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Aubergine cut into batons or thin rounds, salted, floured and fried until the outside crackles, then finished at the table with a thread of dark cane syrup. Sweet against salt, hot against cold.
Aubergine came into Andalusia with the Arab kitchen and never left, and Córdoba fries it more than anywhere else in Spain. The syrup is miel de caña, a black sugarcane molasses produced on the Granada coast, and calling it honey is a translation error rather than a recipe: there are no bees involved. The pairing is a survival of the Andalusi taste for sweet against savoury in the same mouthful, the same instinct that puts cinnamon on meat and orange in salt cod salads. Every taberna in the city runs a version, and the differences come down to the cut of the aubergine and how long the salting step gets.
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Ermita de la Candelaria cooks inside a converted hermitage in Córdoba, almond-sauce meatballs and honeyed aubergine under a Sol from the Repsol guide.
OrderThe albóndigas in almond sauce, a direct descendant of the Andalusi kitchen.
TipThe building is a former chapel, so tables are few; book a midweek lunch if you want the easiest table.
Casa Rubio sits against the Puerta de Almodóvar gate in Córdoba, a 1920 taberna renamed in 1932 and now three floors deep with a wall-view terrace.
OrderBerenjenas con miel de caña, then the tortilla de rabo de toro.
TipIt closes Tuesday and Wednesday, which catches out visitors who assume a Judería taberna opens daily.
Taberna Coto has traded in Córdoba since 1972 and now sits on Plaza de San Miguel, serving lomo en manteca colorá that tourist kitchens have dropped.
OrderLomo en manteca colorá, then berenjenas con miel de caña.
TipIt publishes no hours anywhere and closes Tuesdays, so phone before you build a plan around it.
Casa Mazal cooks the Sefarad and Al-Andalus traditions inside a fourteenth-century Judería house in Córdoba, with no pork anywhere on the carta.
OrderWhatever the kitchen is running from the Sephardic side of the carta.
TipIt closes on Wednesdays, and bookings run through a dedicated reservations line rather than the main house phone.
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