¡Ha llegado el momento de actualizar nuestro 'Top 10' original! Nos tomamos muy en serio nuestra investigación (¡por supuesto!), recopilamos opiniones de amigos y comentarios de nuestros huéspedes sobre los bares, cafés y restaurantes más populares de Ronda y los pueblos cercanos. No podíamos limitarnos a solo 10, por lo que ampliamos nuestra lista a nuestros 25 favoritos, para que haya algo para todos y para cada ocasión.
As it seems that our blogs recommending restaurants in and around Ronda are among the most frequently-read (hiking in Ronda is the most popular – thanks for following us folks!) and we love to help our guests and visitors to Ronda experience the very best from our hometown, we thought it about time we shared another five of our discoveries with you. It was such a struggle to dine out in so many different places, experiencing all the natural flavours of Andalusia (and we certainly need to do a bit of hiking now to balance things out!), but we were strong enough to accept the challenge and here are the results:
The peppered history of Andalucía and its peoples has occasioned a fusion of ingredients and cooking methods. The arrival of the Moors from Arabia and North Africa proved the greatest influence on food, but they didn’t only bring with them aromatic spices and herbs. They also introduced irrigation systems (the ‘huertas’) to the arid lands of the south. Andalusian cuisine remains fresh and simple, with leanings towards a peasant’s diet due to historical periods of abject poverty in Spain. Staples were soups, paellas and rich stews cooked for great lengths of time on ‘stove-tops’, called poyos. The poyos and the poverty may be long gone, but the dishes remain, and these are a few you can sample during your visit to Andalucía: