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Salmorejo, topped with chopped egg and jamón — thicker than gazpacho, and a Córdoba dish rather than a general Andalusian one.
COLD SOUP, FRIED THINGS, FORTIFIED WINE

Food & Drink

What Córdoba actually eats, and why so much of it is served cold.

Tirithel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

The dishes worth knowing

Salmorejo is the one. Thicker than gazpacho, made with bread, tomato, garlic and oil, served cold and topped with egg and jamón. It is a Córdoba dish rather than a general Andalusian one and it is on every menu here.

Flamenquín — pork rolled around ham, breaded and fried — and rabo de toro, oxtail stewed until it falls apart, are the other two the city is known for. ⚠️ Rabo de toro is heavy and is not a summer lunch.

Berenjenas con miel, fried aubergine with cane honey, appears everywhere and is the best cheap thing on most menus.

The wine

Córdoba province makes Montilla-Moriles, fortified wines in the same family as sherry but made a short drive south. The dry styles are poured cold and are the local answer to the heat.

Where

⭐ Mercado Victoria puts a range of it under one roof with no booking. The Corredera arcade is where people who live here sit. ⚠️ The lanes immediately around the Mezquita are the most expensive and least interesting food in the city.

Rabo de toro: oxtail stewed until it falls off the bone, with fried potatoes.
Rabo de toro: oxtail stewed until it falls off the bone, with fried potatoes.Draceane, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Flamenquín — pork rolled around ham, breaded and fried, served by the length.
Flamenquín — pork rolled around ham, breaded and fried, served by the length.Draceane, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Berenjenas con miel: aubergine fried crisp and poured with cane syrup.
Berenjenas con miel: aubergine fried crisp and poured with cane syrup.Timo Tijhof, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Jamón from Los Pedroches, the dehesa in the north of the province.
Jamón from Los Pedroches, the dehesa in the north of the province.Feranza, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
A counter in the Mercado Victoria, where a range of it sits under one roof.
A counter in the Mercado Victoria, where a range of it sits under one roof.Mercado Victoria, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

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