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La Cazuela
Drenched in Canary yellow with a pretty, flower-filled terrace, this place is heartily recommended by locals for its solid traditional fare. Settle in for a long, filling lunch and try the cazuela (a casserole made with fresh or salted fish).
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Restaurante Casa Pana
If you're driving and want to round off your hike with a memorable dining experience, continue for around 25km until you reach the pretty agricultural town of Vilaflor. Just off the lovely main square, flanked by handsome buildings, seek out Restaurante Casa Pana, run by the lovely Miryn in her grandmother's former home.
Each room is painted a different colour, while outside the tables are set under pomegranate trees and grape vines, an ideal setting for a long, leisurely lunch. The white wine is made here and excellent, as is the traditional cuisine.
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Restaurante Fusion
Enjoys a good, central location with a solid traditional menu, outside tables and a pleasant indoor dining space with a quirky wall display of ancient nails. Kick-start your appetite with a dish of ropa vieja (literally, 'old clothes'), made with beef, peppers and chickpeas from a peasant recipe. Grilled tuna, garlic with octopus and grilled aubergine slices with goat's cheese and honey are similar culinary winners.
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La Manduka
Think of stepping into an Andy Warhol painting when you eat here. The dining rooms are all intense colours, large abstract paintings and dazzling tableware. Thankfully, the food rises to the challenge with an innovative menu that includes dishes like solomillo de Ibérico con salsa de dátiles y sabrosa jardinera al sesámo (fillet steak with a date sauce and fresh vegetables with sesame).
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El Cangrejo Colorao
There's a pleasing old-fashioned elegance about this seafront restaurant with its bow-tied, white-tablecloth ambience. The menu is only in Spanish - always a good sign - and includes cazuela de champiñones y jamon (meat stew with mushrooms and ham) and mejillones rellenos de cordero (mussels filled with lamb). There is a menú del día (set menu).
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El Tonique
Head downstairs to this cosy restaurant, its walls lined with dusty bottles of wine. These are but a sample of more than 250 different varieties quietly maturing in Tonique's cellars. The food is very good and worth the wait for a table (it's popular for lunch) and a plate of pimientos del piquillo rellenos de merluza (small peppers stuffed with hake).
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La Fundación
This is where Santa Cruz's elite wine and dine on market-fresh cuisine. In an exquisitely restored Canarian mansion, savour dishes like salad of Canarian cheeses with quince and honey, or roast duck with papaya compote, washed down with excellent wines. There are two storeys with the less formal tasca (bar) downstairs.
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Casa de Santa María
Opposite the main portal of the Iglesia de Santa María, this restaurant looks like it has been transplanted from Andalusia. The interior is set around several courtyards with bubbling fountains, plants and flowers. The menu includes all manner of goaty offerings - from roasted to fried cheese with apple chutney.
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La Taberna de Wally
A delight. The eclectic menu includes freshly prepared salads, garlic soup, snails and meat and fish dishes, all served in a gorgeous garden courtyard surrounded by graceful old buildings. At weekends, the friendly owner turns the place over to a DJ, who spins great chill-out music until the wee hours.
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Mesón Condado
This better-than-decent, middle-of-the-road (décor-wise) restaurant serves up a combination of Galician food from northwestern Spain, Canarian fare and more mainstream Spanish dishes. A very satisfying menú del día (set menu) will set you back a piffling around €6 or so.
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La Cabaña
Enjoy grilled meats, fresh fish, salads, soup, papas arrugadas with mojo, and fabulous bread cooked with anise (an island speciality) at this rustic spot just off the highway south of town. The balcony terrace affords an ocean view - although you'll have to put up with traffic noise.
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La Cabaña Asturiana
This restaurant has a superb position on the seafront with an attractive chunky wood furnished interior. The menu here offers something different: traditional Asturian cuisine with dishes like Asturian stew, rabbit or sausages in cider and tuna-stuffed onions. Tastier than they sound - promise!
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Restaurante La Vaca Azul
Enjoys prime position overlooking the pebbly beach, although the surreal rooftop cow (floodlit in lurid blue at night) has the best spot. The menu includes paella, vegetarian kebabs and mixed fish grill (minimum two people). The place doubles as a gallery for local photographers and artists.
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Casa de España
With its attractive minimal style, this contemporary Spanish bar/restaurant is a breath of fresh air after so many mosaic interiors. Snappily dressed waiters serve up classic Spanish dishes, with some wonderful specials like lamb with summer fruits, and there’s free tapas with drinks.
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El Silbo
The best place for typical Canarian cuisine like tuna with mojo, fried rabbit or chipirones (tiny squid). A covered terrace with bright tablecloths and an abundance of hanging plants makes for a pleasant, if slightly jungle-like, dining experience.
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San Remo
An international menu, long on Italian and with a slant towards fish, tables with bright cloths facing the street, Moroccan background music and a mix of clientele – expats, tourists, local businessmen – make this a lively spot with a great cultural crossroads feel.
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El Andaluz
The chef-cum-owner is from Córdoba - and it shows. The menu includes salmorejo (thick, gazpacho-style soup) and gambas al ajillo (shrimps in garlic sauce). Vegetarians are catered to (rare in Andalusia!) with a tasty leek pie with vegetables.
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Aridane Grill-Restaurante
Although the grilled meats and fish are delicious, Aridane's real claim to fame is its fabulous setting inside a Canarian patio, where you can see the flames of the grill dancing and even peek above the patio walls to catch a glimpse of mountains in the distance.
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Casa Juan
Delicious, fresh seafood is the main attraction at most restaurants in La Restinga. This friendly place, popular with locals, is no exception, serving up hearty portions of fresh fish, soup, salad, papas (potatoes) and grilled meats. Warmly recommended.
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Restaurante Amaiur
Next to a 19th-century palace, this special-occasion place is of similar vintage with elegant dining rooms, parquet floors and high ceilings. Dishes like peppers stuffed with codfish, monkfish with prawns, and caviar should placate the most discerning gourmet.
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El Maño
Trip along the long wooden bridge to reach this rare Spanish restaurant, which includes dishes from all over the country, including salmorejo (a thick, garlicky gazpacho) from Cordoba, black pudding from Burgos and a Valencian-style paella.
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La Papaya
This long-time favourite has a series of small dining rooms with rock-face walls and a pretty patio with adjacent leafy garden. There are Canarian touches to the menu, including the succulent salmon in malvasía (Malmsey wine) sauce.
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Restaurante Posada San Borondón
A little more interesting than some, and offering a variety of Spanish food, is this restaurant where the grilled sole touched our soul. It's easy to find, right next to the steamship exterior, complete with portholes and funnels, of Bar Barco.
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Casa Miranda
A three-storey Canarian mansion built in 1730, this was the family home of 18th-century Venezuelan president Francisco de Miranda. Nowadays you can get seafood and grilled meats in the fine dining room, or order tapas in the downstairs bar.
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La Roca
Both fish and meat lovers coincide on the beach-side terrace of La Roca, where the sound of crashing waves may interfere with conversation - all the better to concentrate on dishes of fried baby cuttlefish, grouper fillet and leg of lamb.
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