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Spain dominates world’s best restaurants list

Food & Drink  •  20 Comments

El Celler de Can Roca in Spain has been voted the world’s finest restaurant

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ElBulli at home?

Features, Food & Drink  •  1 Comments

New app provides menus chosen by renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria

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Save us from the chop!

Food & Drink  •  0 Comments

A campaign has been launched to keep Andalucia’s best cookery school in business

Javier Bardem forced to close family restaurant thumbnail

Javier Bardem forced to close family restaurant

Entertainment, Food & Drink  •  1 Comments

Oscar-winning actor has closed his Madrid based eatery ‘after two years of prolonged losses’

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Bitter sweet in the Big Apple

Andalucia, Features, Food & Drink  •  0 Comments

Andalucia’s top chef has had a mixed month as he opens his first US restaurant

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Paul Young cooks up a storm on the Costa del Sol

Food & Drink, Lead2  •  0 Comments

Annabel Grossman meets pop star turned celebrity chef on a cooking day in Fuengirola

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Mediterranean diet could reduce risk of heart-related illnesses by 30%

Andalucia, Food & Drink  •  3 Comments

New Spanish trial cut short after ‘amazing’ results


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Gin sales surge in Spain

Andalucia, Food & Drink  •  0 Comments

Drinks giant to relaunch products with £1m marketing campaign


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Going local in Andalucia

Features, Food & Drink  •  4 Comments

Mason Jones looks at how supermarkets compare to specialist shops in the region


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Anyone fancy a green ‘testicle’?

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With the avocado season in full swing, James Bryce discovers there is no better time to enjoy a fruit which takes its name from a Mexican word meaning male genitalia


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Spanish vegetable shortage

Almeria, Andalucia, Features, Food & Drink  •  5 Comments

Adverse weather along Spain’s east coast has led to a shortage of vegetables, producers have warned


TV chef’s revamp for Ronda restaurant thumbnail

TV chef’s revamp for Ronda restaurant

Andalucia, Features, Food & Drink, Malaga  •  2 Comments

A Japanese restaurant in Ronda has featured in the first in the series of Spain’s version of the UK’s Kitchen Nightmares


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Sweet success

Features, Food & Drink  •  2 Comments

Over 32 tonnes of the famous nougat, first introduced to Spain by the Moors, was produced in 2011


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Top Spanish restaurant in foie gras fall out

Features, Food & Drink  •  2 Comments

A Spanish restaurant voted among the world’s best has been fined for using foie gras from an unlicensed producer


Avocados in Spain at risk of devastation from fungus transmitted by beetles thumbnail

Avocados in Spain at risk of devastation from fungus transmitted by beetles

Andalucia, Food & Drink  •  1 Comments

Fusarium is spread by the Euwallacea fornicatus, which originally came from south-east Asia


TV chef’s revamp for Ronda restaurant thumbnail

TV chef’s revamp for Ronda restaurant

Andalucia, Features, Food & Drink, Malaga  •  2 Comments

A Japanese restaurant in Ronda has featured in the first in the series of Spain’s version of the UK’s Kitchen Nightmares

Features, Food & Drink »

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Spain goes à la cart

Spain’s top chefs embrace horse meat for gourmet dining as sales rise nationally

Enkvist Wines Gaucin


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Back to basics in Casares

One experienced German chef is proving that you can eschew modern cooking styles and still be exciting, discovers Jon Clarke

Features, Food & Drink, Lead2 »

Spanish restaurant elBulli holds wine cellar auction thumbnail

Spanish restaurant elBulli holds wine cellar auction

Spain’s most famous restaurant is to sell off its wine collection in Hong Kong and New York

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“The best English newspaper in southern Spain,” according to the Rough Guide. The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain. 33,000 issues a fortnight are printed plus up to 100,000 downloaded online giving an estimated readership of around 300,000 people per month.

From The Archives »

House that Eiffel built

October 8, 2010 | Property

Buying and selling your dream home in Andalucia just got easier with the launch of the groundbreaking new website www.allaboutandaluciaproperty.com

The only way is up for Santander airport

January 31, 2012 | Lead2, Travel

The airport is fast-growing – and it’s all thanks to one airline

Richard Duende’s Spanish Gardening Tips (winter)

February 12, 2007 | Uncategorized

AS the days are now beginning to lengthen, I have begun to think ahead to the coming growing season in the vegetable garden: what to grow and ways to really maximize the area we have set aside this year for our fresh veg. Most of us tend to plant in straight rows with areas of [...]

Pensioner fined for damp home

July 15, 2009 | Andalucia

A vulnerable Ronda pensioner has been fined for keeping a damp house

Bridget Jones knickers for men

October 23, 2010 | National News

Clothing giant Marks & Spencer has a new range of body enhancing underwear

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