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crazy clutter

19 Sunday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in culture, retail therapy, sevilla, spain

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culture, hardware, kitchen, sevilla, seville, shops, tradional

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Don’t you just love old shops like this? I’ve been going to Bazar Victoria ever since I first moved to Sevilla, which used to be a challenge because most things are “in the back” somewhere and have to be asked for. I think the staff quite enjoyed my miming and bad Spanish whilst trying to get across what I wanted. These days I am more likely to see some cool kitchen gagdet in the window and have to get them to explain what it’s used for, which is also fun. Though I can never tell when Amalio is being serious so I’m still not convinced that the cricket cages are for real…

Do you have a favourite old shop like this where you live?

[more about Bizare Victoria on azahar’s Sevilla blog]

la cartuja

09 Thursday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in photos, sevilla

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cartuja, expo92, pavillions, sevilla, seville

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One of the bonuses of getting yesterday’s PET scan done out in the Cartuja is that afterwards María Paz and I decided to walk back to the centre and had a great time discovering some quite nice “relics” from the 1992 EXPO. It’s mostly quite ghost-townish out there, with most of the old pavillions taken over as office space. But as you can see, it was a beautiful blue sunshiny day and this is some of what we saw.

pigging out in style

07 Tuesday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in food & drink, restaurants, sevilla, tapas, twitter, wine, work

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iberian pork, sevilla, seville, spain, tapas


One of the perks of having run the Sevilla Tapas blog for almost five years now is that I occasionally get invitations to interesting (usually food-related) events. What’s also interesting is that – as a blogger – I am getting acknowledged as “press” and even – gasp! – as a writer.

Yesterday I was invited to Restaurante Alcuza by gastronomy photographer Manolo Manosalbas, to preview their “Iberian Pork Days” menu, which will be available to the public starting today until March 3rd. Everything from starters to dessert featured cerdo Ibérico de bellota, the best of the best, made from acorn-fed blackfoot free-range pigs.


I have to admit that I wasn’t crazy about the ice-cream, but everything else was sensational and was perfectly accompanied by wines from Bodegas Torres. After six tapas I was quite happily stuffed! I was also glad to have a chance to revisit Alcuza as I had first gone there almost two years ago but hadn’t been back. Question of too many tapas bars, too little time and money. But I will definitely be back to Alcuza again soon.

Looks good, doesn’t it?

just another day…

04 Saturday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in food & drink, friends, restaurants, retail therapy, sevilla, spain, wine, work

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friends, restaurants, sevilla, seville, shops, tapas bars

Yesterday started off as usual, though I was a bit miffed at having to miss the gym due to a late morning meeting. But the meeting went well and after a late lunch at home I thought I’d stay in and get some work done. I recently got commissioned to write a short piece for a very prestigious travel mag and wanted to get a good start on that. But I had a couple of other things on my to-do list and thought I’d get those out of the way first, and so I popped over to take a wine photo for one of my social media clients and then planned to pick up a new dish draining rack on the way home and get back to work. But first…

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me and da boyz

01 Wednesday Feb 2012

Posted by azahar in food & drink, friends, internet, restaurants, sevilla, social media, wine, work

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food, la azotea, sevilla, tapas, work


Don’t you wish all your evenings could end like this…?

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