Restaurante La Cocina Abierta — Restaurant in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Francesca and Matteo are a lovely couple from Italy who share in this charming little restaurant recipes that have been the center of their tabletops for a lifetime.

Every single one of them is special, delicious, and as homemade as it can be, in my case I loved the chicken and the orange pie, but I also loved the pasta with chicken liver and the grilled tuna, there is definitely something for everyone, and everything is fresh and with top ingredients.

But not only the food is amazing, Francesca and Matteo build a great experience around their food, guiding every customer trough the menu to choose a meal, and making you feel at home.

The restaurant is mainly Italian, I would say the experience is overall more Mediterranean than just Italian, the menu here does not represent a country but a family, the one Francesca and Matteo built, and they make every customer feel like a part of that.

I’m very thankful for having had the pleasure of dining at their “home”, and I wish them all the very best from the bottom...

The food was simply excellent and perfect. The hostess is very friendly and helpful and explains the menu wonderfully with attention to detail. The Italian dishes with local ingredients are excellent. Spices and ingredients from traditional Italian cuisine have been replaced very creatively with local alternatives, creating a new flavour experience. The couple who run the restaurant are very friendly and kind and cater to special requests from guests without hesitation. Many thanks for the exceptional food and the friendly welcome. I can only recommend everyone to come and eat here and if we hadn't discovered the restaurant on the last day of our trip, we would definitely have eaten here more often. The gnocchi, the lasagne and the family recipe dishes were exceptional and are highly...

Family run, intimate little restaurant, overseen by an Italian couple, serving food that they find on the island (goat stew for example) and their own heritage. Very much home style cooking, no frills but very delicious food.

We had the salad of fruit and goats cheese that worked perfectly despite the unusual combo (and unlike most "ensaladas" in Spain, this was actual light summery salad without added mayonnaise or bacon or fish or other proteins!), a light carrot souffle and then "grandmother's chicken" which was cubed pieces of the meat in a deep sauce of deliciousness with small fried potatoes and red cabbage.

Friendliest owners you could hope for, highly...