About Tenerife
The Art of Strolling in Puerto de la Cruz
The streets between Calle Puerto Viejo and the coast are far quieter and home to pastel cottages, hidden restaurants and lesser known plazas. […]
Food & Drink
Food & Drink
Creatively Colonial, the Restaurant at the Hotel Rural Victoria
The Hotel Rural Victoria and restaurant has enough personality to make dinner there an interesting and slightly different experience. […]
Food & Drink
Perfect Pizzas at Pizzeria Rugantino in Garachico
Rugantino is no run of the mill pizzeria. There are original paintings for sale on the wall (a not uncommon feature); also for sale was a water fountain… […]
Food & Drink
The Simple and Unsophisticated World of Traditional Canarian Cuisine
A friend visiting the Canary Islands for the first time told us about a meal she’d just eaten in a traditional restaurant. She wasn’t impressed… […]
Food & Drink
Have You Tried Gofio Amasado on Tenerife?
Anyone who has been to a romería on Tenerife, where food and drink is handed out from the back of beautifully decorated carts, will probably have had gofio amasado… […]
About Tenerife
Eating in an Authentic Guachinche
Whilst guachinches come in all shapes and sizes, if the one you’re in looks like a restaurant and has a menu, the chances are it is a restaurant, not a guachinche. […]
Culture
Wine Tasting at the Award Winning Bodegas CHP
As few things ring our bell more loudly than being introduced to the best of the Canary Islands producers, we went along to Bodegas CHP to get to the roots of the family’s vinicultural success… […]
Food & Drink
Have You Tried Churros de Pescado on Tenerife?
Churros de pescado is a sort of Spanish mini version of the great British dish, with a slight variation or two. […]
Food & Drink
Eating Cheaply on Tenerife Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Quality
Looking back I realise that the culinary agenda we inadvertently put together covered quite a diverse range of cheap local eating, but not the sort of cheap… […]
About Tenerife
Sardines and Salsa, Sounds and Smells of the Real Tenerife
The truth is we didn’t want to go to the Sardinada in Puerto de la Cruz. Two days of hiking in summer temperatures in the Anaga Mountains and then Teide… […]