A working Fernandine-church barrio in the northeast where La Cuchara de San Lorenzo turned a residential corner into one of the city's most booked dining rooms.
La Cuchara de San Lorenzo is the spoon-food room in Córdoba's San Lorenzo, thirty covers of artichokes with jamón, grilled tuna and braised rabo de toro.
Signature: Alcachofas con jamón, Atún a la plancha, Rabo de toro
Order: The artichokes with jamón, then whatever stew is running that week.
Tip: Thirty seats and two brothers running the room, so book rather than walking up on a Friday night.
Taberna Casa Luis faces the rose window of San Lorenzo in Córdoba, a neighbourhood room built on pescaíto frito, callos and other home-kitchen plates.
Try: Pescaíto frito
Order: Pescaíto frito, the plate the barrio has always come here to eat.
Tip: No hours are published anywhere, so treat an evening visit as a gamble unless you phone first.