La Bodega Mariano Camacho is a wine
bar worth a visit when in Seville, during the snail season in
particular. It's probably one on the best places in Seville to enjoy
an appetizer (tapa) of snails (caracoles) seasoned with a spicy
peppery flavour and richly served on a saucer. Another of the
attractions of this bar you can not miss is its beer. The beer is
always excellently cooled down to serving temperature and poured with
care and attention. The
fame of pouring perfect beer and serving Seville's best snails means
this bar
is usually pretty full, especially in the summer, but
don't let that deter you from going - the waiters are fast.
Stew of snails and beer. Photos by Association Apoloybaco
Notwithstanding
its evident antiquity, the narrow streets of the old town of Seville still provide an
ample selection of modernised
bars and
cafés with trendy bar equipment and new décor in contemporary
colours and classic lines, but La Bodega Mariano Camacho isn't
interested in any of that, choosing instead to play the card of
all the grace of an old
bar.
Old floor of the bar. Photo by Susanne Vogel
It has this uneven ceramic floor typical in
older-style bars, particularly in unrenovated buildings. Your bill
is
written
in chalk right
on the bar
counter. You have to use the almost nonexistent ladies' room with
only a curtain to it, no door, and you have to ask the waiters to let
you pass by the bar to enter it.
Interior of the bar. Photo by Association Apoloybaco
A
real old time feel here. You can tell the interior has remained
virtually unchanged over a long period of time, for more than hundred
years. La
Bodega Mariano Camacho is a symbol of the bars' Seville from the
early twentieth century to the present day. It
resides in a characteristic 18th-century house-palace
located in the
Pumarejo Square (Plaza de Pumarejo),
in Seville's old town (Casco Antiguo) neighbourhood of San Gil.
View to the bar from the Pumarejo Square. Photo by Yelp Search
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