Local food

Gran Canaria is known worldwide for its excellent climate, its magnificent beaches and its astonishing landscape. However in the inland it keeps some treasures yet undiscovered for those on Gran Canaria holidays, treasures related to Gran Canaria's inhabitants, their culture and their way of life. Many of the island's rural hotels and rural holiday houses offer such an experience.

Among them, its gastronomy has been elaborated along several centuries with excellent raw materials (meat, fish, fruits and vegetables) combined in original and tasty recipes.

Thus, we invite you to make a trip trying some of the traditional dishes of Gran Canaria, starting with the "Enyesques" (snacks) among which we can find famous "Papas Arrugadas" (small potatoes boiled in their jackets), "Ropa Vieja" (type of casserole) or "Carajacas" (filleted liver). This can be followed by first courses such as Fish Soup or Watercress Soup. And the second courses can be composed of meat like Salmorejo Rabbit, or fish like Sea Bream Casserole.

To end with we invite you sweeten your palate with any of the desserts like Bienmesabe (very sweet almond paste) or Yolk Mass.

And to complete your meal on your Gran Canaria holiday, all this can go down well accompanied with a good local wine.