The Cunning Canary

If you want to get the most out of your dining experiences in Gran Canaria, I can offer you a few tips. First of all, if you want to try authentic Canarian cooking you need to go to the traditional Canarian restaurants. This might sound obvious by the touristy places aren’t going to serve traditional [...]

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Sancocho Canario, or Canarian sancocho, is a typical dish that Canarians prepare and eat on Good Friday. This dish also exists in South America but it is served as a soup or stew there. The Canarian cooking version is more solid and they use salted fish (halibut, sea bass or similar) to make it. The [...]

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Some people visit the island of Gran Canaria with the prospect of sampling some Canarian cooking in mind. Others only want to know about McDonalds Gran Canaria or Burger King Gran Canaria. More people seem to fall in the middle of these categories though, enjoying the flavour of authentic Canarian cuisine on some days and [...]

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Some people find that when the weather is hot they don’t want to eat much and I can be that way too. Sometimes I just fancy some tapas for lunch or dinner and I find that’s enough – other times I can be a real pig but can’t we all!! Tapas are little snack-like nibbles [...]

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Whether you are on a budget, you just like Chinese food or you like the idea of an “eat all you like” restaurant, the Chinese buffets in Puerto Rico are pretty good. They are all 5.98€. There are four in the bottom shopping centre and one in the Europa Centre (and another at Amadores and [...]

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I have very few favourite restaurants here because most of them seem to have the same menu and use the same defrosted vegetables and offer the same mediocre quality of food (sorry but it’s true!) However, if you are searching for the best restaurants in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria, I’d like to add Rhodos Palace [...]

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If you like Canarian cooking you will probably like Canarian cheese too. There are lots of varieties ranging from the softest goat cheese to the ripest, hardest cured cheese. Canarian cheese is bursting with flavor, whichever variety you try. Canarians enjoy their cheese with cured ham and locally grown olives (and of course a glass [...]

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