Doble de Cepa — Local services in Córdoba

A highlight of our stay in Cordoba, Doble de Cepa is a tablao everyone should experience!

Coincidentally, we found the restaurant by chance when we faintly heard music emerging from the restaurant's closed doors. Not knowing what we'd stumbled upon, we cautiously entered to see the final moments of an afternoon performance. Thankfully, we were invited back that same evening.

The evening performance started at roughly 9:40pm and featured a talented vocalist and guitarist along with both male and female dancers. Cumulatively these artists demonstrated both a passion and talent that was nothing short of captivating.

Having had a brief childhood stint learning how to dance Flamenco, I was stuck by how the 'stomping' and 'clapping' were fully incorporated as musical elements that skillfully augmented the guitar and vocals. This was not the Flamenco I had experienced as a young child in Canada.

The entire show was free. A hat was passed at the end and I can't imagine anyone would not throw €20-50 to support the talent. Meanwhile, food and drink was served throughout the show.

If you're in Cordoba, I highly recommend...

I left half through the show because the level of noise was intolerable. It was literally painful to my ears. The restaurant is an enclosed yard which accelerates sounds, on top of that they use microphones. Even though the waiter asked to turn it down a little bit, it was still extremely noisy. At some point, I just started to use my active noise canceling earbuds. I believe this space is not suitable for this kind of show. That’s really said because I wanted to see a good flamenco show.

The show was OK, but I was not impressed. To me it felt mechanical and a bit emotionless. I don’t know what the relationships of the dancer with her team are, maybe they do not treat her well, but it seems like she could not team up with them. She was sitting there with the bored face and only changed it for the dance performance. I understand that flamenco also includes singing and guitar, it is not only a dance, but for me, the dance is the most important part, and I wanted it to be colorful and passionate. The dress was boring as well, no colors. I don’t know, maybe in the evening with good lighting it would have...

My group told me "no more walking" after visiting la Mezquita, so we ended up here...the right place, hands down! Excellent service-Karim is a bad ass waiter, he let us try a couple of wines before we found one we liked, clarified the things we didn't know on the menu, and made recommendations that ended up being perfect for us. Coupled with Julian, who chatted with us, made suggestions for the rest of our trip in other parts of Spain, and was all around lovely as well. The food is delicious and wonderfully prepared-we had a mix of Cordobán and Andalusian dishes from the menu, and each was better than the next: the eggplant with caramelized glaze, flamenquin with cheese and shrimp, patatas cortijeras, and the arroz negro con t...life-changing rice, I...