Taberna del Alabardero

One of Seville's most prestigious restaurants occupies a 19th-century town house 3 blocks from the Seville Cathedral. Famous as the dining choice of nearly every politician and diplomat who visits Seville, it recently hosted the king and queen of Spain, the Spanish president and members of his cabinet, and dozens of well-connected but merely affluent visitors. Amid a collection of European antiques and oil paintings, you'll dine in any of two main rooms or three private ones, and perhaps precede your meal with a drink or tapas on the flower-filled patio. A garden in back has additional tables. Tantalizing menu items include spicy peppers stuffed with pulverized thigh of bull, Andalusian fish (urta) on a compote of aromatic tomatoes with coriander, cod filet with essence of red peppers, and Iberian beefsteak with foie gras and green peppers.

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