A spate of travel blogs about Tenerife following an organised blog trip by a UK low cost airline had me pondering about authentic Canarian food on Tenerife. The line in one of the blogs which prompted this bout of pondering was this:
A spate of travel blogs about Tenerife following an organised blog trip by a UK low cost airline had me pondering about authentic Canarian food on Tenerife. The line in one of the blogs which prompted this bout of pondering was this:
For anyone interested in munching their way through a meal with a completely Canarian flavour, these are our suggestions of distinctly Canarian dishes to order.
The guachinche Richard Ayoade and Lena Dunham visited was one of the posher, more sanitised versions but the dishes they chose represented a good mix of the type of food regularly served in guachinches.
I have never asked for egg and chips in a restaurant on Tenerife. Yet I've lost count of the number of times I've ended up with just that in Canarian restaurants.
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...
One of the most vibrant on display is vieja, one of the most popular fishes of the Canary Islands; some claim that it is in fact the Canarios' favourite fish.
Tucked up a side street, Meson Los Gemelos is an inviting restaurant; leafy hanging ferns, a semi-open courtyard and rustic farming implements on whitewashed...
From the outside La Bodeguita de Enfrente looks intimate and quaint, but inside is a warren of rooms that gives it the Tardis effect. The décor is rustic and...
El Rincón de Roberto is one of those places that we immediately warmed to. Fireplace aside, its décor ticks all the right boxes for what you expect in a tasca – rustic, cosily sized, beamed wooden ceiling...
Guachinches are rough 'n' ready makeshift restaurants that are often set up in someone's garage, but they can pretty much turn up anywhere – in the middle of banana plantations, in someone's courtyard, in gardens.