14 editor picks in Córdoba.
14 upscale places in Córdoba, editor-picked. occasion restaurants in Córdoba: destination kitchens for celebrations and visits. All Córdoba food.
La Cuchara de San Lorenzo is the spoon-food room in Córdoba's San Lorenzo, thirty covers of artichokes with jamón, grilled tuna and braised rabo de toro.
OrderThe artichokes with jamón, then whatever stew is running that week.
TipThirty seats and two brothers running the room, so book rather than walking up on a Friday night.
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.
El Churrasco has grilled Iberian pork over oak charcoal on Calle Romero since 1970, its churrasco cordobés arriving with red and green Arab sauces.
OrderThe churrasco cordobés, grilled pork loin with the house red and green sauces.
TipThe house occupies a fourteenth-century Judería building; ask for a table around the patio rather than the front rooms.
Regadera sits on Córdoba's Ronda de Isasa with the Guadalquivir outside, Adrián Caballero cooking cordobés classics from a kitchen open to the room.
OrderThe salmorejo, then the flamenquín, both rebuilt rather than reinvented.
TipThe riverside tables go first at sunset, so ask for one when you book rather than on arrival.
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.
El Envero cooks contemporary seasonal food out on Calle Teruel with a wine list renewed as often as the menu, a locals' room away from the Judería.
OrderThe daily suggestions; the carta itself changes twice a year with the seasons.
TipIt sits in a residential quarter north of the centre, so pair it with an evening walk along the Vial Norte rather than the monument circuit.
Sojo Ribera runs latest of anywhere in Córdoba, a mixology room and river terrace on the Paseo de la Ribera that holds on until 04:00 at weekends.
OrderA house cocktail on the terrace before the room turns into a club.
TipClosed Sunday to Tuesday, and the summer schedule starts later than the winter one.
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.
Sojo Ribera runs latest of anywhere in Córdoba, a mixology room and river terrace on the Paseo de la Ribera that holds on until 04:00 at weekends.
OrderA house cocktail on the terrace before the room turns into a club.
TipClosed Sunday to Tuesday, and the summer schedule starts later than the winter one.
Puerta Sevilla fills a 200-year-old San Basilio house in Córdoba, five private rooms and a planted patio serving arroz del señorito and hake costrón.
OrderArroz del señorito, then the Texturas de Pedro Ximénez for dessert.
TipAsk for the patio rather than a salón; the upstairs rooms are handsome but the courtyard is the point.
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.
El Caballo Rojo cooks the Mozarabic register of Córdoba a few steps from the Mezquita, a tapas bar below and dining rooms above on Cardenal Herrero.
OrderWhatever leans Mozarabic on the day's carta; this kitchen built its name on that revival.
TipIt is steps from the Patio de los Naranjos, so book ahead for lunch; the bar takes walk-ins that the dining rooms cannot.
Sojo Ribera runs a mixology room and first-floor terrace over the Guadalquivir in Córdoba, facing the Roman Bridge and the Torre de la Calahorra.
OrderA house cocktail on the upstairs terrace at dusk.
TipThe published summer schedule is tighter than the winter one, and the room does not open Sunday to Tuesday.
The Balcón de Córdoba rooftop looks over the Judería in Córdoba from a former Encarnación convent, pouring wine and cocktails beside local tapas.
OrderA copa of Montilla-Moriles with the tapas selection, taken on the roof.
TipThe terrace closes at 20:00, so this is a late-afternoon drink rather than an evening one.
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