De Pasta De Costa
Pic from Turismo Teguise
De Pasta De Costa it’s located at Costa Teguise, Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands. I usually ask locals for the best place to eat or do a little research beforehand or follow the suggestions that Anthony Bourdain or Andrew Zimmern give at the Travel Channel, however, there was little about Costa Teguise and the places best rated on the internet were closed at the time I was hungry, cuz in Spain kitchens close at 4pm, so you gotta eat before that or starve to dead if crappy food is not an option for you.
After a little walk and looking at the menu of different places, I passed by this little white restaurant, totally empty, asked if it the kitchen was open and Tuna Carpaccio on the menu convinced me to stay.
Let me tell you it was a great choice, the tuna was really fresh, cut very thinly, served with a really good olive oil a pinch of fleur de sel and fresh black pepper and of course lemon juice, every slice of tuna you put in your mouth it seemed to melt like butter, was really juicy, all the flavors well blended, at that point I didn’t know if I was too hungry or if it actually was that good.
Then they brought the main course, butter grilled Kingklip with ruccola pesto and papas arrugadas, by then I knew I was not that hungry anymore and I would be able to tell if food was good or not, fish was perfectly cooked, they used real butter not the fake thing they use at many places, but for me the winner was the ruccola pesto, was foodgasm, seriously, I finished the potatoes and ended up eating the pesto with a spoon, too good to be true.
And to top the whole experience, service was great (place was empty so it ought to be great).
4 Paws
Ok, we’ll give it 4.5 paws because bread was really bad, as bad as most of the bread in Spain, they have an oven, it would be great if they baked their own bread, I would steal all the bread for sure.
I would highly recommend this place, regardless of the budget, it’s well worth it.
FYI: I paid for my own food, so I owe nothing to the place mentioned above. All I said it’s based solely on my personal experience and taste.
Just a quickie… I wants the stroginoffi recipe yooo’s said Easy could have
Mollie xx
Consider it done. I’ll send you an email with it
It sounds lovely, apart from the bread – of course! My bipeds often say it’s strange that in a country that serves bread with everything, the bread is almost always awful.
My typist has been there – to Costa Teguise! – she doesn’t remember that restaurant tho! Brilliant post
It was my first time at Costa Teguise, I enjoyed my time there. I found the restaurant by coincidence, believe as I writing the post I realized that the place was practically unknown, was hard to get the right address.
What did Doggy eat?
Sounds wonderful. Kitchens close at 4pm? I would be hungry all of the time…lol.
It took me a year or so to get used to it. Same thing with having dinner after 9pm.
I’m going to Europe in the fall and have been watching a lot of Anthony Bourdain lately (more than usual) to try and get names of places off the beaten track. Want to eat locally and not touristy. Haha I’m too afraid to go to the places Andrew Zimmern goes to….