We chose our apartment partly based on its proximity to Mercado de la Feria, the oldest market in Seville.
The market is located alongside the oldest church in Seville, the magnificently named Omnium Sanctorum, which dates to the 13th Century.
Around the market are food stalls and restaurants with seats that spill into the sidewalks and passages it shares with the church.
Although the market is very old and still features all the traditional stuff — tiled cervecerías, butchers offering vats of offal, odoriferous fish mongers — the place is not a museum that’s been frozen in time.
The market interior appears recently renovated and many newer and trendier businesses seem to be doing well, at least if the crowds of (mostly) young people that fill them every afternoon and evening are any indication (we tend to arrive earlier to get a seat, and because our stomachs will probably never completely adjust to 9pm dinners).
Very early in our stay in Seville we enjoyed shockingly good burgers and fries at the oddly named Atticus Finch: To Kill a Burger.
Inside the market building, we enjoyed Condendê so much that we’ve returned twice and tried most of the regular menu. They specialize in street food with a Brazilian, Central American and Asian angle, including the best arepa sandwiches we’ve ever had (why can’t anyone in Toronto make these seemingly simple things taste so good?)
