Tenerife has two ways of eating well. One is the time-honoured way: potatoes, mojo, the catch of the day and a house wine in a guachinche in the north. The other is fine dining, and on this island nearly all of it sits in one place: the south-west coast, between Adeje and Guía de Isora, often inside the large hotels. With one recent, and welcome, exception in the north.

The essentials

  • Two restaurants with two stars in the MICHELIN Guide Spain 2026: M.B and El Rincón de Juan Carlos.
  • With one star, among those we have been able to confirm on the official website: Nub, San-Hô, Donaire and Haydée by Víctor Suárez, in Adeje, and El Taller Seve Díaz, in Puerto de la Cruz. The Canarian press counts a few more on the island; we do not name the ones we could not verify.
  • El Taller Seve Díaz is one of the new stars of the 2026 edition, and the only one on this list in the north.
  • Several are inside hotels in the south-west, which makes things easier if you are staying there.

The two-star tables

M.B is in Guía de Isora, at The Ritz-Carlton, Abama, and is the Tenerife home of Martín Berasategui, one of the defining names of Basque cooking.

El Rincón de Juan Carlos is the cooking of the brothers Juan Carlos and Jonathan Padrón, now at the Royal Hideaway Corales, in Adeje. Alongside M.B, it is the island’s other table with two stars.

The one-star tables

  • Nub, in Adeje, at the Bahía del Duque hotel.
  • San-Hô, also at the Royal Hideaway Corales, in Adeje.
  • Donaire, in Adeje.
  • Haydée by Víctor Suárez, which the guide now places in Adeje, after its years in La Orotava.
  • El Taller Seve Díaz, in Puerto de la Cruz, new in 2026: contemporary, creative cooking by chef Seve Díaz, and proof that fine dining can also live outside a resort.

Planning it

  • Book ahead, through each restaurant’s or hotel’s website. Tables are few.
  • Check the season and opening days. They vary through the year and we do not publish them because they change; check before you go.
  • Allow for the journey. Adeje and Guía de Isora are on the south-west coast; Puerto de la Cruz is in the north. If you sleep at one end and dine at the other, there is a motorway and a fair distance in between.
  • If you will be drinking with dinner, settle the ride home before you sit down: a taxi, or someone who is not drinking.
  • Ask for island wine. When choosing the pairing, ask about Tenerife’s wineries; beforehand, read Tenerife’s wines.

And if what you are after is the other kind of cooking, the island without a tablecloth, start with eating in Tenerife and what is a guachinche.

Our view

What is interesting about Tenerife’s map is not how many stars it holds, but what it says about the island: that its fine dining looks more and more to Canarian produce, and that a resort is no longer needed to earn the guide’s attention. If we had to choose a single booking to understand Tenerife, we would make it where the cooking carries the island’s own name.

Information as of October 2026. Distinctions from the MICHELIN Guide Spain 2026, checked on guide.michelin.com on 20 October 2026. We only name the stars we have been able to confirm on the official website. The guide presents its new selection in November 2026: check the current distinction, the season and availability in the official guide and on each restaurant’s website before booking. Calma Society has no relationship with Michelin and is not paid for inclusion or order.