Memorable meals are a vital part of the Christmas holiday experience. So we´ve put together a selection of the island´s leading up market eateries – based on favourable reviews from regular visitors to the site, as well as other impartial sources such as Trip Advisor and Virtual Tourist.
Remember – phone to check opening times, make a reservation and expect to pay above the norm. But hey…it´s Christmas after all.
La Cabaña – Macher
This excellent British owned restaurant is just a ten-minute taxi journey outside Puerto del Carmen – and it´s well worth the effort.
Husband and wife team Debbie and Darren Spurr – are a class act – offering a selection of well crafted house specialities that you simply won’t find elsewhere, including monkfish with saffron and caviar butter, caremelized loin of pork and squid with chorizo.
Reservations: 0034 646 523089 or 0034 650 685652
Website: www.lacabanamacher.com
Email: lacabanamacher@hotmail.com
Location: Macher, on the main road running from Arrecife to Yaiza
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La Tegala – Macher
La Tegala serves top end Canarian cuisine in luxurious surroundings. The restaurant is the brainchild of Anotonio Hernandez, former proprietor of La Era in Yaiza.
His passion is to take local cuisine to new levels of creativity and with the help of the very best local ingredients and rising culinary star David Moraga in the kitchen he accomplishes this mission with ease.
Reservations: 0034 928 830038 or 0034 664 555 718
Location: Macher, on the main road running from Arrecife to Yaiza
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Cejas – Teguise
Cejas serve innovative cuisine – with lots of Japanese and Italian influences – in intimate and refined surroundings. Front of house you´ll find a café area – but head for the plush main dining room, where you can enjoy creatively presented dishes from a lengthy menu.
Cejas isn´t cheap – but you get so many extras with your meal here, such as a complimentary glass of cava on arrival, fresh bread baked on the premises and and a sorbet between courses, that it still feels like good value for money.
Reservations: 0034 928 845 101
Location: Plaza San Francisco 5 – next to the church by the main road running from Tahiche to Teguise
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LagOmar – Nazaret
If you´re looking to dine in dramatic surroundings then LagOmar is hard to beat. As this restaurant, serving modern international food, used to be part of former film star Omar Sharif’s home – built into the side of a disused quarry by local architect Jesús Soto in the style of the ubiquitous Cesar Manrique.
The food here has picked up after taking a bit of a downturn a year or so ago although the menu never seems to change that much. But the location itself makes up for that and the quality of cooking is still good.
Reservations: 0034 928 845 665
Website: www.lag-o-mar.com
Email: infos@lag-o-mar.com
Location: Oasis de Nazaret – at the top of the village, off the road between Tahiche and Teguise
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Amura – Puerto Calero
Amura enjoys a great sea front location in the marina at Puerto Calero and offers top quality international cuisine in up market surroundings.
Like many other leading restaurants Amura have a New Years Eve spectacular planned – which involves fireworks, free bar and live music and dancing. The menu that night includes delicacies such as confit of segovian pork with apples, chestnuts, ginger and orange zest and a lobster salad with scallop tartare.
The all-inclusive New Years price is pretty spectacular too – at €160 per person. Although once you allow for the exchange rate and think about the cost of most New Years events in the UK or Ireland it doesn’t seem quite that steep. And you certainly wouldn’t be partying in surroundings like this.
Reservations: 0034 928 513 181
Location: Far end of the marina at Puerto Calero – which is a ten minute taxi journey from Puerto del Carmen. See our Lanzarote Map
© Photos James Mitchell
