03 Wednesday Apr 2024
Posted in sevilla, tapas tours, work
These days I prefer to do lunchtime tapas tours for various reasons, mostly to do with my dodgy knee and being OLD now… by 8 pm all I want to do is cosy up in my PJs with Morcilla and watch TV. But sometimes I end up taking the “night shift” and am invariably rewarded by lovely scenes like this on my way home. Worth it. 🌙 💛
22 Friday Mar 2024
Posted in andalucia, gastro guias, sevilla, tapas, tapas tours
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Con el aumento del turismo en ciudades como Sevilla ha surgido una nueva figura que adentra al visitante en los entresijos gastronómicos locales. Se trata de guías gastronómicos, una vertiente de la profesión que no goza del reconocimiento y el aval que sí tienen sus compañeros especializados en patrimonio. Por ese motivo acaba de nacer la Asociación de Guías Gastronómicos de Andalucía, cuya intención es poner en valor el trabajo que cada día elaboran estos cicerones culinarios.
With the increase in tourism in cities like Seville, a new figure has emerged that takes visitors through our local gastronomic intricacies. These are the gastronomic guides, an aspect of the profession that does not enjoy the recognition and endorsement that its colleagues who specialise in heritage do have. For this reason, the Association of Gastronomic Guides of Andalusia has been created, whose intention is to highlight the work that these culinary experts do every day.
14 Thursday Dec 2023
Posted in sevilla, social media, spain, tapas, tapas bars, tapas tours, welcome
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Well… I say new. To be honest I’ve never actually had a proper logo for the Sevilla Tapas food tours, though I’ve used various orange-themed images over the years over all my messy websites. This was a team effort with my friend Paul who, back in August, also helped me turn my hot mess of websites into a manageable dishevelment. And so this week Paul fine-tuned the basic logo concept I came up with and then properly vectored it for me.
The “problem” I have with my “brand” is that I am both Azahar Sevilla and Sevilla Tapas and they are kind of one overlapping brand with different… um, thingys going on. But probably people know me more as Sevilla Tapas. So after I saw that jerkoff using Sevilla Tapas Tour on his social media I decided to take a stand and reboot Sevilla Tapas Tours, an account I set up years ago (2013) in case anyone tried to use my name. In hindsight I should have also set up Sevilla Tapas Tour but whatever. Anyhow I’m a bit in transition at the moment so you may see some changes coming up for 2024. At least I hope so!
29 Wednesday Nov 2023
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Yeah yeah… I know they say that imitation is a form of flattery, but I mean look at this fucker. New Instagram account basically calling his tours by the same name as mine. And it’s not like he doesn’t know me, or who I am. For the past year or so I have noticed this guy almost everywhere I go on my tapas tours. So not only copying my tours but also my name??
You’d think that if you were starting up a food tour company you would choose a distinct name so that it wouldn’t be confused with one that has been established for 15 years… oh wait. UNLESS THAT IS THE POINT. It’s actually a bit pathetic that he doesn’t want to build his brand on his own.
Anyhoodle… fuck him. Also, if you have to describe yourself as THE BEST (as he does on his website, in very poor English) then you clearly aren’t. I mean, this guy isn’t going to take away any business from me, but it irks that he thinks he can by appropriating my brand. Jerk.
14 Thursday Sep 2023
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The other day I took out a lovely couple, Jacquie and Dennis, on an evening tapas tour. Like many people they found me in Rick Steves guide book, so I mentioned that Rick had been here in May and that I had taken him out, then I showed them this photo (don’t peek yet) and Dennis said “He looks just like me with that beard!” (apparently Rick is usually clean shaven). And when Dennis found out he was sitting in the very same chair Rick had sat in at Salmedina he said “let’s recreate this photo!”. So we did. Can you tell which is the real Rick Steves?
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