![]() Creative and delicious pinchos such as avocado, apple and langoustine tartlet, prawn and bacon brochette. If the look is Barcelona (metal floor, purple chairs), the kitchen tends towards Bilbao. This brand-new designer tapas bar on the little square beside the main door of the Cathedral is a good place for a beer or a glass of wine and a tapa or two at midday. Try the aubergine slices, featherlight and piled into a delicate heap.īAR PASIEGAS Plaza de las Pasiegas (00 34 958 535 766). Seafood is a speciality, perfectly fried in a light batter. Famous for its superb tapas, which are slapped onto a zinc counter along with your glass of manzanilla or foaming Alhambra beer (the tasty local brew). As in all good Granada bars, a free aperitivo is offered with your drink.īAR DIAMANTES Calle Navas 26 (00 34 958 227 070). ![]() An ancient tavern serving good tapas such as Trevelez hams from the Alpujarras mountains, and cheeses. The classic choice around the Plaza Nueva. Book ahead.īODEGAS CASTANEDA Calle de Almireceros 1 (00 34 958 215 464). The food ( pisto - the Spanish ratatouille - baby lamb chops, tortilla Sacromonte) is plain, authentic, hearty and good value. It's a one-room dining room with a few tables, terracotta plates and tooth-mug glasses. Down-home eating house in the heart of Sacromonte, an eccentric neighbourhood where much of the population (mostly gypsies and hippies) lives in caves. House specialities include aubergines with honey, chicken salad with cumin and endives, and stewed partridge with chestnuts.ĬASA JUANILLO Camino del Sacromonte 83 (00 34 958 223 094). 'Traditional granadino and andalusí cuisine' is the order of the day at this fascinating restaurant, which has won various awards for its novel interpretation of Hispano-Arabic fusion cooking. The menu is classically granadino (try the habitas con jamón, baby broad beans with ham, the regional dish par excellence).ĬOLINA DE ALMANZORA Calle Santa Ana 16 (00 34 958 229 516). Seventy years on, its dining room remains essentially unchanged. The Sevilla was founded in 1930 and became a favourite haunt of Lorca, de Falla and their artistic friends. RESTAURANTE SEVILLA Calle Oficios 12 (00 34 958 221 223). Feast on cardoons with an almond sauce, baby broad beans with ham and a fantastic cured sheep's cheese flavoured with rosemary. Tables are set out on various terraces and food hovers between traditional granadino cooking and the pre-Christian culinary heritage. The first and best of the carmén-restaurants, now so much in vogue (the carmén represents the grandest sort of Albaicín house). MIRADOR DE MORAYMA Calle del Pianista Garcia Carrillo 2. £Ĭuesta Aceituneros 6 (00 34 958 215 260 This hotel is another fine Moorish restoration at the posh end of the Albaicín, close to the Plaza Nueva. There are fabulous views from the terrace. Peña Partida 2-4 (00 34 958 221 468 First opened in 1910, this faux-Moorish palace is still a good luxury option - especially for connoisseurs of full-on Orientalist kitsch.
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