Seville Cooks

Special. Two people booking together receive a 10% discount per person. Through 2008.

For a six-day program in Sevilla, see Culinary Andalucía.

This four-day program in Seville features 2 cooking classes, a private tapas tour, a trip to Jerez de la Frontera, and Seville explorations.

Indulge yourself in Spanish cuisine during four days in seductive Seville. Willy Moya, the much acclaimed chef of the restaurant Poncio, teaches the cooking classes. All classes take place in Willy’s restaurant kitchen, where he leads you on a gastronomic exploration of Spain, exploring tapas, gazpachos, fish and seafood, Spanish meat dishes, and desserts. He is always ready to custom design a day or a week of cooking for you. Willy is passionate and extremely knowledgeable about Spanish cooking, which makes him an ideal instructor for people at all levels of experience.

Your guide is a local gastronomy expert who takes you on a tapas tour in historic Seville, assisting you in interpreting the myriad offerings. Your visit will also feature a visit to two wineries in Jerez de la Frontera, the neighboring sherry-producing capital of Spain. While in Jerez, you will have a chance to visit the thirteenth-century Moorish Alcázar and eat in one of the city’s best authentic restaurants.

Your four-star deluxe hotel located in the heart of Seville’s ancient Jewish Quarter is made up of interconnected medieval and Renaissance houses and palaces, linked by patios. In addition to the soothing atmosphere, the hotel features a spa adjoining the excavated Roman ruins below the hotel and a rooftop swimming pool.

Authentic Andalusian Cuisine

Seville is the capital of Andalucía and arguably its most vibrant city. Seville’s historic core is among Europe’s largest, and reflects the city’s importance in Roman, Moorish, Jewish and imperial Spain. Formerly car-choked streets have become car-free and the bicycle and the tram are becoming commonplace modes of transport. As one of the leading flamenco centers in Spain, Seville is replete with quality guitar and dance performances.

Seville also boasts a dynamic food culture with an immense array of dishes on display in the tabernas and restaurants–tapas. The choices of tapas seem infinite as you wander from place to place. 

ITINERARY

4 Days/3 Nights

Tapas Tour

Day One Sevilla

Transfer to your deluxe hotel. Your specialist guide picks you up at the hotel and leads you on a tapas tour of the best spots in Seville. The tabernas, though often diminutive, astound with the dizzying variety of tapas covering the bars. Your guide knows the specialties of each place.

Bodegas, an Alcázar & Cooking

Day Two Jerez & Sevilla

Today’s visit is a must as the sherry bodegas are unique in the world. Jerez, whose name means sherry, is home to myriad bodegas–cavernous palaces housing stack upon stack of wine barrels. We tour our first bodega and learn the intricacies of making sherry, brandy and sherry wine vinegar. After sampling a number of different types of sherry, we move on to a small family-run bodega to sample some remarkable wines. We then visit the thirteenth-century Moorish Alcázar in Jerez and eat in one of the best local restaurants featuring authentic jerezano cuisine. We return to Seville for our first cooking class, where we begin our exploration of Spanish and Andalusian cuisines. Dinner with wine will be in the instructor’s restaurant.

Sevilla & Cooking

Day Three Sevilla

Today you have a chance to visit Seville as you wish, taking in the magnificent cathedral or the Royal Alcázar, a 14th century Mudéjar palace, or simply strolling around the Barrio de Santa Cruz, formerly the Jewish Quarter. For lunch you can revisit some of the tapas bars from the first night, or we can recommend excellent restaurants in the center of town. After a rest, a swim in the rooftop pool, or some time in the spa, we will head to our second cooking class. Dinner will follow the class in the restaurant.

Farewell Sevilla

Day Four Transfer to the airport or train station

Breakfast and transfer to the airport or train station.

Note: This tour is also available as a six day tour with two additional cooking classes with Willy Moya and an excursion to the stunning pueblo blanco of Arcos de la Frontera and a cutting edge winery.

What We Include: Accommodation for 3 nights Airport or train station transfers 2 private cooking classes Tapas tour in Sevilla Winery tours and tastings in Jerez 2 dinners 1 lunch Breakfast daily All transportation Restaurant gratuities Epicurean Ways apron and Gourmet Gift Bag Not Included: Airfare to/from Spain Meals not specified Accident/baggage/trip cancellation insurance Gratuities to guides

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