Looking for family friendly places in Granada Malaga and sevilla for a friend, family of 4. I went there about 10 years ago and have some notes but its always good to ask people on here for their current recs. Also any family friendly activities are also welcomed!
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@Hungryhungryhippos
I’ll be back later with ideas for Sevilla but for Granada you have the moderately priced Los Manueles with several branches and the seafood centric Los Diamantes, also with several branches, with the most seating in the Plaza Nueva branch, whivh has long hours. For churros and chocolate you have Alhambra on the Plaza Bib Rambla.
In Málaga for churros Casa Aranda. For moderstely priced meals with long hours, Casa Lola. Snd with lots of seating inside and terrace facing the Roman ruins, there’s the iconic El Pimpi, partly owned by Antonio Banderas. It’s a local institution.
Be back later…
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Back to “family friendly” Sevilla.
What I would avoid would be those places offering a tasting menu only, expensive gastronomic menus, those bars that are so very packed with locals (and tourists) that require the talent of bellying up to the bar, standing room only, getting the attention quickly of the very busy waiters and knowing how to order Spanish style
(to me that eliminates Casa Morales, the several Bodeguitas Antonio Romero, Las Teresas and Bodega Romero for a pringá plus Eslava), and those that provide no sit down dining, just very crowded standing at the bar. Local sevillano tikes often sit on to of the bar in Sevilla (often as late as midnight), but that´s an art form (we have plenty of photos to attest to that phenomenon). .
That said,
So given those parameters, with prior reservations,
families could go to La Azotea Vinos y Tapas on Mateos Gago (the “restaurant row” within steps of the cathedral). It’s very tourist friendly, menus in English, gets plenty of tourists, yet food is still solid.
Also in the Barrio Santa Cruz, there’s VinerĂa de San Telmo, which is family friendly, English speaking and offers a variety of moderately priced tapas.
And again, in the Barrio de Santa Cruz, there´s Bar Estrella, which offers table seating, is English speaking and offers a variety of small plates and is well priced.
The members of the Robles group, Robles Placentines and Casa Robles, both in the Barrio de Santa Cruz, haven plenty of sit down dining.
For churros and chocolate, the best is El Comercio. Get your churros to go or eat inside this very busy place.
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Thanks as always @Maribel! I was going to recommend them Elsava because we loved it last time. Funny story when first ordered at eslava the waiter told us it was way too much food and I told him not to worry, he kind of gave me a look. Then when we ordered a second round of food after that he looked at us like we had 4 eyes lol. He probably thought we were stereotypical greedy gluttonous Americans but I was just so enamored with their food I had to order everything!
I was also yelled at by a local business man for sitting at a bar at a restaurant and that this restaurant was not for tourists. I think it was bodega Santa Cruz but it was so long ago my memory escapes me. I asked him in Spanish if he was the owner of the restaurant and if he thought the restaurant liked tourist business, it was a very odd interaction lol. It was probably the only negative experience I’ve ever had with a local in Spain.
We definitely enjoyed diamantés on our last visit, I remember the churros fondly from the Alhambra also!
Thanks again for the input!
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