Gastronomy | We Love Tapas

It’s all about the Pig

WeLoveTapas — Mon, 15 May 2017 07:46:08 +0000

As anyone who has been to Spain will already know, when it comes to food the pig holds a special place of affection in the hearts of the Spanish (if you can excuse a rather mixed metaphor). No one knows exactly how long this love affair has been going on, but it's thought that domesticated […]

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Tío Pepe en Rama 2016

WeLoveTapas — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:41:58 +0000

This year's Bodegas Gonzales Byass tasting event for Tío Pepe en Rama 2016 was held on April 11th (lunes del pescaíto), at the Mercado del Barranco on Seville's riverside. Although we weren't too lucky with the weather, with the wind even knocking over a few glasses, master blender (and winemaker poet) Antonio Flores led us […]

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Seville | Calvisius Caviar Tasting at Sea Market

WeLoveTapas — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:32:03 +0000

We Love Tapas had the opportunity for a visit to the recently opened Sea Market restaurant in the Avenida Eduardo Dato in Seville. We had been invited to attend a tasting of one of the most highly regarded, but possibly least known products of the sea - caviar. The tasting was hosted by Calvisius Caviar, […]

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Callejeando Food Fest in Sevilla

WeLoveTapas — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:37:43 +0000

What does foodie heaven look like? We bet it looks something like this… It all happened this past weekend in Seville and of course we were there, eating and drinking non stop! There were 19 different food trucks from all over Spain with their delicious creations. To start we tried out our own local food […]

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Sevilla | Abacerías

WeLoveTapas — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 06:00:34 +0000

Updated: July 1, 2016 You may notice, or may have already noticed, as you make your way from bar to bar in search of tapas and a drink, that the word abacería (often antigua abacería) appears in some of the names in a way that suggests a particular meaning. But what meaning? On closer inspection […]

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Day Trip to Córdoba

WeLoveTapas — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:54:10 +0000

Just an hour by train from either Sevilla or Malaga, Cordoba is one of a string of romantic Andalucian cities stretching across southern Spain. It was an important Roman city (you can still see, and walk across, the Roman bridge over the River Guadalquivir), but its glory days were in the 8th to 10th centuries, […]

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Tuna Almadraba

WeLoveTapas — Fri, 15 May 2015 07:04:47 +0000

The meat of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (also known as Red Tuna in Spain) has long been a prized item in the gastronomy of Spain and the western Mediterranean. These majestic fish, weighing up to 200 kg (and definitely not a small round fish that fits neatly into a tin), normally live in the cold […]

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Spanish Cold Soups

WeLoveTapas — Fri, 01 May 2015 07:09:00 +0000

Light, cool and refreshing in the hot summer weather, gazpacho, the cold tomato soup of southern Spain, is nowadays well-known all over the world. It's one of a family of tomato based cold soups that includes salmorejo and porra, as well as other local varieties, but the origins of these dishes actually goes back to before […]

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