The enthusiasm aroused by the openings in Seville, gradually increasing the list of pending restaurants of its neighbors and foreigners, is directly proportional to the regret of those temples that close or those that we never get to try. Thus, at a time when hamburger restaurants are proliferating, we regret not being able to take those of Dulio, the old chain of hamburger restaurants in Seville. We recover its history in the following lines.
Juan Rodríguez Rodríguez, a Galician living in Seville, opened his first restaurant in Seville, called ‘Las Navas’.
It was located in the vicinity of San Pablo street, by Magdalena. After some time it closed and a second business followed, Viana (at number 8 Velázquez).
What was the Dulio hamburger restaurant like?
His second venture consisted of a self-service buffet with bingo included on the second floor. A concept that soon became popular. It was Enrique Graciano and Juan who followed their father’s entrepreneurial example and created Dulio.
In Paseo de Cristina, behind the passageway that leads to Almirante Lobo, this hamburger restaurant, a Seville trademark, boasted the aesthetics of the time, with basketball-related influences included in its appearance and menu.
A space that would be a success in the eighties and nineties. So much so that a Facebook page was even created called ‘I also ate a Dulio’.
Dulio expanded in a prophetic way, as if anticipating the flood of hamburger restaurants that only a couple of decades later would populate the city. It had premises in Salado Street, in the vicinity of the current Corte Inglés in Nervión and even in Gines.
Others joined the myriad of Dulio establishments: on Sagasta Street, in a passageway in Sierpes and in the Cartuja.
The last Dulio restaurant withstood the onslaught of the big fast food companies until 1999, when Editorial Planeta acquired the property of the current Casa del Libro.