ANDALUCÍA - MÁLAGA - BODEGA BAR EL PIMPI

Miguel Renoir Spanish Guides
Dec 11, 2024
2 min read

Updated: 4 days ago

BODEGA BAR EL PIMPI

This boisterous bar, right in the historical city centre, next to the Alcazaba, is one of Malaga's most famous. El Pimpi is mentioned in every imaginable tourist guide.

Despite its reputation as a tourist hotspot, this restaurant has maintained the quality of its food for which it first became famous. It is also very well-priced.

Bodegas Bar El Pimpi is an interesting maze-like building with a series of rooms with many different styles and cultural experiences.

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They serve excellent Jamón Ibérico de Bellota.

With good local Bodegas Málaga wine, like Pernales, by the glass.

There is a large outside seating area with lovely views of the Alcazaba. There are two entrances: Calle Granada and Calle Jardines Alcazabilla, which has an outdoor terrace.

The bar at Bodegas El Pimpi dates from the nineteenth century, when boys at the port of Málaga helped passengers off boats and carried their suitcases and belongings to their residences.

They were known as pimpis. Over time, the pimpis grew in number and became the first tour guides in town. They had special bikes they used to ride around town. Once organised, they began to run a tavern opposite the Roman Theatre. This tavern, the now-famous El Pimpi, became a popular meeting place for youngsters and tourists alike, and the rest, as they say, is now history.