Seville Tapas Bars: Six Places for Different Meals

A tapa at a standing counter and a long dinner of small plates ask different things of your evening in Seville. Choose by the meal you want, not by a single ‘best’ bar: the six places below span the historic centre and Triana, with particular dishes worth seeking out at each.

Which tapas bar suits your meal?

Bar	Area	What to order	Typical spend per person	Weekly closure
El Rinconcillo	Calle Gerona	Spinach with chickpeas	€15–25	None
Casa Ricardo	Calle Hernán Cortés	Ham croquettes	€15–25	Monday
Bodega Santa Cruz (Las Columnas)	Santa Cruz	Spinach with chickpeas	€12–20	—
Bodeguita Romero	Calle Harinas	Pringá montadito	€12–20	Monday
La Brunilda	Calle Galera	Cod fritters with pear aioli	€20–35	None
Las Golondrinas, Antillano Campos	Triana	Grilled pork skewer	€15–25	—

For a short standing stop near the Cathedral, choose Bodega Santa Cruz (Las Columnas); for an old-fashioned counter further north, choose El Rinconcillo. La Brunilda suits a longer seated meal, while Las Golondrinas is the pork-skewer choice if you are already exploring Triana across the river. Casa Ricardo makes sense for croquettes and its Holy Week-filled interior; Bodeguita Romero is a central midday stop for a small meat-filled roll.

You can keep a counter stop spontaneous, but arrange ahead if you have your heart set on a particular seated dinner. If you want a more conventional sit-down meal instead of tapas, Seville restaurants for a longer dinner offer a different way to spend the evening.

El Rinconcillo

El Rinconcillo’s historic counter is the reason to come for a short traditional stop. Founded in 1670, the bar on Calle Gerona still serves tapas at that counter. Its spinach with chickpeas (espinacas con garbanzos) brings together a recognisably Sevillian vegetable-and-pulse tapa. Order it here if you would rather stand for a plate than settle into a lengthy dinner.

The bar opens daily from 13:00, so it can work for a late lunch even on a Monday. Come for a plate at the historic counter rather than planning a long seated dinner, and its Calle Gerona location also makes it a stop in the northern part of the old centre.

Casa Ricardo

Casa Ricardo is a place for ham croquettes and a room marked by Seville’s Holy Week. Established in 1985, the bar on Calle Hernán Cortés has photographs and religious memorabilia in its dining space. The croquettes come as a tapa or in larger servings, so choose a tapa if you want to add other dishes, or a larger serving when they are the point of the visit.

Its service splits between lunch and evening from Tuesday to Saturday. Sunday is lunch only, so make this a daytime stop if the weekend is ending. Leave Monday for another bar. The Holy Week pictures make the interior worth noticing as you eat, without needing to turn a croquette stop into an extended meal.

Bodega Santa Cruz (Las Columnas)

Bodega Santa Cruz (Las Columnas) is a standing-counter stop close to Seville Cathedral, not somewhere to plan a leisurely seated dinner. On Calle Rodrigo Caro, you can make spinach with chickpeas the focus of a brief visit, then carry on around Santa Cruz. This is a useful choice when you want a tapa between sights rather than a full evening built around food.

Order at the standing counter and eat there before continuing through Santa Cruz. There is no need to make this stop your whole meal. If your party wants a table and time over several plates, this is not the stop to build dinner around.

Bodeguita Romero

Bodeguita Romero is the central stop for a pringá montadito, a small bread roll filled with slow-cooked meat. The bar on Calle Harinas makes sense when you want something more substantial than a snack but do not want a long lunch. The pringá is the reason to pick this stop rather than simply looking for any tapas counter near the centre.

Make this a midday stop from Tuesday to Saturday, when lunch service fits a visit between central sights. Monday is a closing day. The montadito is a small roll rather than a full meal, so decide whether you want another plate before making this your only lunch stop.

La Brunilda

La Brunilda is for a seated meal of contemporary tapas, with cod fritters and pear aioli among its dishes. On Calle Galera, this is the place to choose when several plates and time at the table sound better than a single tapa at a crowded counter. The pear aioli gives the cod fritters a distinctive pairing rather than the usual plain accompaniment.

It serves both lunch and dinner every day, so choose the sitting that suits your plans and arrange a table ahead if this is the particular meal you want. Allow the visit to be a meal in its own right rather than trying to fit it between two rapid counter stops. Calle Galera runs through the western part of the old centre, a convenient location if your evening is already taking you towards the river.

Las Golondrinas

Las Golondrinas on Calle Antillano Campos is the Triana branch to seek out for a pork skewer. Its menu calls the dish a pinchito de cerdo, a grilled pork skewer. Naming the street matters here because Las Golondrinas has more than one location: use the Antillano Campos address when heading over the river from central Seville.

The Antillano Campos branch makes most sense as part of a visit to Triana. Keep the street name with the bar name when crossing the river from the old centre, so you head to the branch with the pork skewer you came for.

Sources & fact-checking

Checks against the sources below cover: opening hours and key figures.

• La Brunilda Tapas — opening hours
• La Brunilda Tapas — key figures
• Casa Ricardo — key figures
• El Rinconcillo — opening hours
• El Rinconcillo — key figures
• Las Golondrinas de Triana — key figures
• Bodeguita Romero — opening hours
• Bodeguita Romero — key figures