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.
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.
“Is there a market near to...(insert location of choice) on Tenerife?” is a question we see asked a lot online. The answer isn't as simple as a 'yes' or 'no'. Before any answer can be given, there's another question to be asked.
“Soy canario, no soy español.” “I’m Canarian, I’m not Spanish.” It’s something we’ve been proudly told countless times over the years in the Canary Islands. When the person saying it has referred to me as being English I usually respond with a counter “soy escocés, no soy inglés” (“I’m Scottish, I’m not English”) which usually...
Puerto de la Cruz is a three star town. The streets are dirty. The gardens are uncared for. And in ‘Puerto de la Cruz, parte de ti’ (part of you) it has a promotional slogan which doesn’t make any sense. Wow! I won’t be going to a place like that anytime soon, it sounds like a dump. Wait a minute… I live there. I don’t often read...
It was the sort of gastronomic scene which has some visitors, and even people on other Canary Islands, dismissing the food on Tenerife as being not very good...
How can you tell the difference between a travel article/blog by a writer who has visited the places on Tenerife they've written about and one by someone who hasn't?
Gofio is one of those strange ingredients every Tinerfeño grows up with, yet many of the millions of visitors who pass through Tenerife are totally unaware of its existence.
I looked at the unimaginative choice before me and my heart sank – dry looking fillets of fish, stodgy pasta, curled meat thinner than my shoe leather.
Today, La Papa Antigua de Canarias is considered a gourmet delicacy in the kitchens of the island's top chefs and is featured on all the best menus...
Consigning pesticides and fertilizers to the past, Tino and his dad are blazing a trail for high quality, low quantity, organic vegetables and have cultivated a new market in miniature designer vegetables.