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AndalusianSanta Marina
Taberna Regina opened on its small Córdoba plaza in 1904 and still serves albóndigas de la abuela and a flamenquín stuffed with rabo de toro.
OrderAlbóndigas de la abuela, then the rabo de toro flamenquín.
TipIt shuts Monday and Tuesday and serves dinner on Friday and Saturday only, so a midweek evening walk-in finds the door closed.
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AndalusianSan Lorenzo
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.
OrderPescaíto frito, the plate the barrio has always come here to eat.
TipNo hours are published anywhere, so treat an evening visit as a gamble unless you phone first.
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AndalusianCentro
Taberna La Montillana has run beside San Miguel in Córdoba since 1948 and is one of the very few kitchens in the city still serving mazamorra.
OrderMazamorra, the white almond soup that came before salmorejo.
TipThe operator writes its closing time as until close rather than a clock hour, so late arrivals are a gamble.
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AndalusianJuderia
Taberna El Abanico is the small flower-hung tapas room on Velázquez Bosco in Córdoba, a few metres north of the Mezquita and open seven days a week.
OrderAsk the counter what came in that morning; the carta is short and changes.
TipThe operator runs three sites; Velázquez Bosco 7 is the original Mezquita branch, not the Ribera one.
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AndalusianSan Basilio
Taberna La Viuda runs more than thirty tapas and raciones in San Basilio in Córdoba, including a flamenquín stuffed with cheese rather than ham.
OrderThe flamenquín de queso, the house rewrite of the city's fried classic.
TipIt opens all seven days with a full split service, rare in a barrio where most rooms take a day off.
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AndalusianCorredera
Taberna Salinas serves salmorejo, flamenquín and fried aubergine off Córdoba's Corredera, in a barrel-lined room the Salinas family took on in 1924.
OrderSalmorejo, then flamenquines de jamón serrano.
TipAn earlier tavern stood here from 1879; the Salinas family business itself dates from 1924.