Tasca El Olivo — Restaurant in Puerto de la Cruz

This is an absolute gem..I only wish we'd found it earlier in our holiday..the menu has lots of really interesting choices of Canarian cusine but be warned the portions are larger than the tapas you might be used to on mainland Spain (they will make you half a portion) A choice of freshly baked bread with butter is served as you look through the menu which is so difficult to choose from it all sounds wonderful. We ordered a lovely mixed salad with anchovies, delicately cooked cougettes with Iberican ham and parmesan, chickpeas with pork and chorizo served in a metal pot with a lid (my favourite!) and lastly squid which we had to cancel unfortunately as we were so full.The staff are muy muy simpatico and after sampling a few dodgy restaurants elsewhere I only wish we'd found it sooner instead of our last night.It will certainty be remembered by us for...

Limited but delicious vegan options: papas arrugadas, berenjenas con miel de palma, and potatoes with grilled vegetables. The potatoes with grilled vegetables were seasoned with cinnamon, which is a very unlikely and odd combination. We didn’t like it at all and if we had known this, we would have requested to leave the cinnamon out. We asked to prepare some pan tomaca for our son, the seasoning was excessive to our taste (lots of garlic and other spices), and we asked them to prepare a simple one, just with tomatoes and EVO oil, which they did. We loved the kindness of the waiting staff and their attentiveness. The bathroom is difficult to access because of the narrow stairs, impossible for people with...

We really would have liked to eat dinner here, but when we got there, we found the restaurant open, but devoid of staff. The tables inside had been set, on the outside they were not. There were no signs informing us, that the restaurant was closed (and it clearly wasn't) or that they were catering to a closed society that night. There was just no one there, while the lights were on inside and the door stood wide open. We waited for around ten minutes, no one came. This place has TERRIBLE...