Los Coloniales
Excellent value. Specialities include the ‘tablas’ which are thick cut slices of country bread that is toasted, slathered with salmorejo (a very thick gaspacho-type sauce) and then topped with chunks or slices of jamón serrano. Other favourites are the various solomillo (grilled pork tenderloin) tapas that are offered with a variety of sauces - ‘al whisky’, roquefort, ‘a la castellana’. There is also a nice chicken breast tapa served with a creamy almond sauce.
You have to get there early to get a table on the terrace, say, just after 8pm. Otherwise you give them your name and they write it on the small blackboard outside and call you from the bar, if you’ve gone there to have a drink and wait.
I personally prefer eating at the bar myself, if it’s just the two of us, because then I can chat with the waiters and whatever. It kind of adds to the fun of it all. And I can say stupid stuff like - hey, you call that a glass of wine? - at which point they fill it up properly. 
As the tapas end up being the size of media-raciones in other places, it is certainly very good value and also it’s just very good food.
Plaza Cristo de Burgos/San Pedro
My favorite place in Sevilla…
The “lomo de buey” is fantastic and really good value for money!!!
Great Site - high quality work!!!!!!!
João
November 18th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Hola João, and welcome.
Have you seen that there is a second Coloniales location now?
November 18th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I saw it but never went there. Have they the same menu or is it completly diferent?
Best regards,
João
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
The menu at the new place is exactly the same, and so is the quality and also the prices. I thought having a more central location next to the cathedral might put the prices up, but it hasn’t - at least not so far.
Do you live in Sevilla, João?
November 24th, 2007 at 7:57 am
I live in Portimão - Algarve ( Portugal ) and go often to Seville.
November 25th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Myself, my wife, and two other couples just got back from a four week trip to Spain and Portugal. We ate at Los Coloniales at the suggestion of the concierge at our hotel.
It was the worst meal, and the worst service that we experienced during our entire trip. We asked if they had room for six inside and they said yes. Then they proceed to put us at a table that would have been too small for four people, and right by the kitchen door. As if that were not bad enough the waitress insisted that it would be better if SHE decided what to bring us so that it would fit on the table. I’m so angry about this that I will continue to post this on as many travel web sites as I can.
And by the way… the food was terrible.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:22 am
What a shame you had such a bad experience, Nelson. It’s also a shame your concierge didn’t know enough to advise you to get there early. When I see the place (really any place) totally packed out I don’t even bother going in.
Better luck next time!
July 27th, 2008 at 10:43 pm