On Tenerife you can find lots of restaurants, taverns and so called "Guachinches" distributed all over the isle. The Guachinche restaurants are typical for the canary isles and here you are served typical canarian dishes and specialties from the region. The ambience in the guachinche is something really special. Normally those kinds of restaurants are established in garages or old canarian houses. It happened often to me that I wanted to visit a guachinche and didn't have any idea where to find one. As well as if you live for a longer time on the isle you don't know even the half of the guachinches and typical restaurants existing here. Now there is a site, on which you can get wonderful insider tips about guachinches, restaurants and taverns. The site is called "De Picoteo por Tenerife", which means something like ...

Tenerife is a paradise of nature, spoiled by a various landscape and a rich animal and plant world. One can watch dolphins and whales on the Ocean between the two islands Tenerife and La Gomera, neighbouring island. The Loro Parque, a wonderful zoo in Puerto de La Cruz, sustains over 1.000 different kinds of parrots is a visit worth. For active holiday makers who like hiking and exploring the isle of Tenerife has a lot of wonderful mointain pathes to discover. One of the most popular destinations in Europe is Tenerife, primarily for it’s pleasant climate and spectaclular landscape. If you visit the isle of Tenerife, at least you should taste something from the traditional cuisine.The small idyllic restaurants offer a varied and palatable kitchen with ingredients like fish, seafood, ...

Plans are in hand to give Tenerife its first organic farmers market. The town hall at Los Silos in the north west corner of the island hopes to have the organic market up and running by March of next year. The market will operate on Sunday mornings, though whether it will be a weekly, fortnightly or monthly event has still to be decided.

A tapas contest is one of the more unusual features of colourful celebrations to mark the anniversary of the founding of the Tenerife capital of Santa Cruz. A full range of events is planned for the week-long festival, starting on Sunday April 29 and continuing through to Sunday May 6. They take place across the city, but mainly in Plaza del Príncipe, Parque García Sanabria and Calle La Noria. The colourful series of events include an International Marionette Festival, several other puppet shows, an exhibition of flowers, a concert of Canarian music, and a flower crosses workshop and competition. The whole city will be decked out with traditional floral crosses and the highlight of the programme will be on the evening of May 2, a Great Canarian Fiesta with traditional Canarian dress a prominent feature. In 1999, the party, known as the Dance of Magicians, went ...

Culinary skills on the island of Tenerife stand comparison with anywhere in the world. Thanks to centuries of influences stirred into the mix by the island’s location along the busy trade routes down the coast of Africa, an eclectic collection of dishes now claim a place on the menus of Tenerife’s diverse restaurants. However, there is one speciality certain to be found in any respectable Canarian restaurant, Papas Arrugadas. These small new potatoes are boiled in their skins in salt water and usually served with a traditional mojo sauce, either green in colour when made with coriander, or fiery red when chillies and paprika have been added. The potatoes are cooked in heavily salted boiling water, preferably using sea salt. Years ago sea water would have been used. The potatoes should float in the salted water. If they don’t, more salt needs to be added. They should simmer for around 20 ...