Cocktails at 8 to 10 euros within sight of the Giralda should not survive. Cathedral block economics usually produce 14 euro tourist daiquiris and regret. The Second Room has held the line on Calle Placentines anyway, and On the Sauce Again rates it among the best cocktail rooms in Seville partly because it stays open until 1am when the quarter goes quiet.
The comparison that matters is Bar Americano in Seville, the art deco room inside the Alfonso XIII. Americano sells history at hotel prices. The Second Room sells better value mixing two streets away: a rotating cocktail of the week, a few dozen classics with a house twist, and a strawberry daiquiri that arrives with a hollowed ice cube packed with fresh berries.
It also runs the only double happy hour worth planning around in central Seville. Thursdays and Sundays, 5 to 6pm and again 9 to 10pm. That second window is the move.
The room is compact and dark in the right way, built for conversation rather than barstool theater. Yelp filed it under pubs, which says more about Yelp than about the mixing.
The crowd splits between cathedral day tourists who did their homework and locals who know the happy hour calendar. Novacircle calls it a trendy fixture of the Casco Antiguo, which here means full by 10pm on weekends.
Tripadvisor reviewers keep using the word masterpiece about the drinks. Allow for review inflation and it still lands well above the price point.
What to order
- 01
The cocktail of the week
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Strawberry daiquiri
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Any classic, twisted
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The happy hour repeat