The north eats differently from the resort south: more fish, more rabbit, more wine grown a few kilometres from the table. Lunch is the main meal of the week, and a good half of these kitchens shut through the afternoon.
These are the places we send guests to, starting with the two you can walk to from our door and ending with the one you need to book two months ahead.
22 — written by the people who host here.
Playa de San Marcos, Icod de los Vinos
Amarca is a seafront restaurant on Playa de San Marcos in Icod de los Vinos, serving grilled fish and Valencian paella a few minutes' walk from our apartment.
Garachico
Bestia Marina is the high-end fish restaurant in Garachico — the one our hosts pick when the meal itself is the occasion rather than a stop along the way.
Playa de San Marcos, Icod de los Vinos
Casa Chicha is a village restaurant on Playa de San Marcos in Icod de los Vinos, best known for fish and seafood paella and for its busy weekend afternoons.
Santa Catalina
A traditional guachinche near the TF-5 that opens only from November to February, serving simple local food. Very popular with locals — go early or late.
Puerto de la Cruz
Lebanese food in Puerto de la Cruz, recommended by our hosts for the cooking and specifically for the baklava. Twenty-five minutes east of the apartment.
Icod de los Vinos
Genuine Canarian cooking in Icod de los Vinos, and the other half of the recommendation our hosts make alongside La Parada. Eight minutes from the apartment.
Garachico
El Rebojo is a small Garachico restaurant known for careful, precise cooking and for pouring Viña Zanata, the white made a few kilometres up the coast.
Puerto de la Cruz
Puerto de la Cruz's only Michelin-starred restaurant, awarded in the 2026 guide. Two tasting menus built on Canarian produce — book a long way ahead.
Near San Marcos, Icod de los Vinos
A working guachinche in Icod de los Vinos: a wine grower's own kitchen, serving their wine by the jug with a short menu of meat and Canarian staples.
Icod de los Vinos
Straightforward Canarian cooking in Icod de los Vinos — one of the two places our hosts send guests for the local food, eight minutes up the hill.
Puerto de la Cruz
The tandoori restaurant our hosts rate as the best Indian in Puerto de la Cruz — useful when you have eaten Canarian food for five days straight.
La Caleta de Interián
A seafood restaurant in a small village between Garachico and Los Silos, known for generous portions and friendly, affordable service off the tourist route.
Garachico
Silogía is a modern Canarian restaurant in Garachico with unusually strong vegetarian cooking, and the place to ask for the local Viña Zanata white wine.
Puerto de la Cruz
Thai food in Puerto de la Cruz, and one of the recommendations our hosts make most warmly — for the cooking and for the people who run the place.
Garachico
Tasca El Muelle Viejo sits by Garachico's old harbour and serves traditional Canarian dishes with a modern turn, with tables outside when the weather allows.
Garachico
Los Pinos is a cosy Garachico tasca serving authentic Canarian cooking. It is a lunch place above all — the kitchen tends to close early in the evening.
Icod de los Vinos
Vielú Pizzería in Icod de los Vinos has been making thin, crisp-based pizza since 2016. It is the local answer to a night in, and it does takeaway.
North Tenerife
North Tenerife restaurants keep hours that surprise visitors: village kitchens close all afternoon, neighbours take turns opening, and lunch is the big weekend meal.
El Sauzal
Sharing plates built on Canarian produce in El Sauzal, a village above the north coast — our hosts' favourite restaurant on the island, forty minutes east.
Garachico
Rocamar is a small Garachico restaurant with a short menu. Ask for the conejo — rabbit is the dish our host rates as the island's finest here.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The best vegetarian restaurant on Tenerife according to our hosts — worth knowing about on an island where the default menu is fish, rabbit and pork.
North Tenerife
A guachinche is a Tenerife wine-grower's kitchen, regulated by law: own wine only, a short traditional menu, open until the season's wine runs out.