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Granada - Getting Around / Eating & Drinking

  • Arriving & Getting Around

    Granada airport is located about 16 kilometres west of the city. Ryanair fly to it direct from London Stansted and Liverpool. The airport bus is scheduled to coincide with flights and takes about 25 minutes from the airport to the city centre.

    Except for local buses to nearby towns, all services operate from the bus station on Carretera de Jaén, 3 kilometres north west of the city centre. The station is served by city bus numbers 3 and 33, which stop along the Gran Via.

  • Eating & Drinking

    Granada is one of the few places left in Spain where the free tapas tradition still thrives. Order a drink at a bar and, if the server shouts ‘Un primero’ (‘One first’), you know you’re first free tapas is on the way. Usually, the level of gastro delight rises with each drink (e.g. olives with the first beer, ham with the second, paella with the third) but it varies from bar to bar (and hour to hour).
    Calle Elvira and its environs are also home to the reverse reconquista of Granada’s gastro landscape – with kebab shops and teterias (tea rooms) jostling for space. The teterias are popular with backpackers and young locals and are becoming vital stops on the nightlife trail, some offering live music along with infusions and hookahs. A new interest in Granada’s Moorish past is also enlivening the normally staid offerings in the city’s restaurants – especially in the Albaicín. Here you’ll find a slew of carmen restaurants with beautiful terraces and gardens. Beware, though, that many are trading on their views, rather than the food and service.
    It’s easy to avoid the tourist traps – steer clear of laminated menues and touting waiters – which are predictably clustered around the Alhambra, Plaza Neuva and Plaza Bib-Rambla. To dine with the locals, head for the area above the Camino del Ronda around Plaza de Gracia or to the pijo (posh) bars and restaurants within the Plaza de Toros.