Cartucho - Lucena

I stay in lucena, Spain for the Christmas holidays that friends visit, and there is no restaurant here that I was in more than bar cartucho. if they are looking for an authentic, non-tourist-trap, tapa bar, which is so famous for Andalusia, this is the building. one of the oldest bars in lucena, so the lovely owner/bar station told me. the couple who owns the bar is very friendly and offers a great opportunity to practice her Spanish. the woman cooks every day the food, all very typical Andalusian foods and tapas like bocarones (tint fish served in a kind of vinegar sauce, which is super tasty), Andalusian paella, bocadillos, jam, ensalada rusa "rusian salat", aceitunas (oliives, but the real one that comes here in andalucia etc. before they know they are a little bit sharp, but well fed and satisfied that they have so many different Andalusian foods to experience that you would like. not to mention the breakfast. because there are no dieucks here, I came to see bar cartucho as a job in the morning. I bring my computer, grab a cup of delicious coffee (cafe con leche) and sit down to my spot and enjoy the free wifi. the breakfast is really cheap and they get two huge pieces of bread roasted and with their choice of spreading. they have jam, honey, pate, something strange, that is a kind of fat and is probably really unhealthy, but tastes really good, and a few others dinge. So if they are hidden in lucena (or even in cordoba or málaga lucena in smack dab between the two in short distance from both), I recommend to go a break from all the tourist sites in check out then they finally get a taste of how the traditional Andalusian people really live.