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Seville | Alternative Markets

WeLoveTapas — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:17:59 +0000

Alternative shopping At this time of year with Christmas just around the corner Seville city centre is crowded with shoppers looking for the best presents they can find. But how can we make our loved ones happy while still supporting local businesses? Actually, there are plenty of options and we've come up with this little […]

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Jerez | Ruta de Tabancos

WeLoveTapas — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:35:47 +0000

Jerez de la Frontera is a short train ride away from Seville and is, of course, most famous for its local wine - sherry. While you are there you should not only visit one of the city's many bodegas, but also do at least part of the "Ruta de Tabancos". Tabancos are a type of […]

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Mushroom Season

WeLoveTapas — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 14:00:11 +0000

amanitas cesáreas Autumn is here, even in Spain, and among the things this season brings with it are wild mushrooms. Country people have always gathered mushrooms for the pot at this time of year, but in Spain in recent decades harvesting mushrooms has become a popular weekend pastime, taking advantage of the temperate weather to […]

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Sevilla | NO8DO

WeLoveTapas — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:03:04 +0000

As an observant visitor to our fair city of Seville, you may have noticed, on such diverse objects as lampposts, manhole covers, buildings and garbage trucks, among others, a little motif that seems to read NO8DO, except that the 8 is somewhat large, and often appears as if a little blurred. You may guess from […]

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Sherry 101

WeLoveTapas — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 14:13:30 +0000

Although there may be other “sherry style” wines, true sherries are those wines, and only those wines, produced in the area around Jerez de la Frontera in southwest Spain, or more specifically, those wines aged in the towns of Jerez, Puerto de Santa Maria, and Sanlúcar de Barrameda under the rules of the Consejo Regulador […]

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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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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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Sevilla | Vamos a la Feria!

WeLoveTapas — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:45:24 +0000

The Feria de Abril is Seville’s traditional spring fair and general celebration, and starts two weeks after Easter Monday (this year April 21 to 26), officially at midnight on Monday with the alumbrao, the switching on of the fairground lights, although in practice people may go to the fairground as early as the Saturday. Monday […]

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Recipe | Asparagus Tortilla

WeLoveTapas — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:53:46 +0000

We love cooking! And so we'll be sharing some of our favourite recipes for our favourite Spanish dishes here from time to time. As it is almost spring we thought we'd start with a spring-veggie twist on a Spanish classic - the tortilla de patatas. The important thing to know about making a great tortilla […]

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Postcards from Andalucía | Antequera

WeLoveTapas — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:43:31 +0000

We love Andalucia! And to start off our series of "postcards" from our travels around the most southern region of Spain - where we live! - we'd like to introduce you to one of our favourite places, Antequera. Andalucía is justly famous for its great classical and mediaeval cities – Seville, Málaga, Cádiz, Córdoba and […]

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