In this journey through the best restaurants in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, tradition serves as the muse for a cuisine that surveys the territory through technique and contemporary discourse. From La Palma to Tenerife, via La Gomera and El Hierro, the province showcases a renewed gastronomy that digs into its roots, dives into the ocean, and soars to heights as lofty as Teide.
La Palma
In Tazacorte, within a historic sugar estate, Hacienda de Abajo houses the Canarian haute cuisine restaurant El Sitio, awarded a Sol Repsol. Led by the Palma-born chef José Alberto Díaz, the venue offers a signature cuisine that begins from traditional recipes and interprets them with modern techniques and subtle international influences.
The menu, renewed each season, gives prominence to the local product –with particular attention to vegetarian preparations– and is accompanied by a carefully curated wine selection, with a notable presence of Canary and La Palma references including a small winery linked to the hotel. All this unfolds in a dining room surrounded by works of art, where gastronomy and heritage converse in a single setting.
In addition to the restaurant, the hotel features a lookout perched in the estate’s tower, from which one can watch the sunset over the Atlantic while enjoying its distinctive cuisine.
