Ajoblanco
VegAlmonds, bread, garlic, olive oil, vinegar and water blended into a pale cold soup and served with muscat grapes floated on top — occasionally with melon instead.
€5–9
Best around: Calle Granada, beside the Roman theatre
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Search Málaga dishes by craving — ajoblanco, espeto de sardinas, pescaíto frito and more.
6 dishes worth going out of your way for in Málaga, 3 of them vegetarian. Each one lists where to eat it, because the dish and the room that does it well are not the same question.
Pitufo and Vino dulce de Málaga are a breakfast thing here, and sell out by mid-morning.
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Espeto de sardinas
Non-vegSix sardines threaded onto a cane, salted, and planted at an angle beside a wood fire built in a sand-filled boat on the beach. They cook in the radiant heat rather than over the flame, and come to the table on the cane.
€3–6 a skewer
Best around: Pedregalejo seafront and El Palo, at the east end of the seafront
Pescaíto frito
Non-vegSmall fish — anchovies, red mullet, squid, small hake, whatever came in — floured and fried fast in very hot olive oil so the coating stays thin and dry. A fritura malagueña is the mixed plate of it.
€10–18 a plate
Best around: Pedregalejo seafront and El Palo, at the east end of the seafront
Pitufo
VegA small soft roll of about fifty grams, split, toasted and dressed — plainest with olive oil and grated tomato, or filled with ham, tortilla, tuna or manteca colorá. A pitufo mixto is ham and cheese.
€1.50–4
Best around: The alley off Calle Larios, beside Atarazanas market
Porra antequerana
Non-vegTomato, bread, garlic and a lot of olive oil worked to something you could stand a spoon in — thicker than salmorejo and much thicker than gazpacho — topped with chopped egg and jamón or tuna.
€5–10
Best around: Calle Granada, beside the Roman theatre
Vino dulce de Málaga
VegSweet wine from moscatel and Pedro Ximénez grapes grown in the hills around the city and dried in the sun before pressing — poured from the barrel by the glass, in styles from the pale seco to the almost-black lágrima and pajarete.
€1.50–3 a glass
Best around: Alameda Principal and Calle Granada, beside the Roman theatre