Get to know all the essential local food places in Gran Canaria with us. In this site you can check several restaurants in Gran Canaria of Canarian food throughout the island. From the most posh, to the most easygoing. You will find local food places in the countryside, fresh fish and sea food by the coast, snacks and even haute cuisine. All this with local raw material as the clear protagonist.
Local food in Gran Canaria
Within Canarian cuisine, the best known are its famous papas con mojo potatoes with their sauces, red or green. Nor can gofio be missing, gofio escaldado (made with the seafood broth), powdered for the vegetable soups or even in a delicious gofio mousse. If you want more information about what to order in restaurants and Canarian food in general, take a look at the previous link.
Next we leave you with some of the articles of the local food places in Gran Canaria that we usually visit. If you do not want to read them all, you have a restaurant guide at the end 🙂
If you want to have access to all our favorite Canarian food restaurants, we have designed a digital Guide to Gran Canaria restaurants for you. In addition, it also includes what for us are the best restaurants in Gran Canaria with up to 80 options classified by area and type of food. In this way, in addition to saving time when looking for information on places to eat, you will discover places that locals frequent and you will be contributing your bit to make this project sustainable.
As you may have seen, you can visit Gran Canaria to lick your fingers! Is there a place that you want to recommend us and that does not appear here? Did you like any particular recommendation? Leave it to us in the comments.
Guides to Gran Canaria
Finally, here are some articles that may be of help to you if it is your first time in Gran Canaria:
- Things to do in Gran Canaria
- Things to do in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Things to do in Maspalomas
- Restaurants in Las Palmas
- Restaurants in Maspalomas
We also have routes and itineraries to discover the island on your own already prepared by us, so you won’t have to be reading different articles wasting your time.