Food & Drink
We were treated to a special press evening to check out the latest wines from some of the Lanzarote Bodegas, in the stunning setting of Jameos del Agua recently. Organised by Javier Betancort, who runs Lanzarote’s Denominación de Origen, which classifies Lanzarote’s best wines, the event showcased wines from:
I’ll give you some tasting notes later on in this piece, but let me tell you about the event first. The setting was spectacular, as you can imagine, and tables were laid out in the far cave, with the wines spotlighted in the centre. Each bodega had sent along their wine maker – these people really love their art and talk with passion about how they make their wine and what marks theirs out as being different.
There was also a Sommelier and a well known Chef amongst us, and they shared their thoughts on the wines as well.
There was some discussion about our inability in Lanzarote to produce a really world class red wine, and the answer given was that we simply don’t have the soil and the conditions to do so, but all agreed that our whites and our dessert wines are as good as anyone's. read more » |
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We were looking for somewhere for lunch, it was a weekday in July, I decided that we should walk along the seafront in Playa Honda and see what we could find.
After a short stroll along the promenade we spotted the Italian restaurant Erik .IT as Miguel fancied a pizza we opted for a table in the shade and read more » |
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Válery is not a restaurant but a high class café situated in the centre of Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote. We were in need of a caffeine hit whilst browsing the summer sales on Saturday and in a flash of inspiration I remembered that we hadn’t tried this café as yet. Válery is situated on the left hand side of the main pedestrian shopping street, it’s in a corner position and has floor to ceiling glass running along the length of the premises.
In the front window there is a tempting display of ice cream read more » |
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Journalist Eric Asimov for the New York Times published an article entitled Rosés of a Different Color on their website earlier this month following a wine tasting of twenty Spanish wines available for sale in New York.
Placed 4th on the list was a bottle of Bermejos Rosado read more » |
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We, along with hundreds of other people flocked to the re-opening of Lani’s frontline bar & restaurant La Ola in Puerto del Carmen on Thursday.
The place had been a hive of activity with workmen completing the finishing touches all day, at 8pm the traffic was at a standstill along the Avenida with everyone curious to revisit La Ola.
From street level a read more » |
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This weekend the Monumento al Campesino has a special menu to celebrate the Fiestas del Carmen. |
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The Vinos del Volcán will be held this week in the north of Lanzarote from the 12th to 15th July with various training and tasting events to promote wines from Lanzarote.
The programme opens with a presentation of wines on read more » |
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You find the best restaurants by reading reviews like this, by recommendation from friends or sometimes, by accident. We were having a drink on the Avenida Maritima in Playa Blanca, which I have already confessed is now our full-time occupation in life! A very forceful (and loud) English woman announced to a group of her friends, ‘And that..’, she said, pointing behind us, ‘is the best Italian restaurant on the whole island’. Of course, I looked round to see where she was pointing and took note of the name, L’Artista. As we often walked past it, we had noticed it before but it’s not actually on the Avenida. It’s slightly set back and on two levels but there is a great view across the sea and there is a lovely terrace area on both levels.
So we decided to give it a try as the menu had a large number of vegetarian dishes. We were not disappointed and read more » |
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