Where to eat at and around Elba Palace Golf Boutique Hotel

Close by, on foot or by car

• Beach Club Chiringuito La Isla

  7 min by car

  Beach club on an islet over the sea · €€

  The Elba group's own beach club, on a small islet off Playa de la Guirra, reached by a walkway from the beach in front of the group's seaside hotels. Tables on the terrace and in the dining room look straight out over the ocean, and the kitchen serves traditional Canarian dishes alongside international plates, and the bar mixes cocktails and long drinks. Lunch runs from noon to 4pm every day. It is also the one table here you can reach without a car: the hotel's free shuttle stops at the Atlántico centre, 8 minutes away on foot along the front.

  Walk inPaseo Marítimo, Caleta de Fuste

• La Frasquita

  9 min by car

  Fish restaurant with no menu · €€

  A Caleta de Fuste fish restaurant with more than 30 years behind it, reopened in 2017 after a refurbishment, with a terrace and Canarian wines. There is no written menu: the waiters bring a tray of whatever the local boats landed that day, you choose your fish and how it is cooked, on the griddle, opened flat a la espalda, baked or in mojo. Start with the fish soup or the gofio. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 1pm to 4pm and 6pm to 10pm; closed on Monday and Tuesday. It is busy, so book.

  Reserve aheadCalle Pitera, Caleta de Fuste

• Los Caracolitos

  9 min by car

  Fish restaurant by the salt pans · €€

  A small restaurant on the shore at Salinas del Carmen, the hamlet just south of Caleta de Fuste named after its salt pans by the sea. It specialises in fresh fish, served on a terrace looking over the water, so ask what came in that morning. Make a half day of it with the Museo de la Sal beside the salt pans, which tells the story of salt on Fuerteventura. Open Monday to Friday, noon to 9pm; closed at weekends.

  Walk inSalinas del Carmen 22

• Ascensión

  9 min by car

  Steaks and modern plates in Caleta de Fuste · €€€

  The town's most polished dinner, in the Puerta del Sol plaza. The menu leans to steaks and sauces: the house fillet with a port reduction, mushrooms and onion at €29.50, fillet medallions wrapped in bacon with black pudding at €28.50, and a catch of the day at market price with garlic, parsley and lime. Starters include garlic prawns flambéed in brandy at €14.50 and a baked Camembert with palm honey. Dinner only, from 6pm; closed on Sunday. For now it takes cash or an instant bank transfer, not cards. Book ahead.

  Reserve aheadCalle Alcalde Marcial Sánchez Velázquez, Puerta del Sol, Caleta de Fuste

• Bar OliverFly

  9 min by car

  Cocktail and tapas bar · €

  The place for a proper drink in Caleta de Fuste, in the La Cúpola centre a few streets back from the beach. The barmen are trained to mix the classics as well as their own signature cocktails, and there is a full list of spirits, with freshly made tapas to go with them and live music. Groups of eight or more can book; otherwise just turn up. Open from 10am to 11pm every day except Wednesday, when it is closed.

  Walk inCentro Comercial La Cúpola, Calle Alcalde Juan Évora Suárez, Caleta de Fuste

• Casa Matoso

  21 min by car

  Canarian grill in a farming village · €€

  A family grill in Valles de Ortega, a farming village in the middle of the island, with a bar, two dining rooms and a covered terrace. This is the place for the island's goat: Majorero goat stew at €12.50, fried kid at €18 and goat soup at €5, with papas arrugadas at €5, sweet potato with almogrote at €9 and croquettes of Canarian black pig at €10. Meats from the grill run to a mixed parrillada at €22.50 a head. Lunch from 12.30pm to 4pm daily except Wednesday and Thursday, and dinner from 7pm to 10pm on Friday and Saturday. Book by phone.

  Reserve aheadCalle Gayria 9 B, Valles de Ortega

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