€€€€Street foodJuderia
Bar Santos sells wedges cut from a thirty-egg tortilla de patatas in Córdoba, eaten standing on the Mezquita wall across the street since 1966.
OrderOne cuña of tortilla, around €2, and a caña to go with it.
TipThere is nowhere to sit; the wall of the Mezquita opposite is the dining room and always has been.
€€€€Street foodCentro
La Salmoreteca is the salmorejo stall inside the Mercado Victoria in Córdoba, running about a dozen versions off a book that catalogues 675 of them.
OrderThe classic salmorejo first, then one of the odd ones like beetroot or squid ink.
TipChef Juanjo Ruiz rewrites the stall's dozen salmorejos by season, so the odd flavours rotate.
€€€€Street foodCentro
Crazy Potato bakes potatoes to order at the Mercado Victoria in Córdoba and loads them with local produce, one of the cheapest plates in the hall.
OrderA baked potato with whichever garnish the counter is pushing that day.
TipOrder here and eat at a shared market table; the stall itself has no seating of its own.
€€€€Street foodCorredera
Caracoles La Magdalena has sold snails from a stand on its Córdoba plaza since 1965, opening on Andalusia Day and closing again by late May.
OrderA cup of chicos, the small snails in their mint broth.
TipThe season runs from 28 February to roughly the end of May, so most of the year there is no stall at all.
€€€€Street foodJuderia
Mojaelchurro fries organic churros and sopaipas a street from the Mezquita in Córdoba, opening at 07:30 and shutting the fryer again at 13:00.
OrderSopaipas, the flatter Andalusian fried dough that most visitors never order.
TipMornings only. If you plan a churro stop for the afternoon here you will find the shutters down.
€€€€Street foodCentro
Churros Bar Marta works the Cruz Conde shopping spine in Córdoba, a plain city-centre counter frying churros from 08:00 straight through to 20:30.
OrderChurros with the thick chocolate, taken standing at the bar.
TipUnlike most Córdoba churrerías it runs all day rather than closing after the morning trade.
€€€€Street foodSan Andres
Churrería Arroyo de San Andrés fries jeringos in a residential Córdoba barrio, open from 08:00 and finished by early afternoon six days a week.
OrderJeringos, the thick looped Córdoba churro, with chocolate.
TipClosed Mondays and shut by 14:00, which is why the Judería crowds never find it.
€€€€Street foodSan Basilio
Churrería Santos Mártires works a kiosk facing the Alcázar in Córdoba and trades in a four-and-a-half-hour window before packing up at midday.
OrderChurros and chocolate, eaten on a bench facing the Alcázar walls.
TipThe window is 07:30 to 12:00 flat, so this is a stop before the Alcázar rather than after it.
€€€€Street foodCentro
Churrería Victoria fries jeringos near the Jardines de la Victoria in Córdoba, one of the few counters that reopens for the afternoon merienda.
OrderJeringos with chocolate, and homemade crisps if they are out.
TipWeekends are mornings only; the 17:00 merienda service runs Monday to Friday alone.
€€€€Street foodCorredera
Caracoles La Magdalena has sold snails from the same Córdoba plaza since 1965, under a fourth generation of the same family, for one season a year.
TipThe season opens on 28 February and closes in late May, and the stall vanishes entirely between times.
€€€€Street foodSan Andres
Churrería Arroyo de San Andrés fries jeringos in a residential corner of Córdoba, shutting by early afternoon six days a week and closed on Mondays.
TipEverything is finished by 14:00, which is exactly why the Judería crowd never make it here.