Eating Tapas In Lanzarote (Or anywhere else!)

What should you order? What is a tapa? What's a Racion? Which dishes should you order? How many?
We answer these and many other questions, as well as showing you can explaining about ten of our favourite dishes to order.
#lanzarote #tapas

[@user-sb5io8du7r]

Thank you so much for your very informative talk on tapas. My wife and I are frequent visitors to the wonderful lsland of Lanzarote, we always enjoy the different ways tapas is presented at the local restaurants and bar's to be found all over the island. My mouth is watering at the thought of a tapas on our next visit. Regards Chris uk.

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Mine was watering while I was filming it! 😄

[@Mave495]

Great information Tapas was confusing to us thank you

[@Alison20243]

Hi Mike, great video. HD Resorts in Costa Teguise seems to be back on line for next year.You may be right about the refurbish.

[@Richie-h1x]

Enjoyed the video on Tapas, I have previously swerved Tapas restaurants as I thought the dishes were predominantly fish and unfortunately my wife is not a big fish eater, but a restaurant serving Tapas will definitely will on my list when I visit Lanzarote in July, thanks again for some great content 👍

[@johnmurphy2279]

Thanks Mike. We where in Arriciffe in a bar on the main road in to town (on the front). We were fascinated that with every round of drinks they gave us 'free' tapas. You're video answered the question as to why. Thanks again.

[@LanzaroteInformation]

A few still do it here...

[@suelong3273]

Thankyou for the very informative vlog Mike We have just spent a week in Playa Blancae but not impressed with the weather.😮

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Yep, the weather has certainly been weird here over the last few weeks, after the hottest, driest winter I can remember in 24 years.

[@avanolan_1180]

Excellent, enjoy garlic mushrooms as well

[@CLAIREFLEWITT]

Thanks Mike, your opening line was perfect. Can’t wait to eat Tapas now!

[@nicklodge7770]

Great info as always and loved the birds in the background. There is a fab pinxtos cafe/restaurant in the Open Mall, we’ve been a couple of times and really enjoyed it.

[@janiceturton7756]

Great Video Mike. My hubby has not been keen to try Tapas over the years, but our daughter is coming with us to Lanzarote at Xmas so i will get a chance again to try them with her again. i remember before pandemic she and i went to Teguise and had a lovely lunch eating lots a different things with a couple of glasses of local wine. Are there any nice places in Haria or Orzola we could go to as planning a trip that way .

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Loads - in Haria, the sociedad by the church, or if you want tapas with a twist, La Puerto Verde, and in Orzola La Maresía.

[@timmy2916]

i was disapointed you said corriander like an american. your a good English man and this threw me

[@user-sn2jj1xp5r]

Yes thats the one Really enjoying all your videos

[@craiglightowler8922]

Thanks for this video because I fall into the category of not having a clue what the dishes are. Please can you make a video in relation to public transport from the airport to the various towns? Is there a service bus from the airport to the main bus station in Arreciffe and how often it runs etc? Many thanks for your videos.

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Thank you Craig. The bus company has a great website, and an even better app, which should answer your questions: arrecifebus.com/en/

[@trevorbaldwin2935]

Did I miss mention of Sardines? One of my favourite tapas dishes

[@LanzaroteInformation]

I love sardines, too, but we don't see them on menus here as often as I'd like.

[@suecripps67]

Very informative. Love eating Tapas when we’re in Lanzarote. I have a few earmarked to try in Playa Blanca as we were very disappointed by what used to be our favourite go to last year.

[@johnbailey9360]

Great video

[@stratman7810]

Interesting video and I am am not knocking it and if people enjoy what they see as tapas good for them but, and I say this without wishing to offend you, the title of the video should have been Tourist Tapas in Lanzarote. This is because my wife and I have spent a vast amount of time in the peninsular before settling in Fuerteventura permanently and tapas there are different. Normally, except in venues who want to cater for tourists in places like Benidorm, tapas aren't usually eaten sitting down and, if there are any seats inside and you use those, you often get charged more. This is something exploited by the chain Cañas y Tapas for unsuspecting people. Tapas are more of a social thing and you go from bar to bar mixing with friends, standing at the bar or around a high table. They are not looked at as a meal. You don't get a menu either, you just go to the bar where the food is displayed and point at one or two and have them with a beer or other small drink.

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Our videos are aimed at tourists visiting Lanzarote. The tapas you describe, going from bar to bar, or even tabanco to tabanco, which we also enjoy when we visit the peninsular, simply isn't available here, so talking about it in a video would be irrelevant for our channel.

[@stratman7810]

@@LanzaroteInformation I did write it a bit tongue in cheek but I see you have visited Jerez. We found it quite a pleasant place. Another place we quite like when the weather is OK is the Basque Country including Bilbao. The sport there seems to be having the Basque/Northern Spain pinxtos, a sort of larger tapa, and seeing how many you can avoid paying for. Of course there are the on a stick type Andalusian pinchos, which we have in a local bar which caters a lot for Andalusian ex-pats who most of our friends are. Mucho Betis.

[@johnfoy4894]

Great video ..learned a lot

[@MrWesternDuke]

Now I am REALLY hungry!

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Me too!

[@user-sn2jj1xp5r]

Hi enjoyed your video I always thought tapas originated from innkeeper's in spain putting a simple slice of bread on to a customers wine or beer glass to keep the flies out of their drinks? Our go to tapas bar is Katherine in Playa Blanca Spanking fresh ingredients very nicely presented by friendly staff at reasonable prices

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Yep, that's what the internet says, but I don't buy it. I've never had a fly in my beer glass, have you?

[@user-sn2jj1xp5r]

I was not informed of this on the Internet but by several historians on Spanish food Never believe Internet! Made sense as lots of inns had animals in their court yards many years in the past I agree have never had fly in a beer but often in my wine little tiny black flies not just in spain but around Europe and uk

[@stratman7810]

@@LanzaroteInformation I live in Fuerteventura and I definitely have had flies get in my beer when sitting inside or outside at a bar.

[@LanzaroteInformation]

@@stratman7810 I've drunk a fair few beers over the 25 years I've lived here, and never had a fly in one. Sorry to hear you've had trouble with flies over there. Maybe it's the beer?

[@anthonykavanagh1510]

excellent video thank you

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@mattgeorge1991]

Hi Mike, where’s the best place to get tapas in PDC? Good video thanks.

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Try Vino + by The Fariones, and Taberna Niño.

[@CKnox-wm6ge]

Nice one, Mike, very useful! I do have a suggestion for future; the restaurant at Campesino, we find it a bit of a mystery. The waiters don’t seem to speak much, if any, English & our Spanish isn’t very good. So not sure what they have available to eat, how you order, if it’s tapas, do they have a menu, what is pricing like.

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Here's their menu in English: cactlanzarote.com/en/menus/casa-museo-del-campesino/

[@raymondvalenti9948]

Great info 👍

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Thanks for watching!

[@stephenpelaineg]

Great video as usual. I'm an avid viewer to your channel and we watch every Saturday morning.can you recommend a decent tapas bar in Costa teguise?tried tapas last year in fuertuventura and adore the ham croquettes.not a lover of fish but anything else I will give a go

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Big choice in Costa Teguise. Our faves are Bocadito, Moises Pintxos for amazing pintxos and Esquina in Púeblo Marinero.

[@stephenpelaineg]

@@LanzaroteInformation know it well.we will give it a go when we come in December for Christmas and new year.cheers

[@stephenhope1822]

Hi Mike, great video. Where’s the best place to get tapas in Costa Teguise?

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Bocadito, Esquina and Moises Pintxos.

[@user-sn2jj1xp5r]

Should have said Kathdral tapas bar!

[@LanzaroteInformation]

Never heard of it. Where is it?

[@user-sn2jj1xp5r]

@@LanzaroteInformation midway Playa Blanca promenade Tapas or Raciones

[@LanzaroteInformation]

@@user-sn2jj1xp5r Ah, I think you must mean La Katedral?