Founded in 1935 as Especias Alhambra by Pedro Barranco Pérez and renamed Especias Barranco under the second generation from 1951, this Granada shop on Calle Puentezuelas sells bulk spices, natural teas, herbs, honey, coffee and dried fruit.
Best for Bulk spices, natural teas, herbs, honey, coffee and dried fruit
Especias Barranco began in 1935, when Pedro Barranco Pérez opened a spice business in Granada under the name Especias Alhambra, selling small paper-wrapped packets of spices around the province. His daughter Josefina Barranco and her husband Remigio Suárez took over in 1951, carrying the trade forward under the family name the shop still uses, and a third generation now runs the business from its home on Calle Puentezuelas.
The shop deals in bulk rather than pre-packaged goods: spices and seasoning blends, natural loose teas and herbal infusions, raw honey sourced from the Granada region, coffee, and dried fruits and nuts, all weighed out to order across the counter or through the online shop. It's a working example of the kind of specialist herbolario-and-spice trade that used to anchor Spanish market streets — the current owners describe the shop's approach as flavor without artifice, prioritizing unadulterated, additive-free product over anything mass-produced.
Ninety years and three generations in, it's as much a neighborhood institution as a retailer, the kind of place where regulars go for a specific blend and leave with a recommendation on top.
Espartería San José has traded from Calle Jáudenes 3 in Granada since Antonio Rosales Yañez opened it in 1907 to sell tools to farm people from the surrounding villages. The fifth generation of the family now runs it. It buys from small local artisans working esparto grass and wicker, along with anea rush and wood. Shelves hold olive wood mortars and esparto lamps. Wicker trunks stand beside palmito stools and coils of hemp cordage.
Best for Esparto baskets, olive-wood mortars and wicker from Granada artisans
Antonio Rosales Yañez opened the Espartería San José in 1907 to sell tools for the countryside. Farm people from the villages around Granada came to Calle Jáudenes, as did carriers from the Valle de Lecrin and the Alpujarra and workers from the cortijos of the province. They bought tool handles and halters. Sickles hung beside sieves. Salt stones sat with cowbells, and packsaddles were sold alongside rush-seated chairs. Two artisans worked on the premises in those years. Vargas worked leather and packsaddlery, and Garrote, a picador by trade, made saddlery whose kind has now all but vanished from the fields. The shop says it has come through a civil war and deep economic crises without leaving Calle Jáudenes or the premises it has always occupied. The fifth generation of the family now runs it. It continues to buy from small artisans of the Granada area who still work esparto grass and wicker, along with anea rush and wood. The shop frames that trade as support for local craft and for the local economy. The stock has widened from farm gear to household goods. Olive wood mortars and salad bowls share the shelves with boards and cutlery. Esparto lamps and mirrors hang beside planters and rugs, and esparto blinds are cut to order. Wicker trunks and picnic baskets sit next to palmito stools and children's chairs. The address is Calle Jáudenes 3, and the shop also sells through its own website.
Family-run ham and charcuterie specialist in Granada's San Matias-Realejo quarter, on Calle Santa Escolastica, dating to 1927. Hams are cured at the family's own drying facility in Portugos in the Alpujarra; also sells cheese, preserves and wine.
Best for Spanish ham, cheese, wine, and regional preserves
Jamonerias Casa Diego is a family-run charcuterie and ham specialist in Granada's San Matias-Realejo neighborhood, on Calle Santa Escolastica. The business dates to 1927, when the current owners' great-grandfather started it, and it has passed down through the family since. It specializes in serrano and Iberian ham along with homemade charcuterie, selling meats, cheeses, sausages, oils, pickled vegetables, preserves and wine. Its hams are cured at the family's own drying facility in Portugos, a village in the Alpujarra region south of Granada.
The Beas Bimbela family has cut taracea inlay in Granada since 1948, now into a fourth generation working from a workshop on Calle Santa Rosalia. They assemble marquetry board games, jewellery boxes and wedding keepsakes from tessellated wood, bone and metal.
Benito Ferrer opened this guitar workshop on the Cuesta de Gomerez in 1875, and four generations on it still builds guitars, bandurrias, lutes and castanets by hand. Eduardo Ferrer trained a generation of Granada luthiers and taught guitar-making to Yamaha's craftsmen in the 1960s.
Ctra de Murcia, 166, Granada (the Fajalauza name and glaze style originate from the Puerta de Fajalauza in the Albaicín)
Cerámica Fajalauza is a working Granada pottery documented back to 1517 and passed down through generations of the same family, now run as a foundation after founder Cecilio Morales Moreno's death. The factory and shop sell hand-painted tableware and decorative vases in the traditional blue-and-green Fajalauza glaze, take custom commissions, and offer pottery workshops.
Best for Fajalauza-glaze tableware, vases, custom commissions and pottery workshops
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