Restaurante Chikito, Granada

Strategically positioned on a downtown corner, the illustrious Chikito is a magnet for the city’s bourgeoisie. Back in 1910, as the Café Alameda, this watering hole became known as El Rinconcillo (“the little corner”) and was the meeting place for a dazzling group of artists and intellectuals. Among them were the musician, Manuel De Falla and the ill-fated poet, Federico García Lorca who, in 1936, was dragged out of the café by Franco’s fascist troops to be summarily executed. Appropriately, a life-size statue of him now sits in the dining room corner.