We arrived in Córdoba on a Saturday afternoon and our hosts, Mara de Miguel and Adrian Diaz, met us at 8pm for a tapas tour of Córdoba. The evening proved to be much more than tapas.
Our first stop was Bodegas Guzman. This bar opens at 8pm so we were some of their first customers and the place was virtually empty. That meant we were all able to sit at a table together to enjoy a glass of Fino with capers, Russian (potato) salad and chorizo.
The second stop on our tapas tour was Bodegas Mezquita for chicken tagine served with a Córdobesan drink called fifty-fifty (pronounced fiddy-fiddy). It is a mix of Fino and Pedro Ximénez sweet wines.
Next we went to a very Spanish bar called Los Mosquitos for a Córdobesan dish called flamenquín, a breaded and deep-fried roll of pork and ham. We also got the surprise of running into the cab driver (Ignacio) that drove some of us from the train station to the hotel five hours earlier. Turns out he is a friend of Adrian’s.
By the time we left Los Mosquitos, it was after 11pm, but we were not headed back to the hotel yet. Instead, we went to Corredera Square to catch and authentic, live Flamenco performance. Since it was the last night of the Patios Festival in Córdoba, the square was packed with people well past midnight.
