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Santa Cruz de La Palma · Steak and grill · Fish and seafood · Lunch
Juan Mayor 42, 38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma
Mon–Sat 12:30–23:00; Sun 12:30–17:30
Chipi Chipi grew from a small neighborhood shop into a restaurant surrounded by plants and flowers in Velhoco, above Santa Cruz de La Palma. The Yanes-Herrera family arrived from Tigalate in the late 1950s and began selling provisions while serving tapas and wine to neighbors. Cards, dominoes, storytelling and music were part of those early gatherings. A popular song performed there supplied the restaurant's name, and the business dates its beginnings to January 1960. As it expanded, a grill, dining room, terrace and individual private dining spaces were added. A later redesign by Palmero artist Luis Morera preserved the original character. Today, grilled meat remains a central part of the menu. Beef chops, pork ribs and chops, chicken, rabbit and kid goat appear alongside sausages and the island's sweet blood sausage. The accompaniments include wrinkled potatoes, fries, red mojo and alioli. Traditional starters such as gofio escaldado, chicharrones, goat cheese and grilled cheese give the meal a distinctly local foundation. Soups include Canarian puchero, chickpea soup and picadillo soup, while cod with onions provides a fish option. Desserts continue the island theme with bienmesabe, Príncipe Alberto, quesillo and gofio mousse, together with homemade cheesecake and lemon cream. The different dining areas accommodate both ordinary meals and more private gatherings. Weddings, baptisms, communions and company dinners are among the occasions the restaurant organizes. Parking includes spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility. Guests with allergies or intolerances are asked to consult the staff about the ingredients in individual dishes, and tables can be reserved by telephone.
Breña Alta · Fish and seafood · Seating indoors · Seating outdoors
Subida de la Concepción, 2, 38710 Breña Alta
Tue–Sat 13:00–23:00; Mon, Sun Closed
Casa Osmunda occupies a traditional house on the ascent towards La Concepción in Breña Alta. Before becoming a restaurant, the building served as a resting place for merchants travelling between Santa Cruz de La Palma and Los Llanos. Its name preserves the memory of Doña Osmunda, the woman who looked after the house. The restaurant opened in May 2007, retaining the hipped roof, porch and interior walls of volcanic stone. Two dining rooms and a terrace offer different settings, while a former water cistern with a vaulted ceiling provides a room for private celebrations. The cooking takes Canarian recipes as its starting point and adds contemporary combinations of ingredients. The menu moves from local cheeses and aubergine with cane syrup to rabbit in salmorejo tucked inside potatoes. Fish dishes include tuna with passion fruit, pumpkin and teriyaki, and the kitchen also offers fresh fish suggestions. Beef ribs, braised pork cheek and beef fillet give the meat section a substantial presence. Tropical fruit appears repeatedly, including in an avocado, prawn and mango preparation dressed with passion fruit. Desserts continue that interest in contrasting flavors, with cheese foam and passion fruit, warm cheesecake, and an avocado and fresh cheese cream with thyme oil and mango. A separate children's selection includes veal escalope and chicken with fries. The wine collection is another part of the house's identity, with staff available to suggest a bottle alongside the chosen dishes.
Santa Cruz de La Palma · Fish and seafood · Cakes and pastries · Cafe
Placeta de Borrero 1, 38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma
La Placeta occupies a traditional Canarian house beside Placeta de Borrero in central Santa Cruz de La Palma. Its entrance faces the small square, while the back belongs to the city's familiar waterfront balconies. The building brings together a terrace, an indoor bistro and restaurant rooms, giving visitors several ways to enjoy the same address. There is also a private room for company meals and celebrations. David Leiva Ruiz, originally from Valls in Tarragona, has directed the business since August 2007. His approach combines carefully chosen ingredients with attentive service, whether guests order a sandwich, share tapas or settle down for a larger meal. The terrace has its own selection of sandwiches, tapas and cakes, and diners can also choose meat, fish and vegetarian dishes from the restaurant menu. Inside the bistro, original walls and ceilings remain part of the setting. A wooden counter, stools, small tables and photographs of historic Santa Cruz give this room a different character from the open square. Two tables stand beside the windows, and the coffee selection includes the local coffee drink with liqueur. Among the restaurant's featured dishes are salmon and avocado tartare and beef tenderloin tips in a creamy cognac sauce with mushrooms and fries. A warm chocolate fondant served with ice cream is one of its signature desserts. The kitchen can adapt dishes for food intolerances and allergies. With both lighter food and a full restaurant menu available, La Placeta suits anything from a pause during a walk through town to a planned gathering with friends.
Santa Cruz de La Palma · Spanish · Fish and seafood · Takes reservations
Avenida Marítima 51, 38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma
La Isla de Goya combines family roots in Aragón with the ingredients and food traditions of La Palma. Established in May 2015, it stands on Avenida Marítima in Santa Cruz de La Palma, close to the city's distinctive balconies. The approach is informal, with tapas and larger sharing portions that let a table explore several dishes together. Its identity comes from that meeting of mainland and island cooking rather than from a single specialty. Migas Aragonesas bring the shepherding tradition of bread and chorizo to the menu, while grilled island cheese and wrinkled potatoes with mojo give the selection a Canarian accent. Small plates include padrón peppers, shrimp fritters and piquillo peppers filled with marinated tuna. There are cheese and Iberian ham boards, alongside a substantial range of topped toasts. One combines aubergine, courgette, tomato and grilled smoked Palmero cheese with hazelnut and basil pesto; another pairs local fresh cheese and grilled vegetables with smoked salmon and toasted almonds. Seafood continues through the casserole and sharing sections, with clams, mussels, prawns and small fried fish. Meatballs with mushrooms, cuttlefish and prawns bring land and sea together in one dish. Vegetable choices include a grilled vegetable platter and a warm salad with curry vegetables and chia seeds. Eggs appear in several combinations with potatoes, vegetables, ham or chorizo. A separate children's menu offers smaller, straightforward meals. The restaurant encourages guests to ask for recommendations, and its menu is available in Spanish, English and German. It is a useful address for companions who enjoy ordering collectively and comparing different regional flavors.
El Paso · Spanish · Mediterranean · Fish and seafood
Carretera General Empalme Dos Pinos, 57, 38750 El Paso
Franchipani stands beside the main road between El Paso and Los Llanos de Aridane, near the Urbanización Celta bus stop. Heidy van de Vorst and Rüdiger Wastl opened the restaurant in December 1998, creating a place where Spanish and Mediterranean cooking meets influences gathered further afield. Heidy comes from near Eindhoven and developed her approach in the Netherlands before working with the flavors of Bonaire and Puerto Rico. An intensive cooking course in Thailand added another strand to her experience with spice and unfamiliar ingredients. She arrived on La Palma in the spring of the restaurant's opening year. Her cooking draws on fresh regional produce, including organic vegetables, with an emphasis on the origins of meat and fish. The restaurant presents both a regular menu and changing weekly dishes. Main courses can be ordered in smaller portions, giving guests flexibility in putting together a meal. Rüdiger leads the service and looks after the wines, selecting bottles from small producers and maintaining personal relationships with many of the winemakers. Family wineries on La Palma are central to the selection, joined by reds, whites and rosés from mainland Spain. Staff help guests choose an aperitif, a wine to accompany the food or a drink to finish. The house also invites diners to enjoy the sunset with a glass of wine or beer. A private car park serves guests arriving by road, while the nearby bus stop provides another option for reaching this independently operated restaurant.
Moya · Vegetarian · Vegan · Takes reservations
Carretera la Costa 48, 35413 Moya
Mon–Sun 09:00–23:00
Nativo Las Palmas brings internationally influenced cooking to the northern coast of Gran Canaria, in the municipality of Moya. Its setting is Casa Jacío, a restored house dating from 1902 with views towards the bay. The restaurant occupies the former horse stables, where thick stone walls connect the present dining space with the building’s earlier life. Balinese inspired design and a swimming pool give the property a different character from a conventional village restaurant. The kitchen combines traditional ideas with contemporary influences gathered through travel. Seasonal ingredients and local sourcing guide the approach where possible, while the selection includes vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options. Drinks range from regional wines to fresh juices and smoothies, alongside cocktails that reinterpret familiar classics. The brunch menu brings together several distinct preparations. A yoghurt and passion fruit bowl comes with strawberries flambéed in orange liqueur, while another bowl combines fresh cheese, avocado, cherry tomatoes and basil with a Japanese dressing. Bread choices include focaccia with slowly cooked roast beef, onion, grapes and red pepper jam, or a soft roll with black olive aioli, avocado, tomato and potato omelette. A vegan version replaces the omelette with a plant based alternative. Sweet dishes include Swiss bread torrija and a small apple cake with pistachio. Nativo also hosts concerts, DJ sessions and yoga brunch events, and welcomes enquiries about private celebrations. Pets are welcome throughout the restaurant and pool space. Tables can be reserved directly with the venue.
Firgas · Mediterranean · Steak and grill · Fish and seafood
Calle José Santos 2, 35430 Firgas
Azafrán brings Mediterranean cooking with Canarian roots to Calle José Santos in Firgas. Chef José Soto leads the kitchen, drawing on more than twenty years of experience and an interest in giving familiar regional flavours a contemporary presentation. Local ingredients, traditional recipes and modern technique form the basis of the food, with dishes moving between meat, seafood and vegetables. The starters include roasted burrata with confit tomato, rocket, balsamic dressing and pine nuts, and octopus with potatoes and smoked paprika mayonnaise. Another option pairs puff pastry with salmon curry and grilled asparagus. Beef tartare is cut by hand and prepared at the table, while beef cheek and foie croquettes come with green apple and ginger. Rice dishes provide several possible centres for a meal: one uses scarlet prawns and a concentrated seafood stock, another combines the day's fish with squid and mussels, and a creamy version brings together Iberian pork and roasted peppers. The main courses also include beef cheek with mushrooms and saffron potatoes, veal ragù cannelloni and the chef's version of traditional meatballs. Grilled sea bass with butter, lemon and capers sits alongside beef fillet and Iberian pork cuts. Desserts range from tiramisu and cheesecake to cream filled crêpes and profiteroles with vanilla foam and hot chocolate. The restaurant takes table reservations, making it a possible stop for visitors who want to arrange a meal in Firgas before setting out from Moya.
Firgas · Spanish · Fish and seafood · Cafe
Carretera de Cambalud 1, 35432 Firgas
Mon–Fri 10:00–16:00, 19:00–00:00; Sat–Sun 10:00–00:00
Bar Santana stands on Carretera de Cambalud in the municipality of Firgas, offering traditional Spanish food, regional dishes and a straightforward cafe and bar service. Fish and squid are among the kitchen's highlighted choices, while the broader offer also includes quick meals and breakfast. Coffee provides a simpler reason to stop when a full meal is not needed. The restaurant accepts table reservations by telephone and prepares food to take away, so visitors can choose between eating there and bringing a meal back with them. Free Wi-Fi is available during a visit. Payment options include cash, contactless transactions and several major credit and debit cards. These practical details make it possible to plan a stop without needing a formal dining occasion. Cambalud belongs to Firgas, a municipality whose cooking draws on its agricultural and livestock traditions. Watercress, potatoes, vegetables, local cheese and meat all form part of that wider food culture. The town is also associated with mineral water and with gofio, the flour made from roasted grain that appears in Canarian cooking. The surrounding villages give visitors several reasons to explore this part of northern Gran Canaria. For guests staying around Moya, the bar offers a nearby option centred on familiar Spanish food and direct contact with the restaurant. Breakfast, coffee, cooked dishes and takeaway give visitors several ways to plan a stop.
Arucas · Steak and grill · Fish and seafood · Seating indoors
Pasaje Ter 17, 35412 Arucas
Wed–Thu 13:00–17:00, 20:00–23:00; Fri–Sat 13:00–17:00, 20:00–23:30; Sun 12:30–17:00
Casa Brito occupies Pasaje Ter in Visvique, in the municipality of Arucas. José González Brito opened the restaurant at the end of 1998, giving it a rustic interior with timber beams, exposed brick and two dining areas. There is also a separate bar where Iberian ham and island cheeses feature. A wood fired grill in the main dining room is central to the kitchen. The meat selection ranges from Galician beef and Simmental cuts to Angus from Uruguay or Argentina and Wagyu from Japan or Chile. Iberian pork appears as secreto, presa and pluma, alongside cheeks cooked in their own juices. Lamb chops and slowly cooked shoulders broaden the choice beyond beef. The rest of the menu gives a table plenty to share before the main course. Starters include island cheeses from small producers, house croquettes, octopus in tempura and a spiced lamb pastry with orange honey. Vegetables grilled with black truffle oil sit beside salads with avocado, watercress or tuna belly. Fish dishes include wreckfish with coriander sauce and prawns, cod in Biscayan sauce and grilled salmon with mustard and dill. For dessert, the restaurant highlights burnt rice pudding and homemade guava ice cream. The dining rooms are air conditioned, and the house lists parking, Wi-Fi, card payment and a private room among its facilities. Reservation requests are accepted, with confirmation dependent on available space; the restaurant advises allowing up to a day for a reply. It is a restaurant to consider when a meal built around grilled meat is the main purpose of the outing.
Arucas · Steak and grill · Fish and seafood · Seating outdoors
Calle Párroco Morales 4, 35400 Arucas
Wed 18:00–23:00; Thu 13:00–23:00; Fri–Sat 13:00–02:00; Sun 13:00–23:00
Emblemática Rooftop is an outdoor restaurant on Calle Párroco Morales in the centre of Arucas, with views towards the Church of San Juan Bautista. The setting gives the meal a close connection to the town's most recognisable landmark, while the kitchen brings Canarian references together with seafood, rice and grilled meat. Chef Alberto Aparicio's version of papas arrugadas is one of the signature dishes: the potatoes are filled with red mojo, green mojo and mango mojo, giving a familiar island preparation several different flavours. A dry black rice dish combines squid and prawns with an aioli flavoured with aromatic herbs. For meat, the restaurant highlights a Uruguayan Angus ribeye cooked over the embers in its Pujadas Grill oven. These three dishes show the range of the cooking, from a local potato speciality to seafood rice and a substantial grilled cut. The terrace is also offered for private celebrations, with an events dossier available for people arranging a special gathering. Table reservations can be made directly with the restaurant. The address is in the historic centre, where the surrounding streets provide an opportunity to explore Arucas before or after eating. Nearby attractions include Plaza de San Juan, the Casa de la Cultura and the municipal park. For visitors based near Moya, the rooftop combines a restaurant visit with time in another northern Gran Canaria town, with the church view giving the terrace its particular sense of place.
Maspalomas · Spanish · Mediterranean
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Calle Albert Einstein, s/n, Parcela 34, 35100 Maspalomas
Palm Oasis Restaurant is reserved for guests staying at Palm Oasis Maspalomas, because access to the hotel is limited to its residents. It is the property's own dining option, set within a resort of gardens, coconut trees and palms on a small hill in southern Gran Canaria. For guests already staying here, it offers a convenient way to include restaurant meals in a holiday based around an apartment. The main daily services are buffet breakfast and buffet dinner. The published breakfast window runs from 8am to 10am, with dinner from 6.30pm to 10pm. Live cooking and themed evenings give the restaurant a changing rhythm over the week. Tuesday is advertised as Canary Night, while Friday brings a barbecue theme, so different evenings can offer a different focus within the same hotel. Sunday has its own daytime feature: a paella show from noon. This is worth checking with reception when planning a day around the pool or an excursion, as the current programme determines what is taking place during a particular stay. The hotel also has a separate pool bar and Pub Oasis, offering guests other places for a drink without leaving the grounds. Ask the hotel which meals are included in your booking and which require a separate arrangement, especially if your apartment stay is organised through another provider. Reception can also confirm the week's programme, service times and dietary requirements. These practical details help guests choose between the restaurant's buffet evenings, a themed event and the flexibility of their apartment kitchen.
Playa del Inglés
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Avenida de Gran Canaria 36, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Sawadee is one of three Thai restaurants of the same name in the south of Gran Canaria - the others are in Meloneras and San Agustín. This one is on Avenida de Gran Canaria in Playa del Inglés. Thai chefs cook in the style of Isaan, the north-east of Thailand: simple, strong flavors from fresh herbs, lime and fish sauce, with little sugar or butter. Pad thai, green curry (gaeng kiew waan) and pineapple fried rice are among the favorites, and a house platter brings several dishes together. The terrace is colorful and relaxed, the bar mixes cocktails, and everything on the menu can also be taken away.
Playa del Inglés
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Avenida de Tirajana 15, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Buffet Las Camelias on Avenida de Tirajana has been feeding Playa del Inglés for more than fifty years, and it does so on a grand scale: an all-you-can-eat buffet of over 300 Canarian, Spanish and international dishes. Much of it is cooked in front of you. At the show-cooking stations guests choose their ingredients and watch them go onto the grill, and around them are stations for grilled fish and seafood, freshly cooked shellfish, paella, Iberian cold cuts and cheeses, Italian and Tex-Mex dishes, grilled meats, homemade desserts and soft-serve ice cream. It is a family place with a terrace, its own parking and step-free access.
Playa del Inglés
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Avenida del Arquitecto Manuel de la Peña Suárez 30, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Mon–Fri 17:00–00:00; Sat–Sun 13:00–00:00
Greek Village has been cooking Greek food in the Santa Clara area of Playa del Inglés for more than twenty years. It grew out of a Greek taverna in San Agustín and brought the same recipes a few kilometers along the coast. The menu is the classic taverna one: gyros, kleftiko - lamb roasted slowly until it falls off the bone - moussaka and grilled meats, with feta, Greek yogurt and Kalamata olives alongside, and a list of Greek wines to go with them. There is a children's menu. On weekdays the kitchen opens in the evening, at weekends from lunchtime; tables can be booked online at any hour, or by phone while the restaurant is open.
Playa del Inglés
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Avenida Sargentos Provisionales 9, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Mon–Sun 11:00–01:30
El Chuletón is a grill on Avenida Sargentos Provisionales in Playa del Inglés, and its name says what matters most: a chuletón is a thick, bone-in rib steak cut for the grill. Meat comes first on the menu, with fish, pizza and pasta for anyone at the table who wants something else. The kitchen stays open for a long day - from late morning until well after midnight - which makes it an easy choice after an afternoon on the beach or before a night out in Playa del Inglés.
Playa del Inglés
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Avenida de Tirajana 36, Edificio Los Molinos, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Porta Pizza is a pizzeria chain from Gran Canaria, and its Playa del Inglés branch is in the Los Molinos building on Avenida de Tirajana. The menu is long on pizza, made with carefully chosen ingredients, and there are sandwiches and hot dogs as well. It is a practical address for an evening at the apartment: the pizzas can be eaten in, taken away or delivered. On weekdays it opens for lunch and again in the evening until midnight; at weekends and on holidays the kitchen does not close in between.
Costa Calma
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Calle la Parábola 3, 35627 Costa Calma
kapé is a small coffee house tucked behind the shopping area of Costa Calma that does something no one else on the island does: it serves only coffee grown on Fuerteventura, roasted on the premises. On roasting days you can watch and ask, and the espresso, cappuccino and cold brew that come out of it are the reason people from other resorts drive over. It is also the breakfast place of Costa Calma - you put your own plate together from a list of small dishes, German and Spanish side by side, with waffles, cheesecake and croissants for the sweet half of the table, and tapas, sandwiches and burgers later on. Open weekdays only, nine to five, so plan it for a weekday morning.
Costa Calma · Spanish · Lunch · Dinner
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Calle Risco Blanco, 35627 Costa Calma
Mon 12:30–22:00; Tue 12:30–22:00; Wed 12:30–22:00; Thu 12:30–22:00; Fri 12:30–22:00; Sat 12:30–22:00; Sun 12:30–22:00
El Bar de Marko stands on Calle Risco Blanco in Costa Calma, and by review count it is the best-known place to eat in the town. It keeps no website, so nothing here describes the kitchen — we can point at no source for it, and a guess would be worse than silence. What can be said is the shape of its week, and it is a simple one: half past twelve to ten at night, every day, with no closing day and no break between lunch and dinner. On a resort coast where a good many kitchens shut for the afternoon and take a day off in the week, a house that never does either is the reliable option — the answer when it is four in the afternoon, or when it is Monday. Calle Risco Blanco is named after the white cliff, which is what risco blanco means, and it runs back from the beach road into the town rather than along the front. Costa Calma lies at the neck of the Jandía peninsula in southern Fuerteventura, about an hour from the airport at Puerto del Rosario and twenty minutes from Morro Jable. The telephone is the way to ask what is on and to book. You will find El Bar de Marko on Calle Risco Blanco, 35627 Costa Calma.
Costa Calma · Spanish · Mediterranean · Breakfast
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Calle Roque del Morro, 35627 Costa Calma
Mon 10:30–22:30; Tue 10:30–22:30; Wed 10:30–22:30; Thu 10:30–22:30; Fri 10:30–22:30; Sat 10:30–22:30; Sun 10:30–22:30
Restaurante Costa Beach is on Calle Roque del Morro in Costa Calma. It keeps no website, so nothing is written here about what it serves; the telephone number is the way to ask. The hours are the useful part. It opens at half past ten in the morning and closes at half past ten at night, every day of the week, without a closing day and without the afternoon break that most Spanish kitchens take. Twelve hours straight through covers a late breakfast, a lunch at three, and a dinner — and on this coast the middle of that is the hard slot to fill. Roque del Morro is one of the streets running through the town between the FV-2 coast road and the beach. Costa Calma is laid out as a resort rather than as a village: it grew from nothing in the 1980s along the Playa de Sotavento, and the streets are named after the rocks and points of the peninsula. The town sits at the narrowest part of Fuerteventura, where the island is barely five kilometres across, with the Atlantic on both sides and the wind coming over from the east almost every day. That wind is the reason the beach here is famous and the reason an inland street can be a good deal more comfortable to eat in than the front, particularly in the afternoon. You will find Restaurante Costa Beach on Calle Roque del Morro, 35627 Costa Calma.
Costa Calma · Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
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Punta los Molinillos, 35628 Costa Calma
Mon 09:00–00:00; Tue 09:00–00:00; Wed 09:00–00:00; Thu 09:00–00:00; Fri 09:00–00:00; Sat 09:00–00:00; Sun 09:00–00:00
Rapa Nui is a surf bar on Punta los Molinillos in Costa Calma, and it is more than a place to eat: alongside the food and drink it runs a surf school and Segway excursions, and publishes a weekly programme of what is on. That combination is the point of it — the bar is the meeting place for the school rather than a restaurant that happens to have boards outside. It is open from nine in the morning until midnight, every day of the week, which covers breakfast before a lesson and a drink long after one. The setting explains the business. Costa Calma sits on the Jandía peninsula in the far south of Fuerteventura, on the Playa de Sotavento — a stretch of white sand and shallow lagoon several kilometres long. The trade winds blow across it almost without pause, which is why this coast is one of the best-known windsurfing and kitesurfing places in Europe and why a surf school sits on the beach road rather than in the town. Rapa Nui is the Polynesian name for Easter Island, which is an odd flag to plant in the Atlantic and tells you the register the bar is going for. The weekly programme is the thing to look at before arriving: what happens here changes by the day, and turning up on the wrong one means a quiet bar rather than the place the reviews describe. You will find Rapa Nui at Punta los Molinillos, 35628 Costa Calma.
Costa Calma · Italian · Pizza · Lunch
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Calle Punta Pesebre, 35627 Costa Calma
Mon Closed; Tue Closed; Wed 13:00–22:30; Thu 13:00–22:30; Fri 13:00–22:30; Sat 13:00–22:30; Sun 13:00–22:30
L'AperiPizza is an Italian pizzeria in the Centro Comercial Plaza on Calle Punta Pesebre in Costa Calma, in the municipality of Pájara on Fuerteventura. Its own line for what it does is the best summary anyone could write: quality Italian pizza, because life is too short to eat a bad one. The numbers behind that are unusually good. Ninety-eight per cent of two hundred and forty-seven people recommend it, and the price band is the lowest of the three the island's restaurants are sorted into — a combination that is rare anywhere and rarer on a resort coast. There is seating outdoors and pizza can be collected at the kerb. The hours want reading before you set out. It is closed on Monday and on Tuesday, both. From Wednesday to Sunday it opens at one in the afternoon and runs to half past ten at night without a break. Two closing days in a row is unusual here and catches people out at the start of a week's holiday. Costa Calma sits at the neck of the Jandía peninsula in the south of Fuerteventura, where the island narrows to a few kilometres between two coasts. The Centro Comercial Plaza is one of the small shopping centres set back from the beach road, so this is an address to walk to from the town rather than one you pass on the front — worth knowing, because it is easy to miss from the FV-2. You will find L'AperiPizza at Calle Punta Pesebre, Centro Comercial Plaza, Local D2, 35627 Costa Calma.
Costa Calma · Steak and grill · Lunch · Dinner
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Calle L.T.U., 35627 Costa Calma
Mon 13:00–23:00; Tue 13:00–23:00; Wed 13:00–23:00; Thu 13:00–23:00; Fri 13:00–23:00; Sat 13:00–23:00; Sun 17:00–22:30
Steak House San Borondón stands on Calle L.T.U. in Costa Calma. It keeps no website, so what it serves beyond the steak in its name is not described here. The name is worth knowing, because it is not a family name. San Borondón is the phantom eighth island of the Canaries — a landmass that generations of islanders reported seeing on the western horizon, that appeared on Spanish charts for three centuries, and that several expeditions sailed out to find and never did. It is now understood to have been a mirage. Naming a restaurant after it is a local joke of a particular kind. The hours differ at the weekend, which is the practical thing to note. Monday to Saturday it opens at one in the afternoon and runs to eleven at night, straight through. On Sunday it opens only at five in the evening and closes at half past ten — so there is no Sunday lunch here. A steak house is a reasonable thing to find here rather than an incongruous one. Fuerteventura has almost no agriculture — the island is dry enough that goats are most of what it raises — so meat is shipped in on the same boats as everything else, and a house that makes beef its subject is making a choice rather than using what is to hand. Costa Calma is on the Jandía peninsula in the south of Fuerteventura, and the restaurant is a few minutes from the Playa de Sotavento, the long shallow lagoon beach that the town was built for. You will find Steak House San Borondón on Calle L.T.U., 35627 Costa Calma.
Mácher · Fish and seafood · Lunch · Dinner
Carretera Mácher 60, 35572 Mácher
La Tegala is chef and owner Daniel Jiménez's interpretation of Canarian cooking in Mácher. The restaurant builds its identity around the archipelago's producers, volcanic landscapes and Atlantic ingredients, bringing traditional recipes into a contemporary tasting menu format. Jiménez works with head chef Loren Layos, while maître Sergio Mulas and sommelier Alessandra Cavallaro guide the dining room and wine service. The kitchen combines local produce with techniques and seasonings from further afield. Its menus range from the more extensive Maresía to La Tegala and La Tegala 2.0, alongside the more informal Ventorrillo selection. Across these menus, island cheeses, goat, rabbit, seafood and vegetables appear in combinations that connect familiar ingredients with unexpected textures. Examples include octopus with aubergine and a Japanese and Canarian barbecue treatment, sea bass with mango and beetroot, and grilled wreckfish with coconut soup, roasted corn and sweet potato. Rabbit in salmorejo is accompanied by vegetables and goat yogurt, while a goat taco uses a corn and charcoal shell. The Maresía sequence explores goat through several preparations as well as moray, shellfish and fish. Sweet courses include coriander sorbet with white chocolate and mango, and crème brûlée with tonka bean, sweet potato and palm honey. Wine pairings draw on small Canarian wineries and volcanic wines. The dining team explains the origins and ideas behind the dishes as the meal progresses. Tables can be requested through the restaurant's online reservation service or by telephone.
Puerto del Carmen · Spanish · Steak and grill · Burgers
Calle Roque Nublo 5, 35510 Puerto del Carmen
La Cascada occupies a Canarian house on Calle Roque Nublo in Puerto del Carmen, with several dining spaces gathered around one restaurant. Its cooking combines Spanish and international influences, with grilled meat as a particular speciality and local seasonal ingredients central to the kitchen's approach. Cristóbal Sánchez leads the family business, drawing on more than two decades of hospitality experience. Behind the dining room and kitchen is a larger team covering purchasing, stores, fish preparation and butchery. The restaurant presents its main Cascada room as a bright space behind large windows, serving international cooking with references to the Canary Islands. La Bodega preserves the character of the original house, including an old well and barrels, and focuses on popular cooking. It accommodates up to eighty guests, with two smaller rooms for twenty offering a more intimate setting. A further Street Food area brings together handmade burgers and dishes inspired by international travel, with vintage decoration and room for fifty diners. These different spaces give the restaurant scope for ordinary meals, family gatherings and larger celebrations within the same address. Group and event enquiries are handled directly with the team. Reservations are accepted for parties of eight or more; smaller parties are welcomed in order of arrival. The kitchen describes its work as a combination of traditional cooking and contemporary methods, supported by modern equipment for precise preparation. The result is a restaurant with a strong grill identity and several ways to gather around the table.
Arrecife · Fish and seafood · Seating indoors · Seating outdoors
Avenida Olof Palme s/n, Marina Lanzarote, local B-29, 35500 Arrecife
Lilium looks over Marina Lanzarote in Arrecife, combining a dining room and terrace with a kitchen devoted to contemporary Canarian food. Orlando Ortega and Sandra Guadalupe founded the restaurant in 2006, with Orlando leading the cooking and Sandra directing the dining room. Vegetables and fruit grown in volcanic soil, fish and shellfish from the islands' coasts, and selected meats provide the starting point. The kitchen draws on familiar island recipes while changing their presentation and combinations. Guests can choose between two tasting menus and a menu in which each diner selects a starter, main course and dessert. The longer Bruno sequence includes banana croquette, asparagus with scarlet prawn and apple, a fish sandwich, roast avocado, octopus with boiled mojo, fish and rabbit before dessert. Laura offers a shorter route through several of those ingredients. The selectable menu includes coastal noodles with Lanzarote scarlet prawns, stuffed rabbit leg with sweet black pudding and apple, and aged beef with almogrote and roasted pepper. Desserts continue the island theme with quesillo, gofio ice cream and tropical fruit. The tasting menus are served without substitutions; diners with allergies, intolerances or dietary restrictions are directed toward the selectable menu, where adaptations are easier. Alongside its cooking, the restaurant describes practical commitments to local purchasing, recycling, reducing plastics and renewable energy. Its marina setting places the water in view from the terrace, giving the meal a distinct connection to Arrecife's waterfront.
Vila Franca do Campo · Bakery · Cakes and pastries · Breakfast
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Rua do Penedo 20, 9680-146 Vila Franca do Campo
Mon 09:00–19:00; Tue 09:00–19:00; Wed 09:00–19:00; Thu 09:00–19:00; Fri 09:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–19:00; Sun 09:00–19:00
Queijadas do Morgado on the Rua do Penedo in Vila Franca do Campo makes one thing, and it is the thing this town is known for across the whole archipelago: the queijada da Vila. The house calls them the fantastic queijadas of Vila Franca do Campo, the only ones — and it is not really an exaggeration, because the recipe belongs to this town. A queijada da Vila is a small baked tart of egg, sugar and milk in a thin pastry case, wrapped in paper and sold by the dozen. Despite the name — queijo is cheese — there is no cheese in it. They are eaten as a mid-morning thing with coffee and they are what Azoreans carry back to family on the mainland, which is why the shop is set up for taking away rather than sitting down. It opens every day from nine in the morning to seven in the evening, with no closing day, which for an island bakery is unusual and useful — Sunday included. Vila Franca do Campo was the first capital of São Miguel until an earthquake and landslide destroyed it in 1522. It lies on the south coast, about twenty minutes east of Ribeira Chã along the coast road. You will find Queijadas do Morgado at Rua do Penedo 20, 9680-146 Vila Franca do Campo.
Água de Pau
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Rua da Caloura 15, 9560-206 Água de Pau
Adega Caloura is a restaurant in an old wine cellar in Caloura, the fishing hamlet below Água de Pau where the vineyards run down to the sea in stone-walled terraces. The vaulted room, the barrels and the candlelight make it the most atmospheric dinner on this stretch of the south coast, and it is small enough that a table is worth reserving. The kitchen is fish and seafood first: grilled tuna and tuna tartare when the boats bring it in, garlic prawns, octopus, with a couple of vegetarian plates and a long list of Azorean and mainland wines to go with the cellar. It opens only in the evening and only on some days of the week, which vary through the year - a phone call before driving down saves a wasted trip.
Água de Pau
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Rua da Caloura 20, 9560-226 Água de Pau
Bar Caloura sits right on the water at Caloura, the small harbor below Água de Pau on the south coast of São Miguel. It began in the 1980s as the place where the local fishermen met, and it has kept that spirit: informal, with a terrace over the sea where the sound of the waves comes with the meal. The kitchen is about fresh fish and seafood - limpets, prawns and the catch of the day from the grill - alongside Portuguese dishes. The restaurant is accessible by wheelchair, takes reservations and also does takeaway.
Água de Pau
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Rua do Paúl 26, 9560-246 Água de Pau
Pérola do Oceano is a family restaurant in the village of Água de Pau, a few minutes up the hill from Ribeira Chã, where the owner cooks and the dining room is papered with postcards, photographs and notes left by guests from all over the world - the decoration has grown for years and is half the reason people come back. The food is Azorean home cooking, unfussy and generous: fried chicharros, the small mackerel of the islands, baked octopus, crab and fried prawns to start, a grilled beef tenderloin for those who want meat, and for dessert bean pudding or the house ice cream. Prices are village prices. It suits a family evening more than a formal one.
Ribeira Grande · German home cooking · Fish and seafood · Lunch
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Rua Direita de Cima 41, 9600-221 Ribeira Grande
Mon Closed; Tue 12:00–15:00, 18:45–22:00; Wed 12:00–15:00, 18:45–22:00; Thu 12:00–15:00, 18:45–22:00; Fri 12:00–15:00, 18:45–22:00; Sat 12:00–15:00, 18:45–22:00; Sun 12:00–15:00
O Silva has been cooking on the Rua Direita de Cima in Ribeira Grande since 1979 — more than forty years of the same kitchen, run on family recipes handed down through the generations. Regional character, tradition and freshness are the three things the house names for itself, in that order. It is unusually specific about what it is known for, which saves a visitor guessing. The famous dish is the Bife à Silva. Then there is arroz de cherne com miolo de camarão — wreckfish rice with shrimp — the espetada de cherne com camarão, cavaco, and filetes de abrótea, fillets of forkbeard. Cherne and abrótea are deep-water fish of these islands and are not things you will have eaten at home. Food is also prepared to take away, which the house calls flavours at home. It is closed on Monday. Tuesday to Saturday it serves lunch from midday to three and dinner from a quarter to seven until ten; on Sunday there is lunch only. The Rua Direita de Cima runs through the old centre of Ribeira Grande, the island's second town, on the north coast about forty minutes from Ribeira Chã. The drive crosses the middle of São Miguel over the ridge, past the Lagoa do Fogo, which makes the journey there worth as much as the meal at the end of it. You will find O Silva at Rua Direita de Cima 41, 9600-221 Ribeira Grande.
Ribeira Grande · Fish and seafood · Vegetarian · Vegan
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Rua East Providence 68, 9600-524 Ribeira Grande
Mon 12:00–15:30, 19:00–22:00; Tue 12:00–15:30, 19:00–22:00; Wed Closed; Thu 12:00–15:30, 19:00–22:00; Fri 12:00–15:30, 19:00–22:00; Sat 12:00–15:30, 19:00–22:00; Sun 12:00–15:30, 19:00–22:00
Alabote stands on the Rua East Providence in Ribeira Grande, on the north coast of São Miguel. The building is the first thing the house talks about: an architecture built to hold contemporary, functional construction and the landscape together rather than to shut one out of the other, with the sunset as part of what you are there for. Fresh fish is what it stakes its name on — the best of the Azorean sea, as the house puts it, cooked carefully. An alabote is a halibut, so the name says the same thing. What sets it apart from most restaurants on the island is the breadth of the menu. Alongside meat and fish there are vegetarian and vegan dishes as a proper part of the card, and the traditional Azorean repertoire is kept as well. In an archipelago whose cooking runs on beef, pork and fish, a kitchen that treats a vegan diner as a guest rather than a problem is worth knowing about in advance. Service is in two sittings — midday to half past three, then seven to ten — and it is closed on Wednesday. Ribeira Grande is the island's second town, about twenty minutes over the ridge from Ponta Delgada and forty from Ribeira Chã. You will find Alabote at Rua East Providence 68, 9600-524 Ribeira Grande.
Ponta Delgada · Cafe · Lunch · Dinner
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Rua Antonio Jose DAlmeida 8, 9500-053 Ponta Delgada
Mon 11:00–00:00; Tue 11:00–00:00; Wed Closed; Thu 11:00–00:00; Fri 11:00–00:00; Sat 11:00–00:00; Sun 11:00–00:00
Louvre Michaelense stands on the Rua António José d'Almeida in the middle of Ponta Delgada, the capital of São Miguel. The house keeps no website, so nothing here describes what it serves; what can be set down is the address, the hours and the name. The name is worth a sentence. Michaelense is the adjective for São Miguel — a person or a thing of this island — so the house calls itself the island's Louvre, which is a large claim made with a straight face and tells you it is a room that holds things as much as it is a place to sit. The hours describe an all-day room rather than a restaurant with services: eleven in the morning until midnight, without a break, six days a week. It is closed on Wednesday, which is the one thing to plan around. Thirteen hours in a stretch means a coffee at three in the afternoon and something at eleven at night are equally possible, and in a town where most kitchens shut between lunch and dinner that is the point. Ponta Delgada is about half an hour west of Ribeira Chã along the south coast, and this street is in the old centre, a few minutes from the harbour front and the city gates. You will find Louvre Michaelense at Rua António José d'Almeida 8, 9500-053 Ponta Delgada.
Rua de Belém 110 · Cafe · Breakfast · Lunch
Rua de Belém 110, 1300-085 Lisbon
Mon–Sun 08:00–22:00
Cafe in Lisbon serving cafe. Offers outdoor seating, takeout.
Lisbon · Ice cream · Lunch · Dinner
Rua da Junqueira, 1300-340 Lisbon
Mon–Sun 11:00–22:30
Ice-cream parlour in Lisbon serving ice cream. Offers outdoor seating, takeout.
Lisbon · Pizza · Lunch · Dinner
Rua Alda Nogueira 6, 1400-903 Lisbon
Mon–Sun 12:00–23:00
Restaurant in Lisbon serving pizza.
Lisbon · Italian · Pizza · Lunch
Calçada da Ajuda 107, 1300-011 Lisbon
Restaurant in Lisbon serving pizza and Italian.
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