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Oxtail browned hard, then braised for hours with onion, carrot, tomato and a bottle of Montilla-Moriles until the meat slips off the bone. Served with the sauce reduced to a gloss and a pile of fried potatoes.
Rabo de toro is Córdoba's bullring dish, cooked from the tail of the animal after the fight and slow-braised because there is no other way to eat it. The city has kept it on tabernas cartas continuously; Bodegas Campos, open since 1908, has served it for more than a century. Andalusian versions differ mainly in the wine: Córdoba uses Montilla-Moriles, which is drier and more oxidative than the reds used further north, and gives the sauce its particular nutty edge. Today most oxtail sold in the city is beef rather than fighting bull, which is legal, normal and rarely mentioned on the menu.
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Taberna Salinas has run off Córdoba's Corredera since 1924, an azulejo bar backed by wine casks and a patio full of plants and old paintings.
OrderThe salmorejo, the version most cordobeses measure the others against.
TipIt shuts on Sunday and does no dinner on Saturday, which trips up weekend visitors constantly.
Bodegas Campos has poured in Córdoba since 1908, a warren of patios and barrel-signed rooms off Calle Lineros serving rabo de toro and salmorejo.
OrderRabo de toro, the dish the house has cooked for over a century.
TipAsk to walk through the barrel rooms before you sit; the signed butts are a century of visiting names.
Casa Pepe de la Judería has fed Córdoba since 1928, a taberna downstairs and a roof terrace upstairs that looks straight at the Mezquita tower.
OrderMazamorra, the almond-and-bread ancestor of salmorejo.
TipThe roof terrace is the reason to come, so ask for it when you book rather than taking a ground-floor table.
Taberna Góngora is the family taberna on Conde de Torres Cabrera in Córdoba, adapting most of its carta for coeliacs on a separate chickpea-flour fryer.
OrderRabo de toro, then boquerones, both at taberna prices.
TipIt closes Tuesday and Sunday, an awkward pair that catches out anyone planning a long weekend.
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