El Mesón

Tenerife


Don't be put off by the nine-language menu; locals rate this place as one of the best in town, and the owner, who’s quite a character, could talk the hind legs off a donkey. It serves an excellent array of seafood and traditional Canarian and mainland meat dishes, including succulent rabbit stew, excellent lamb shoulder and whole suckling pig (with a day's advance notice).

Finish off your meal with the complimentary homemade honey rum tipple.


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