Just updated my About Sevilla Page.
As people often ask me about Sevilla I’ve started a page containing information and also various links to interesting websites, articles, etc.
And I’ve added a subpage for tapa bars & restaurants, with personal mini reviews.
Any comments, queries or suggestions can be left here. 
casa azahar 
I’ve been racking my increasingly raddled brain (you’ve noticed?!) to recall the amusingly named Sevillan square I saw mentioned in a travel restaurant feature.
I know!…Name some squares and I’ll tell you which one is amusing!
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Oh good – starting off with an easy one.
Any way to narrow this down a bit, as in, what you might consider amusing?
Or maybe what it reminded you of?
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Was it amusing in the original Spanish, or only when translated into English? A “good” translation can often add a great deal to the amusement factor.
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It was a Spanish name which sounded like the name of someone famous in English.
I’ve been trying to find it on the www, to no avail. It was in a Weekend Grauniad sometime around the new year about the best value bars to eat in in Europe. I can’t find it online, though.
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Venerables?
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I’ve got a question! I see so many of those lovely little balconies off the tall windows on apartment buildings.
I also notice that a lot of them have wrought iron “cages” framing the windows. Is it to keep bats, birds, or burglars out, or to keep the occupants in? 😉
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Yeah, having bars on windows isn’t something I ever saw in England or Canada. In fact, I can’t even remember seeing them so much when I lived in Salamanca. Perhaps it’s because it gets so hot here that people tend to sleep with their windows open, which is a pretty good way to get robbed.
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That view of rooftops makes me miss the smell of clothes dried in the Sevilla sun. 😉
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Have you checked out the tapa bars & restaurants page yet, zoomer? Should be a few nice memories for you there – also a couple of your photos (radish bar/oldest bar).
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Today Nog & I went out to a new place for lunch – well, new for us. An Argentinian grill. Photos are here (photos 76-80) and the write up is on the tapa bars & restaurants page.
It was really good. 🙂
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OOh, that looked really good, az! (And I didn’t spot any “chee” on the plate — trust me, you don’t want to know.)
you should be a food travel writer — you take good photos of the food (and that is *not* an easy thing to do, according to one of my friends, who’s a food stylist!), and your descriptions are good. Just saying. 🙂
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Might help to mention that “that looked good” referred to the photo from the Argentinian bar :blush: .
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‘Ere! You forgot to mention that Las Columnas does the best gazpacho in town!
And what about the ice-cream place – the name of which escapes me, but it does do the best ice cream ever.;-)
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Are you confusing Las Columnas with Bar Campanario, Blues? Easy enough to do after a few pitchers of sangria … 😉
The ice cream place is called Rayas. They’ve opened a second location not far from here –
I’ll go take some photos this weekend.
SC, the Argentinian place moved a couple of weeks after we were there – I still haven’t found their new address.
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*ahem*
Whilst I know we still hold the all-in Sevilla Sangria drinking record at Bar Campanario (and frankly probably will do until a rugby tour comes to the city :-D), I do not confuse the two.
Tortilla and gazpacho was pretty much my favoured lunch during our stay, and often at Las Columnas before we retired for the siesta. The gazpacho at Las Columnas was definitely my favourite, though I seem to recall that Las Teresas does a pretty good gazpacho as well.
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So you never tried the gazpacho at Campanario? Maria Paz insisted that zoomer have some when he was here last summer so I also tried a bit. It was amazing (and I don’t even like gazpacho). But this stuff was so thick and ‘creamy’ and garlicky … almost like a salmarejo.
Yeah, those mini tortillas at Las Columnas are quite good, as is their spinach with garbanzos. I’ll have to get some food shots there soon and also one of Manolo (who is now a proud father, btw).
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Today on the azahar’s sevilla page I added a link to my neighbour’s website that offers lovely holiday apartments in the Barrio Santa Cruz. If you’re staying for a few days an apartment is much more comfortable – and usually cheaper – than a hotel.
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