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Hornos y confiterías · Seville

Bakery Cafés in Seville

Hornos and pastelerías for breakfast or merienda, from Calle Asunción in Los Remedios to the Plaza de Montesión.

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In Seville a bakery is an horno, literally an oven, and a cake shop is a confitería or pastelería. La Campana, at the end of Calle Sierpes, was founded in 1885 by the pastry chef Antonio Hernández Merino and is now run by the fourth generation; its workshop makes meringues, tortas de polvorón (crumbly almond cakes) and almond lenguas every day.1

Sweets follow the church calendar. From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, La Campana sells torrijas, bread fried in its workshop and finished with honey, and in 2024 it reported making up to 900 a day during Holy Week.2 The everyday occasion is the merienda, the afternoon snack of something sweet with a coffee, usually taken between 17:00 and 20:00.3

Local tip: For a merienda after 20:00, Salt and Sugar on Calle Ximénez de Enciso stays open until 22:00 every day; Otto Café on the Plaza de Montesión closes at 21:00 and takes Thursdays off.

Where these cafés are: Alameda de Hércules (2), Nervión (2), Los Remedios (2), Santa Cruz (1), Centro (1), El Arenal (1), Triana (1), La Cartuja (1).

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  • Opens earliest: Salt and Sugar, from 08:00 (Daily 08:00–22:00).
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Convent sweets and the torno

Seville’s cloistered nuns bake too, and sell through a torno, a revolving hatch set into the convent wall. San Leandro is known for its yemas, small cones of egg yolk and sugar; Santa Inés shapes mantecados with almond, sesame or sugar by hand; and San Clemente keeps one oven gluten-free for its piñonadas, a pine-nut marzipan.4

The number of convents is falling: Afar counted 15 cloistered convents left in the city in 2016, down from 41 in 1993. Their yemas and marzipan also go on sale at the Muestra Anual de Dulces de Convento, a fair held in the first week of December at the Real Alcázar.4

Neighborhood hornos in Los Remedios, Triana and Nervión

Los Remedios, Nervión and the Alameda de Hércules tie for the most bakery cafés. In Los Remedios, Horno Nueva Florida is on Calle Asunción, and Cafetería-Panadería-Alimentación Alfonso on Calle Juan Pablo I combines a café, a bread counter and a small grocery, with step-free access.

In Triana, a plain Panadería-Cafetería on Calle Juan Díaz de Solís sells bread and coffee from one counter. In Nervión, Pastelería 61ºC is on Avenida de la Prensa, and in La Cartuja, Alma Mater pairs its baking with brunch.

Cake and coffee from the Alameda to Santa Cruz

Otto Café on the Plaza de Montesión bakes, serves brunch and opens 08:00–21:00, closing on Thursdays. La Sra Pop on Calle Amor de Dios is a coffee-and-cake café that turns to live music and theater in the evening.5

In Santa Cruz, Salt and Sugar on Calle Ximénez de Enciso is open 08:00–22:00 every day, long enough for a late merienda. Dodici Brunch & Coffee on Calle Alfonso XII has vegan options and takeaway, and Puro & Bio Heladería, on the Paseo de Cristóbal Colón by the river, pairs ice cream with its baking.

Ordering coffee with something sweet

A café con leche is about half coffee and half milk, served in a glass; a café manchado is mostly steamed milk stained with a little coffee, the mildest option alongside a cake.3 Sugar sachets arrive with every cup, because the local roast is considered bitter.3

The calendar runs on at La Campana after Lent, with pestiños, roscos de reyes for Epiphany and panellets in their turn; foreign customers order the pestiños often.2

Sources

  1. Confitería La Campana, Time Out Sevilla (April 8, 2019), accessed October 2026
  2. Las mejores torrijas de Sevilla, en una pastelería que puso de acuerdo a Rocío Jurado y la abuela del Rey, El Español (February 18, 2024), accessed October 2026
  3. Coffee in Seville: Where, What and How to Enjoy it Like a Local, Devour Tours (Emma Fajcz, updated December 24, 2025), accessed October 2026
  4. Who Makes the Best Pastries in Spain? The Nuns, of Course, Afar (Anna Vodicka, September 26, 2016), accessed October 2026
  5. The Best Cafés with WiFi in Seville, Devour Tours (Emma Fajcz, updated December 22, 2025), accessed October 2026
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FAQ

Bakery cafés in Seville: questions

When can you buy torrijas at bakeries in Seville?

Only in Lent and Holy Week. La Campana, the confitería at the end of Calle Sierpes founded in 1885, sells them from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday: bread fried in its workshop and finished with honey. In 2024 it reported making up to 900 a day during Holy Week.

Where do you buy convent sweets in Seville?

At the convents themselves, through the torno, a revolving hatch in the wall. San Leandro is known for yemas of egg yolk and sugar, Santa Inés for hand-shaped mantecados and San Clemente for gluten-free piñonadas. Convent sweets also go on sale at the Muestra Anual de Dulces de Convento in the Real Alcázar in early December.

What is a merienda at a bakery café in Seville?

The merienda is the afternoon snack, usually between 17:00 and 20:00: something sweet with a coffee. A café con leche, about half coffee and half milk, comes in a glass, and sugar sachets arrive with every cup because the local roast is considered bitter.

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