Tabaiba Restaurante — Restaurant in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

I am very curious how this restaurant appeared in the Michelin guide 🤔 There were some super cool ‘concepts’, such as the picnic dish and the pinata dessert, but the taste on almost all 8 dishes, including the desserts, were waaaaay too salty. The chickpea dish was hard to eat because of all the salt, had to drink lots of water between every mouthful to manage it. The same with the fish dish served with cinnamon sauce, the second sauce tasted like soy sauce and salt water.

Dish #2 which was a garlic ice cream and a rosmarin sauce (?) was not eatable at all, it just tasted salt in different textures. We did not finish it, and the neighbor table did not like it either.

The fish dish with butter sauce was super good

The wines were pretty good, not phenomenal.

The restaurant was very cold, we were freezing a lot, and the ligts were very, very bright which removed the chill or romantic vibe.

The servers were very nice, smiling and kind, and service in general was good.

All in all, the potential good flavors drowned in salt, and did not feel worth the...

We had the experience menu.

Location: (+) Small Restaurant with very nice interior (o) The Air-conditioning was quite cold. Even we worn sweatshirts, it felt quite cold.

Service: (+) Outstanding service. Explained with enthusiasm each dish. The idea, the connection to the canaries etc. (o) unfortunately the English skills of the service were a bit limited or with strong accent, which made it hard to understand 100%

Food: (+) We like most of the dishes. Especially the main dishes with fish and goat were awesome. (o)The alg dish which should reflect the smell of the sea, has not met our tatse as it the alg souce was too strong.

Presentation: (+) Completely outstanding presentation. Each dish comes with a different plate which are funny, great looking etc. but never normal....

We had a most wonderful and unexpectedly innovative dinner last night to celebrate Christmas. Everything from service to food and drinks was 5/5.

The food at Tabaiba was sort of uplifted traditional Canarian food with surprising combinations such as mole-mojo with cinnamon spiced brioche. I would have been happy to eat that for the rest of the evening, but we still had more than dozen items to go. All of the 15 items in the tasting menu were impressive. You can also opt for a shorter and slightly cheaper tasting menu.

The owner came to meet us after dinner and spent a good while chatting which was very nice. The service was relaxed and nice. Everyone spoke some English which was helpful.

The first Michelin star is...