Bars & restaurants

Our recommendations here after represents where we go ourselves, at the moment of updating this page. It changes often because owners change, chefs change so quality change. We know much more bars and restaurants, so at least we can tell you what you can expect from something we do not review . So do not hesitate to ask us !

Just a glass of wine with cold tapas (nice delicatessen) before dinner

Some of the Local wine we like from south Andalusia

• From Cadiz Province : Barbazul (in red and white), Garum (Red), Samaruco (red), Tintilla (Red), Entrechuelos in White, Parpatana in White
• From Jerez : Fino (it is named Manzanilla in Sanlucar de Barrameda), Palo Cortado (older fino), Cream (sherry wine, which are actually a mix in between dry & sweet sherry wines). Try these local wine from Jerez in RAMA !(meaning directly from the barrel, it really tastes different)
• Sweet wine : Moscatel (from pasas meaning from sun dried grapes , they make it in Chipiona), Pedro Jimenez

A nice option to try a wine from Jerez is to get it directly from the barrel (en rama it is called)

Vinoteca Jerezana

Calle Arcos, 4. Jerez de la Frontera Tel 722 745 529

You can sample several wines and understand what Sherry wine is about without doing the full tour of a Bodega. We like very much their Palo Cortado.

If you want to try some wine from different area in Spain, we suggest you Ribera del Duero, Almansa,  Jumilla, Toro, not as know as Rioja but very often interesting

We do like wine ! So we pretty often we buy them online (not for the local ones) on the website www.decantalo.com, or  http://www.vivino.com

what about trying a local Vermuth:

Tabanco Plateros

A little bit further away of the plaza Plateros (in front of a good fruit and vegetable shop in Jerez). They specialized in seafood in can from a couple of very good factories in Barbate and they have a very good tap Vermuth or from  Lustau

Restaurants

Check out if they are open (and do not trust just the web site), they change all the time; on a Friday and Saturday evening it is safer to book in advance, as well as in July and august, Easter, during the flamenco festival and the GP moto…

The first restaurant, right after, is really something you can’t miss at the only condition that high gastronomy interest you

Mantúa : the chef Israel Ramos opened in august 2017 its second restaurant in Jerez (after Albala)

Plaza Aladro, 7, 11402 Jerez de la Frontera, Tel: 856 652 739

www.restaurantemantua.com

What telling you without being over positive ?

This restaurant has only 6 tables (so yes reserve it in advance), 2 waiters very professional, 2/3 cooks and 2 gastronomic menus. Menus are in between 75 up to 90 euros and matching wine in between 30 euros to 40 euros. The chef really put all its talent to magnify local products.  Everything is perfect, the service, the attention, the food obviously and amazing wines. So If you have something to celebrate it could be the place.

Bar Juanito Restaurant: Good traditional local cuisine

Calle de Pescadería Vieja, 8. 11403 Jerez de la Frontera, Tel: 956 34 12 18

Just on the side of El Bichero. Aside of the classicals, they have some very good vegetables (arcichokes ..) and they are renowned for that. You can try the different “guiso” : carrilada, menudo, albondigas… For fried fish El bichero is much better

Albores

Calle Consistorio, 12, 11403 Jerez de la Frontera, Tel : 956 320 256

Local kitchen, good ingredients with modern touch. A nice terrace (inside is a little bit noisy for our taste) and some interesting wine.What else can we ask for a reasonable price !   Booking a table in the terrace is necessary but they do not do it over phone line, you have to drop by !

A Mar

Calle . Latorre, 8, 11403 Jerez de la Frontera, Tel : 956 322 915

Above all the raw products (seafood, meat …) are really prime quality and they cook it perfectly.  They are innovative and sometimes a little bit too much colourful in the plate. A little bit more expensive than Albores but the price is perfectly justified and the overall quality is higher than Albores.  They do not specialise in desert, like almost no one in south of Spain : this is normal.

Albala : Tuna fish tartar is a must

Bar Arturo : This is another option to have good sea product at reasonable price (but remember best Seafood are in Sanlucar de Barrameda)

Calle Guita, 9 11408 Jerez de la Frontera

The area seems a little bit wild  but is is very safe don’t worry !

Hermanos Carrasco

Av. Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald, 1, 11405 Jerez de la Frontera

Tradicional restaurant with modern touch owned by the same family for many years. The three brothers works there and provide you with  talented local revisited recipes. It is just outside the historical center of Jerez, on the main road to Sevilla.  They have a large terrace and it is easy to park there.

La Carboná

Eating real beef (T bone, entrecote …in Andalucia is not so obvious) There is no culture of letting the meat rest during 30 days resting. They find their meat in the sierra of Cadiz (in between Grazalema and Bolonia to simplify) For a nice piece of good meat, this is one of the place, not the cheapest but value is ok. You can try as well the different option of Iberic pork which is much more in the culture of the area.  They have very good testing menu based on local wines, this is definitely worth to try.  The wine list is awesome for all the local wines (and we have a a lot), and last but not least   the vast majority can be sample by glass (not only bootle)

Calle San Francisco de Paula, 2. 11401 Jerez de la Frontera, Tel: 956 34 74 75 

 Best Ice Cream in Town

La rosa de oro

calle consistorio, at the level of plaza arenal; tel 956 905639

Chocolate and orange chocolate are actually very good