Calma Society · Gran Canaria

Eat & Drink

Papas, mojo and gofio, Guía's cheese set with thistle flower and the coffee grown in Agaete.

The Agaete valley between steep mountains, with orchards, fruit trees and white houses on its green floor.

Coffee in Agaete, wine beside a volcano: what Gran Canaria grows slowly

A coffee plantation in a north-western valley that won a medal in Paris in 1889, and volcanic vineyards on the rim of the Bandama caldera. Two crops with a long history, tended without hurry.

Eating in Gran Canaria: potatoes, mojo, gofio and what the uplands kept

An island that had to be its own larder cooks with what is close at hand: salt-crusted potatoes, mojo, gofio, thistle-set cheese and pork. What to order, and where people still eat as they do at home.

The cheese set with thistle flower: Flor de Guía

Canarian sheep's milk, thistle-flower rennet and three municipalities in the north of Gran Canaria. What makes Flor de Guía cheese different, its three types and the festival that celebrates it every spring.

Gran Canaria's Michelin stars: where the island eats when it means it

Five one-star restaurants in the MICHELIN Guide Spain 2026: two in the same Las Palmas hotel, one by Las Canteras beach and two on the south-west coast. Where each one is, and how to plan it.