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Tapas tour details
To see current prices for each rate (adults, students, children and infants), select your preferred date in the booking calendar. The price shown in the calendar is always the final price.
The tour runs on a few evenings a week. Select your date in the booking calendar to see the time for that day.
Bookings close ten hours before the start time.
The group meets in the old town, on the city side of the river, and crosses into Triana together.
C. Arfe 3, Casco Antiguo, 41001 Seville · View on Google Maps
Please arrive a few minutes early, so that the whole group can set off together.
Four tapas and three drinks, eaten standing up in different traditional bars along the way.
A guided walk through Triana with a guide who specialises in food, from Calle Betis to the Plaza de Santa Ana.
Come hungry. Four tapas and three drinks over three hours is a dinner, not a snack.
If you have an allergy or something you do not eat, write it in the comments box of the booking form: what you put there reaches the organiser before the day.
Alcohol is not served to anyone under eighteen.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
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Four bars, four tapas, and the reason Seville eats standing up
Tapas are not a menu category in Seville, they are how the city eats: small, standing, several places in an evening, moving on before you have finished talking. This tour does it the local way, in Triana, with a guide whose subject is the food rather than the architecture.
From Calle Betis to Santa Ana
The route runs from the riverside at Calle Betis to the Plaza de Santa Ana, through the oldest part of Triana, stopping at the bars that were here long before anybody thought of putting them on a list. Four tapas, three drinks, at different places — because ordering everything in one bar is the one thing no Sevillian would do.
What you are likely to eat
That depends on the bar and the season, which is the point. Between them the stops cover the range: something fried, something cured, something cooked slowly, and something cold if the weather calls for it. Your guide orders, explains what has arrived, and answers whatever you ask — recipes included.
And the part that is not food
Three hours is long enough to learn where the custom came from, why it survived here when it faded elsewhere, and how Triana in particular came to be the quarter people cross the river for. The walking between bars is the lesson.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About three hours, including the walking between bars.
At C. Arfe 3, in the old town on the city side of the river. The group crosses into Triana together.
Four tapas and three drinks, at different bars. It is a dinner rather than a tasting: come hungry.
Write it in the comments box when you book, and it reaches the organiser before the day. Be aware that traditional Sevillian bars lean heavily on fish and cured pork, so the more notice there is, the better the chances of a good alternative.
Say so in the comments box when you book. Alcohol is not served to anyone under eighteen in any case.
Spanish, English, French or Italian. You choose on the booking form.
Yes, and there is a reduced rate. It is three hours in the evening, standing up in bars, which suits some children and not others.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Planning your evening of tapas
Practical questions about eating in Seville, useful background before you travel.
A small plate meant to be eaten with a drink, standing at a bar, before you move on. In Seville the portion sizes run tapa, media ración and ración, from small to shareable, and a bar crawl of four tapas is a normal way to have dinner.
Late. Bars fill from nine in the evening and stay full past eleven. Lunchtime tapas exist too, around two, but the evening is when the custom is at its best.
Whatever is chalked on the board rather than printed on the menu, and whatever the person next to you is having. Salmorejo in summer, spinach with chickpeas any time, and fried fish everywhere.
Because the bars there are still mostly neighbourhood bars. The centre has good ones, but it also has a great many aimed squarely at visitors, and telling them apart takes local knowledge, which is what you are buying.
Not as a rule, and never a percentage. Rounding up, or leaving the small change from the bill, is normal and plenty.
