Tapas in Sevilla

Sevilla is beautiful, really beautiful. It’s full of gorgeous buildings, pretty parks, street fountains and, also, home to more vegan tapas than one can usually reasonably expect!

At Calle Trajano 51, is the Cerveceria El Realito which boasts MORE options than patatas bravas & ensalada verde! A whole…two. Although, also, in Andalucia, you can usually get salmorejo, which I don’t remember there being. STILL! They had espinacas con garbanzos; spinach with chickpeas (GET IN), aguacate relleno; stuffed avocado & berenjena rellena a la miel; stuffed aubergines with honey. So, that last one, is not strictly vegan, but if a friend orders it, then the honey can be sponged off. The last time I had it, we ended up peeling off all the batter it was fried in anyway, but this time…

It came ‘stuffed’ with jamon y queso; ham and cheese. WOOP! So Lia ate it. It also came with chips though, so I had those. The other dishes were infinitely preferable.

Mmm, spinach and chickpeas. This was tasty and filling and drowning in oil. Numnumnum.

Avocado, stuffed with apple! They didn’t mention, when we asked what it was stuffed with, that it also came covered in a pink sauce with a prawn on top. We scraped that off and Lia ate the prawn. The apple was chopped into tiny pieces and mashed into the avocado (beneath the sauce) and tasted very fresh and clean.

Considering I’d thought I’d be living on chips and an apple from the supermarket that day, it was a huge and pleasant surprise to find interesting vegan tapas, which was both tasty and filling. I do usually find more options that I imagine there will be, but it still comes as a shock!

We also shared granizada limon which is crushed ice with lemon juice, and SO refreshing, for about €1,50 a pint. Yuuuum.