Best Restaurants in Ronda – A Culinary Guide august 21, 2024 – Posted in: Spain, Travel – Tags: Andalusia, Food, Holiday, Restaurants, Reviews, Ronda, Spain, Vacation
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Must-Try Restaurants in Ronda
The restaurants in Ronda offer a wide variety of dining options, reflecting its popularity as one of Andalusia’s top tourist destinations. Unfortunately, many tourists don’t venture beyond the walk from Puente Nuevo to the most popular restaurant street, Calle Nueva. And that’s a shame!
Calle Nueva, located in the newer part of town, mainly offers pizza, pasta, and nuggets. If you limit yourself to dining here, you’ll miss out on the fantastic Andalusian mountain cuisine that Ronda has to offer. We’d love to introduce you to some of the delicious specialties you can find in Ronda.
Which Restaurants Did We Choose?
We spent three nights in Ronda, and there were more restaurants we wanted to try than the three we actually managed to visit. And before we dive in, here are a few words about what we usually look for when dining out.
Dining is a big part of our vacations. We don’t necessarily eat expensively, but always locally and with regional ingredients. We’re also always on the lookout for great culinary experiences and prefer to try dishes we’ve never had before. Keep this in mind when deciding whether to follow our recommendations.
And now, let’s dig in!
3 Great Restaurants in Ronda
La Taberna
At La Taberna, right by the pedestrian street, we first encountered the delicious mix-up dish, revuelto. The dish always includes scrambled eggs, but with different fillings. Here, it was with potatoes and chorizo. It tasted heavenly, and the same goes for their foie and manchego!
La Taberna is one of the more popular restaurants in town, where families of all ages gather to eat on weekends. There’s plenty of space inside the restaurant, but it fills up quickly. Luckily, there’s also a large heated terrace tent outside, where we found an available table. We paid 35 euros for three courses, wine, bread, and water.
El Coto is a fine little tapas bar located just around the corner from Calle Nueva on Calle Virgen de los Remedios. The change in street names apparently makes a big difference because here, you can really enjoy a great meal!
Bodeguita El Coto
Both for lunch and dinner, the small bar is filled with locals. Arrive early, as there are a limited number of seats!
As you can see in the picture, we tried almost everything on the menu:
- albondigas (meatballs)
- ensaladilla russa (a type of potato salad with shrimp)
- tortilla (Spanish omelet with potatoes)
- paleta (shoulder of Iberico pig)
- caña de lomo (pork loin sausage, also from Iberico pig)
We had a beer and a glass of wine, and even though we really went all out ordering everything we could think of, the bill was less than 15 euros.
NB! Unfortunately, the tapas bar doesn’t have a website we can link to. If you search for “El Coto” on Tripadvisor, the link mistakenly points to another tapas bar on Calle Nueva, which we cannot recommend. But despite all the internet mix-ups, El Coto is fortunately still located at Calle Virgen de los Remedios 20.
Siempre Igual Ronda
It was quite fortunate that we only ate at Siempre Igual on our last night in Ronda. Otherwise, we would have only had time to visit this tapas bar all three days. If you only have one evening in Ronda, this is where you should eat! We arrived when they opened, and the tables filled up quickly.
Since it was our last night, we splurged a bit and ordered four different tapas: berenjenas, queso frito, croquettas, and revueltos patatas. Along with two glasses of house wine, water, and a sherry, the total was just under 45 euros. It was worth every cent!
A Few Tips for Restaurants in Ronda
In the evening, when the last bus with day-trippers has left the city, the peace and quiet settles in, and the locals flock to the restaurants. We visited Ronda in March and didn’t find it difficult to get a table. However, we can’t say what it’s like to dine in Ronda during the high season in summer.
Dining times are similar to other Spanish cities: lunch from 12-16 and dinner from 8 PM. Most hotels serve breakfast, and we saw very few breakfast cafés. On the other hand, there’s plenty of afternoon relaxation to be had at the small bars on Plaza de la Duquesa de Parcent in the old town.
More Tips for Your Holiday in Ronda
Find a Good Hotel in Ronda
Where should you stay when in Ronda? At the lovely Parador de Ronda hotel – right by the gorge and Puente Nuevo, of course! But there are other options as well, though it’s a grand experience to draw the curtains and gaze out at the sunrise over the mountain peaks. Or how about swimming in the hotel’s pool, with a view of the gorge?
From the outside, the hotel, which by the way is the city’s former town hall, looks like a classic Spanish holiday hotel, but inside everything is new and beautiful. We stayed in a room with a view directly of Puente Nuevo. We expected a lot of noise from the bridge, but when the last bus with day-trippers leaves, the only sound is the evening birdsong over the city’s rooftops.
Breakfast deserves its own story. There’s no automatic coffee machine in the large breakfast buffet here. Instead, you get really good, strong coffee, served at your table in the most beautiful silver pot. Meanwhile, you can tell the waiter whether you prefer your eggs fried or scrambled – and he’ll bring them to you, freshly made!
Read more about the hotel here: Parador de Ronda and see all the other hotels in Ronda by clicking here. You can also do your own search for hotels in Ronda right here: