Best restaurants Tenerife, Canary Islands - Lonely Planet (2024)

Café Palmelita

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

This delightful cafe has a vintage exterior, a theme which continues within, and was founded in the late 1960s with German origins. The emphasis is on…

Kazan

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Kazan's Michelin star has assured it a large fanbase in town and far beyond. The setting: lightly polished wood and beige fabric chairs, muted and…

El Rincón de Juan Carlos

Tenerife

One of the island's best dining choices, this superb Michelin-starred restaurant is just off the main plaza. There's a marked leaning towards seafood: try…

Guannabi

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

This excellence of this handsome restaurant is defined not just by its superb ambience and faultless service, but by its simply supreme menu. Guannabi…

Tas-k

Tenerife

Be sure to make a reservation at this superb spot hidden away down a lane near the port. Some 27 tapas fill the menu, from fresh salmon tartar to croutons…

Tito’s Bodeguita

Puerto de la Cruz

Despite the mildly off-putting location right off a busy roundabout a few kilometres south of the town centre, the patios, flower-filled gardens and…

Abama Kabuki

Tenerife

Marrying Western, Canarian and Japanese flavours, this Michelin-starred restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton Abama has sent a tsunami barrelling through…

La Ola

Tenerife

This restaurant is located away from the usual tourist beach spots, and is all the better for ploughing its own furrow. Beyond the owner's conscientious…

Hotel Rural Finca Salamanca

Tenerife

The very appealing rustic dining-hall ambience is just one of this restaurant's charms, another is the excellent menu of Canarian dishes. The menu often…

Bodeguita Canaria

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

This terrific local favourite has an earthy, traditional atmosphere, with chunky dark furniture and charmingly dated decor. Try local dishes such as ropa…

Relieve Restaurant

North Coast Tenerife

With such adorable delights as blueberry tart, moist double-chocolate brownies, macaroons, pastries and a wonderful selection of breads, this small but…

Guaydil

La Laguna

You can't go wrong at this delightful contemporary restaurant with its punchy, playful decor. Dishes are deftly executed, exquisitely presented and…

Le Penon

Tenerife

A terrific choice with a superbly prepared menu of French seafood, meat dishes and tapas. Dishes such as the braised crispy squid cannelloni, duck breast…

Mirador de Garachico

Garachico

This pleasing combo of contemporary bar and restaurant, plus tasteful art-and-crafts store, serves creative combinations such as venison in a chocolate…

Restaurante Victoria

North Coast Tenerife

Dine at this superb restaurant in Hotel Rural Victoria's elegant atrium. There's exemplary presentation and flair in such dishes as duck confit with…

Sopa

Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje

This chilled-out space with sofas, comfy armchairs, and shelves of books and magazines provides the backdrop for a (largely vegetarian) menu of healthy…

El Cine

Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje

It's probably been said before, but El Cine deserves a medal for its inexpensive, simply prepared seafood. It's been here since the '80s, with a menu that…

Bar la Duquesa

North Coast Tenerife

Cooking since 1942, this friendly and popular family-run place has a pleasing interior of old photos, decorative gourds and farming utensils. The menu…

Thai Botanico

Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje

This enchanting choice is decorated with sumptuous decor and serves a large choice of well-crafted Thai dishes. Curries, stir-fries, salads, spring rolls,…

Il Gelato del Mercado

Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje

This enterprising and popular hole-in-the-wall gelateria sells tubs and cones of superb gelato, concocted with natural and locally sourced ingredients, to…

La Pepa Food Market

Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje

This gourmet food market has stalls including upmarket delis, a seafood counter, sushi, a pancakes and waffles stand, a wine bar and a vegetarian snack…

Tasca 61

La Laguna

Organic, locally sourced produce, a slow-food philosophy and artesanal cheeses are the hallmarks of this tiny place with its limited but delicious menu of…

Burger Mel

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Keeping Santa Cruz vegans happy since 1985, though parked rather incongruously along Calle la Marina, this neat and long, white restaurant serves scrummy…

Rosa Negra

Puerto de la Cruz

At this small, popular tapas bar beneath Calle la Hoya's palm trees, you can take a seat under a parasol out front and watch the Puerto de la Cruz life go…

El Mesón

Tenerife

Don't be put off by the nine-language menu; locals rate this place as one of the best in town, and the owner, who’s quite a character, could talk the hind…

Casa Egon

North Coast Tenerife

Founded in 1916, this is the oldest pasteleria (cake shop) in the Canaries and has happily maintained its stuck-in-a-time-warp ambience with custard…

Regulo

Puerto de la Cruz

The setting is fairy-tale atmospheric: a 200-year-old building with creaky, uneven floors, rustic antiques and small dining rooms covering three floors,…

Pastelería Díaz

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

The superb pastries are what keep customers flocking back to this utilitarian-looking orange-themed place with a big reputation. The mini-bocadillos …

La Casa del Drago

North Coast Tenerife

Head downstairs through the shops to this restaurant-cafe below, and a lovely garden right next to the drago tree, for splendid views of the noble…

Tascafe Grimaldi

North Coast Tenerife

Swathed in tranquillity, the main terrace of this historic 1624 mansion, with its sea views, fountain and drago (dragon) tree, is the place to head on a…

Otelo

Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje

This Adeje restaurant is primarily about its dramatic views over the Barranco del Infierno, but the Canarian menu is very good too; the mainstay is Otelo…

Bodega Julian

Puerto de la Cruz

If you've grown weary of voluminous multilingual menus that read like a ledger, the reassuringly snappy list here is a refreshing change. The time-tested…

La Casa de Oscar

La Laguna

This place always has a great buzz, particularly at weekends, when the tables are packed with exuberant local families tucking into dishes like grilled…

Bodega el Reloj

North Coast Tenerife

This restaurant's beautiful setting, overlooking terraced gardens and verdant slopes to the sea, has a touch of Italy's Amalfi Coast about it. Dishes are…

El Aguarde

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

This special-occasion place, exuding a minimalist elegance to accompany its finely crafted dishes, gets rave reviews. The menu changes according to what…

La Torre del Mirador

Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje

This elegant bar and restaurant has a lovely terrace with colourful flowers and palms and delightful sea views. The menu has several sound seafood choices…

Restaurante Mil Sabores

Puerto de la Cruz

Styling itself as a temple to modern Mediterranean cooking, this flash, blue-fronted restaurant has the looks and the tastes down to a fine art. Expect…

Meson los Gemelos

Puerto de la Cruz

The house specialty is grilled meat and fish at this friendly, welcoming restaurant with a rustic atmosphere. The setting is a covered interior barn-size…

Sabor Canario

North Coast Tenerife

Exercise your taste buds with soul-satisfying traditional cuisine at this fabulous restaurant located in the lovely, leafy and light-filled patio of the…

Da Canio III

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

With a dining room decked out in standard terracotta and stone, this Italian-owned restaurant serves a better class of pizza and pasta than most at very…