25 Friday Apr 2025
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The latest Bitesize Sevilla🍊 post on Substack includes a signature tapa, an origin story, a recipe and 10 great spots in Sevilla to try it. Have a look and give it a “like” (if you like it) and if you really like it maybe consider becoming a free or paid subscriber… Thx!
The Curious Tale of Sevilla’s Solomillo al Whisky
(spoiler alert: there’s no whisky!)
21 Monday Apr 2025
It’s been a busy – and filling! – week of serious solomillo al whisky research. All for the next Bitesize Sevilla newsletter on Substack, which should be out on Friday. Not only have I been revisiting bars to make sure my info was up to date, I have even been making the dish at home. It’s actually one of my favourite tapas but it may be a while before I want to order one again. 😅
11 Tuesday May 2021
Posted in sevilla, spain, tapas, tapas bars
Well this made my day! Yesterday I met up with Peter after running a couple of errands as we wanted to visit the new location of a fabulous local cheese shop. We started going down Sierpes and Peter said, “let’s take Cuna”, so that’s what we did. And a good thing too because when we almost reached the end of the street I suddenly I heard someone say: “¡Mira! Es la más bonita y más buena de Sevilla!”
And this masked man walks up to me, saying, “you don’t recognise me, do you?”. And I kind of did, but I also didn’t and struggled to recall until he finally said, “It’s me, Eme!”. And oh, how stupid did I feel for not recognising him. Because I adore Eme, but to be fair, he had the mask on and – most importantly – wasn’t standing behind his bar.
In March 2020 I wrote a sad update on Bar Casa Eme’s page on Sevilla Tapas announcing that after 25 years Eme had closed the doors on his bar for good. And I haven’t seen him since, though I had been trying to get in touch with him for his famous solomillo al whisky recipe (hands down the best in Sevilla). Turned out the phone number I had for him wasn’t actually his.
casa azahar 