Rabo de toro is a signature dish of Spain; we have verified places to eat it in Córdoba. Oxtail browned hard, then braised for hours with onion, carrot, tomato and a bottle of Montilla-Moriles until the meat slips off the bone. Start with where to eat Rabo de toro in Córdoba.
Rabo de toro · Córdoba
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.
Where to eat in Córdoba:
- Bodegas Campos
- Taberna Salinas
- Casa Pepe de la Judería
- Taberna Góngora
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