All the flavor of Seville in the Old San Lorenzo Abacería
The old grocery store of San Lorenzo is a place that does not admit category or classification, a kind shop-bar-restaurant – what difference does it make how we want to name it – which is located in a house from the 17th century in Seville San Lorenzo neighborhood.
A narrow space of corridors and narrow corners in which to settle in and let time pass, surrounded by walls that share the excellence of its products and the glories of his past and that of his parishioners.
Perhaps it is true that in Seville is allergic to linen tablecloths and formal service.
San Lorenzo neighborhood square
Maybe because in Seville hospitality and gastronomy are something eminently Social or maybe because here some pork rinds and a stew with his pringá They have no complexes in coexisting with a manzanilla in branch, a Champagne or a Vega Sicilia.
Because gastronomy in Seville is that: conviviality and authenticity.
And it is that in a Sevillian tavern the hotelier is portrayed but, above all, the client is portrayed: whoever enters the door must be up to the category and history of the place.
Premium Cadiz Chicharrones from La Antigua Abacería de San Lorenzo
And, that, in the case of the Old San Lorenzo Grocery Store , is saying a lot. They impose those walls full of history and that permanently crowded labyrinth but they command and temper the magic of that little shop with selected products , your careful roots kitchen and, above all, its owners, great hosts.
Because in the Abacería, of course, they rule Mari Carmen and Ramon and it is fitting to entrust their menu which will necessarily start with a few “premium” cracklings from Cadiz or those liver black pudding so Andalusian and those wonderful potatoes with prawns they are a monument to simplicity.
And from there we will continue with that wonderful hare soup with tomato and bread to eat with green pepper that pays homage to the simple cuisine of hunters, or those Retinto meatballs, Iberian pork and salami, juicy and tender , or those squid stuffed with potatoes to the importance.
'Little Soldiers' of Pavia from the Old San Lorenzo Abacería
And, in between, it would be necessary to give the Ramón's eggs or Álvaro's , that the case is not leave here without touching the eggs.
But, for nothing in the world do you miss the pout and montadito of your pringá . Saint and sign of the Grocery store of San Lorenzo and absolutely essential in its command.
For dessert, a variety of cheese cake and wine torrijas and some cakes from Alcalá . And drink wine, there is a lot of good wine here. Happiness is this.
Grocery Store