Typical Canarian Cuisine includes many dishes prepared with fish caught in large amounts along the coast. Fish is served with the famous papas arrugadas, potatoes boiled in salt water, and a hot sauce called mojo.

Traditional dishes are watercress stew, the popular sancocho canario, made with salted fish and mojo, rabbit in salmorejo, a sauce consisting of water, vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper, sweet black pudding, etc.  Banana and tomato, the main source of wealth of the islands, also occupy an important place in Canarian cooking, as do avocado pear and papaya fruit as well as gofio, a roasted mixture of wheat, maize or barley, which is eaten with certain dishes of the country instead of bread.  Among the sweets, especially outstanding are tirijalas, bienmesabes, frangollo, bizcochos lustrados, turrones de melaza or gofio and pastry.  Among the drinks produced in the islands, there is especially rum, rum-cum-honey, malmsey wine and the local wines produced on Lanzarote.

Recommended Restaurants

• Restaurante Playa Quemada, Playa Quemada.  We would recommend this as the best restaurant we have found on the island so far.  Just after Yaiza, there is a right turn that takes you down to Playa Quemada.  Don’t wear your high heels as the car park leaves a little to be desired.  Fabulous food and always excellent fresh fish available.  Booking advised. 928 173 707.
• Tipico Espanol, Playa Blanca.  We would highly recommend this restaurant on the main street in town.  Best Prawns in Lanzarote!  If dining with children, it is opposite the park and when they get restless, take them over to park and  you can relax over coffee and watch them play.
• Italian Restaurant at Faro Park.  Excellent pizzas and pasta and very handy.