15 addresses where Guanarteme actually eats.
Guanarteme lives for specialty coffee and slow lunches. LUWAK and Cuptural pour single-origins on Joaquín Costa and Rafael Almeida while surfers dry off from morning sessions. Come evening, Nakar does bold Canarian-Asian plates on Fernando Guanarteme and Lambada Records Bar spins everything from Afrobeat to Canarian funk over vermouth until 1am.
15 addresses across restaurants, bars, and cafes - all in Guanarteme.
Guanarteme's restaurant lineup leans ambitious for a beach neighborhood. Tabaiba and Nakar run tasting menus two blocks off Las Canteras, Gánigo builds its case on rice, and Bululú plates Canarian fish with serious mojo. When you just want pasta and a terrace, Addio Mare holds down Plaza del Pilar.
Michelin Guide-featured restaurant near Las Canteras serving Basque-Navarran-influenced cuisine from a visible open kitchen. The tasting menu is the move here - precise, confident cooking in a neighbourhood better known for beach bars.
Italian spot on Plaza del Pilar with fresh pasta and a wine list that does the job. The terrace fills up fast on warm evenings, so booking ahead saves you the sidewalk hover.
Abraham Ortega cooks in a matching sombrero with his team, sending out two tasting menus from a cave-like room two blocks off Las Canteras. Order the chickpeas with egg yolk and pork belly, his grandmother's recipe, and drink Canarian.
Named after the traditional Canarian clay vessel once used for cooking and storage, with rice dishes as a clear strength on the menu. A restaurant that takes its island roots seriously without turning them into a theme.
Sweet potato dough gives the arepas a faint sweetness you don't usually get, and the patacones arrive as crisp fried-banana patties. The three Venezuelan owners run a small ground-floor room a few minutes from Las Canteras beach, mixing ceviche and tuna tataki with homemade foie and quesillo for dessert.
Guanarteme's bar scene runs on contrast. Lambada Records pours vermouth over vinyl on Joaquín Costa, NYC Taxi RockBar cranks the volume past conversation on Numancia, and BEMBÉ leans Cuban with tapas spilling onto the street. The Captain 13 pours gin cocktails alongside picoteo near Las Canteras after dark.
Cuban-themed corner bar with Caribbean-leaning tapas, creative cocktails, and outdoor seating that sets a party-ready tone early. The Afro-Caribbean spirit in the name carries through to the playlist and the crowd.
Part record shop, part vermouth bar on Joaquín Costa, spinning vinyl across genres while you drink. It comes alive after dark and rewards anyone who treats their evening as open-ended.
Named for Eulis Báez's number 13 jersey, worn across seven seasons as captain of CB Gran Canaria, this corner spot near Las Canteras pours gin cocktails alongside picoteo. Once a month it goes candlelit for the Cena Maridaje, a long-table dinner of Asian-Latin-Mediterranean fusion from guest kitchen The Hook.
Guinness and Kilkenny on tap in a dark, memorabilia-cluttered room a few minutes from Playa de Las Canteras. Three big screens carry the sport, the crowd splits between Canarians and expats, and the kitchen turns out fish, monkfish included. Open till nearly 3 AM.
Yellow cab-themed dive on Calle Numancia blasting rock music at volumes that discourage conversation. Cheap drinks, sticky floors, zero pretension - it's been that way for years and nobody's asking it to change.
Guanarteme's coffee scene runs on a tight local supply chain: Cuptural roasts the beans, Luwak and Chanito pour them, and Cool Beans serves single-origins in Andrea's handmade ceramics near the Columbus Museum. Talleres Palermo bends the format, mixing pour-overs with brocante and coworking inside a former carpentry workshop. Order black, sit long.
Beans roasted in-house on a quiet residential street off Las Canteras, with a daily filter and a weekly espresso rotation. The two-level room has wooden surfaces, outside seating, and a glimpse of sea. Order the banana-and-turmeric cake, grab a retail bag on the way out.
Independent specialty roaster operating out of Guanarteme, supplying beans to other cafés around the neighbourhood. Small-batch and locally focused - this is where the coffee nerds in Las Canteras trace their cups back to.
Compact cafe pouring Cuptural-roasted coffee in a laptop-friendly setup with decent Wi-Fi. Remote workers fill it by mid-morning and clear out when the afternoon swell picks up.
Carla named this Calle Torres Quevedo coffee bar after her grandfather, framing his quotes on the walls and chasing the kind of counter where the barista already knows your order. Beans rotate every week or two between Barcelona's Nomad and Canarian roaster Young, with matcha and a tight breakfast card of toasts on the side.
A former carpentry workshop named for a Palermo-born craftsman who landed here after the war, now 400 square meters under 7-meter ceilings. The vintage furniture doubles as stock, so the décor shifts as pieces sell. Homemade tacos and burgers, DJs on weekends, and a rooftop garden upstairs.
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