los corales

19 Tuesday Mar 2019

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Los Corales has a long history in Sevilla, having started life as a small family run tapas bar off Calle Sierpes from 1932 to 1953. In 2010 Grupo La Raza decided to bring the essence of Los Corales back to Sevilla with this new location at the edge of Plaza Salvador. I was invited to try some dishes on the new menu by executive chef Antonio Bort, and – as you can see – it was a spectacular lunch.

Crab ensaladilla with crab roe mayo

Steak tartar

Lágrima peas with egg and truffle

Thai-style mussels with red curry sauce

Mushroom risotto with parmesan

Grilled Almadraba tuna parpartana with veggies

Grilled Argentinian beef with roasted potatoes

Chocolat with chocolate and chocolate

duncan

18 Monday Mar 2019

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Back in November 2010 I was invited by my friend Annie Bennett @anniebennett to join her for dinner at Gastromium. And it turned out to be one of the best meals of my life. Not only because the food was gorgeous, but the service was impeccable, with a lovely Scottish man called Duncan as our maître for the evening. It was such a memorable experience that I have kept the Gastromium post up on Sevilla Tapas, even after they sadly closed their doors and the three chefs moved on to other projects.

So imagine my surprise when I stopped for lunch at Tradevo Centro and one of the waiters said to me in perfect Spanish… hey, you have a website about tapas, don’t you? I told him my website was called Sevilla Tapas and has been going since 2007, and then he said he remembered me having dinner at Gastromium with a friend of mine. IT WAS DUNCAN. And well, we ended up having a nice chat and I thanked him again for having made that evening at Gastromium so memorable. Love when stuff like this happens.

spiraling down down down

15 Friday Mar 2019

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Since ALL my websites were hacked on Wednesday (well, in truth they were hacked ten days ago, but I just found about it Wednesday when HostGator blocked them) I have been in a state of spiraling down… so down… because I don’t know what the hell I can do. At first my friend David came to the rescue and found a couple of dodgy things that he removed, and then I got BH to “whitelist” my sites again. But the next day it was the same nightmare and I am now almost hysterical.

It looks like I have lost a lot of content already, especially photos, and I don’t know how to make things right. And of course each day my sites are offline, I am losing money as nobody can find my tours. I get mixed advice from each help source I ask, and I honestly don’t know what to do next. My site has been taken over and the hackers are using them to run other sites, thereby overusing the CPU. If I don’t get this fixed soon my server with permanently block me. HELP???