Arte de Cozina

Arte de Cozina is Charo Carmona's house at Calle Calzada, 27-29, five minutes' walk from Plaza de San Sebastián. It occupies a 17th-century Antequera house that belonged to the palace of the Baron of Sabasona, with rooms on the upper floors. The kitchen is dedicated to reviving the old recipe books of Antequera and the province of Málaga, and on the menu a symbol marks the dishes rescued from those notebooks. The house holds a Repsol Guide Sol for 2026 and Antequera Tourism counts it among its restaurants of distinction.

Porras, stews and partridge: the November menu

The November 2026 menu is laid out like a recipe book. To start, porras at €15: white, orange from the Guadalhorce valley, organic tomato or an assortment of the three, which is the way to understand the difference. Next come salads such as the salt-cured sardine one or the pickled hen one (€20.50), shepherd's migas, zarangollo and scrambled eggs with Antequera blood sausage, between €21 and €24.

Then come the stews and casseroles: puchero broth with mint (€13), maimones soup, chestnut stew, olla podrida, hen pepitoria, between €20 and €24, and a little partridge puchero at €39. In meat dishes, partridge in gazpacho broth, an Antequera recipe, costs €44; the suckling Málaga kid neck with thyme, the hot retinta salmorejo or the pork loin from the crock, €30. There are stewed fish dishes, such as the cured-fish meatballs with prawns (€29). The desserts, all homemade and at €11.50, include almond bienmesabe made with Marcona almonds, goat's-cheese almojábanas or capirotada. A cover charge is added separately, at €2.50. With a starter, main and dessert, expect about €55 to €70 per person without wine.

The María Mestayer menu

If you want to try things without choosing, the November tasting menu, named after María Mestayer, costs €70 per person including VAT and includes three drinks: ajopimentón, an assortment of porras, chestnut stew with chickpeas, cured-fish meatballs, pork loin and, for dessert, almojábana and bienmesabe. It is for the whole table and the dishes change according to the market.

The bar, for a shorter meal

On the ground floor is Arte de Tapas, with small portions from the same recipe book and a beer list that includes Japanese ones. The wines are from the Málaga and Sierras de Málaga appellations, and there is a separate vermouth list; it is run by the sommelier Fran Martínez. The bar suits you if you are coming from visiting the Alcazaba or the Collegiate Church of Santa María, which are up the hill.

Sunday without dinners

The kitchen is open Monday to Saturday from 13:00 to 16:00 and from 20:00 to 23:00; on Sunday it serves lunch only. Book on 952 840 014, by email or by WhatsApp from its website. For parking, the Plaza de Castilla car park is a few minutes' walk away. If you want to sleep in the same house, see the page for its rooms.