Also: Street Food in Cordoba
The fastest, cheapest, frequently best food on Córdoba's streets.
Vendors, food trucks and stalls: the cheapest, fastest, frequently best food in Córdoba.
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.
Try: Tortilla de patatas by the wedge
Order: One cuña of tortilla, around €2, and a caña to go with it.
Tip: There is nowhere to sit; the wall of the Mezquita opposite is the dining room and always has been.
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.
Try: Salmorejo, a dozen ways
Order: The classic salmorejo first, then one of the odd ones like beetroot or squid ink.
Tip: Chef Juanjo Ruiz rewrites the stall's dozen salmorejos by season, so the odd flavours rotate.
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.
Try: Baked potatoes with local toppings
Order: A baked potato with whichever garnish the counter is pushing that day.
Tip: Order here and eat at a shared market table; the stall itself has no seating of its own.
Bocaito Andalusí runs the Arabic counter inside the Mercado Victoria in Córdoba, hummus and falafel through to harira, mint teas and pastries.
Try: Hummus, falafel, tabulé and harira
Order: Falafel with hummus, the quickest Andalusi plate in the market.
Tip: It is listed as halal by the Cargest directory, though the stall does not carry the word itself.
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.
Try: Caracoles in mint broth
Order: A cup of chicos, the small snails in their mint broth.
Tip: The season runs from 28 February to roughly the end of May, so most of the year there is no stall at all.
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.
Try: Sopaipas and churros
Order: Sopaipas, the flatter Andalusian fried dough that most visitors never order.
Tip: Mornings only. If you plan a churro stop for the afternoon here you will find the shutters down.
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.
Try: Churros with thick chocolate
Order: Churros with the thick chocolate, taken standing at the bar.
Tip: Unlike most Córdoba churrerías it runs all day rather than closing after the morning trade.
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.
Try: Jeringos with chocolate
Order: Jeringos, the thick looped Córdoba churro, with chocolate.
Tip: Closed Mondays and shut by 14:00, which is why the Judería crowds never find it.
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.
Try: Churros with chocolate
Order: Churros and chocolate, eaten on a bench facing the Alcázar walls.
Tip: The window is 07:30 to 12:00 flat, so this is a stop before the Alcázar rather than after it.
Churrería Victoria fries jeringos near the Jardines de la Victoria in Córdoba, one of the few counters that reopens for the afternoon merienda.
Try: Jeringos with chocolate
Order: Jeringos with chocolate, and homemade crisps if they are out.
Tip: Weekends are mornings only; the 17:00 merienda service runs Monday to Friday alone.