices are concerned.
📍 c/ Príncipe de Asturias, 48 (Castilleja de la Cuesta).
🚘 10 kilometers (20 minutes).