Granada has the best food deal in Europe: every alcoholic drink comes with a free tapa, and the quality increases with each round. Three days here means eating extraordinarily well for almost nothing.
The benchmark Granada tapas bar — each drink comes with their famous boquerones fritos (anchovies), calamares or berberecho (cockle) tapas. Two rounds costs €6 and you've had a substantial snack.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe tapas at Bar Poë are legendary — the pringá (slow-cooked pork fat melt) on toast that comes with round one is one of the finest things in Granada. With a vermouth on ice (vermut con naranja).
By round 5 across 3 different bars, you've eaten enough for a full dinner at no extra cost. This is Granada. Order one more, get one more tapa.
The churrerías near the Cathedral (Bar Granada or Chocolatería San Ginés-style) serve thick hot chocolate (dipping consistency) with churros (fried dough sticks) at midnight. The most Spanish ending.
Toasted bread rubbed with ripe tomato and drizzled with Andalucían olive oil (the finest in Spain) — the purist Andalucían breakfast, with a café solo. At any bakery café in the Albaicín.
The Alpujarras (the Sierra Nevada foothills) produce extraordinary jamón serrano, chestnut honey, goat cheese and olive oil — some of it available at the Albaicín market (Saturday is best).
Moroccan-style mint tea (muy dulce — very sweet) in a cushioned cave café, with pistachio pastries and the smell of incense. The most North African hour in Europe.
The Plaza Trinidad tapas circuit (La Taberna de Yasmin, Bar León, El Bar de Fede) offers different styles: jamón croqueta, salmorejo (a thicker tomato and bread soup/dip), and the Moorish-influenced aubergines with honey and goat cheese.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideA chilled glass of fino sherry (the dry, saline, almond-scented sherry of Jerez) at a wine bar in the Centre. The most Andalucían way to end a Granada evening.
After the monastery, breakfast at a café in the Realejo (the former Jewish quarter, now bohemian) — the best café con leche in Granada is at a Realejo terrace café.
The plato alpujarreño (the mountain food of the Sierra Nevada villages) — papas a lo pobre (poor potatoes with peppers and olive oil), blood sausage, jamón and chorizo — served as a tapa at the Realejo bars.
The classic Granada view at golden hour: the Alhambra palace, the Sierra Nevada snow behind it, and the city below. The finest view in Spain at the finest time of day.
The ultimate Granada farewell: as many bars as you can fit on Calle Navas and the surrounding streets, with a free tapa at each stop. The city's greatest gift to the hungry traveler.
A glass of wine from the local Contraviesa-Alpujarras appellation (a high-altitude wine region few outside Andalucía know about) at a wine bar. The most local possible Granada finale.