Where to eat at and around Hotel Faro, a Lopesan Collection Hotel

You are at the lighthouse end of Playa de Maspalomas, where the Meloneras promenade and its restaurants begin. The hotel's own tables come first. The Ocean Restaurant serves the breakfast buffet, and dinner from 18:00 to 21:30. Callao, facing the ocean, cooks meat and fish in a Josper charcoal oven, with lunch from 13:00 to 16:00 and dinner from 18:00; book a table. Callao Beach is the beach-side bar, with DJs and light bites from 11:00 to 18:00, the Erizo Bar does lunch by the pool, SURU mixes cocktails on produce from the Finca de Veneguera from 10:30 to midnight, and Rooftop Faro serves cocktails and tapas until 23:00. The standard rate is room only, so most guests eat out, and everything below is ten minutes or less on foot: the beach house next door, a grill and a tasting menu in the Lopesan Costa Meloneras across the plaza, and tapas, Italian and Asian cooking up the Avenida del Oasis to the north.

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Within ten minutes on foot

El Senador Beach House
4 min walk
Canarian fish and rice on the beachfront, next door · €€€
The beach house next to the hotel, on the beachfront on the dunes side, and the place to eat with the sea at your feet. Order Canarian fish, cherne, medregal or sama, from the plancha with papas arrugadas and mojo picón at €32.50, or the sea bass baked in a crust of Tenefé salt and filleted at the table at €42. Paellas, for two or more and cooked to order in about 30 minutes, run from €29 a head. Start with the board of Canarian cheeses at €17.50. Listed by Guía Repsol for 2026. Open every day from 11:00 to 23:00, with DJs from 16:00.
Reserve aheadPaseo del Faro s/n
El Churrasco Meloneras
6 min walk
Argentine-style grill on the promenade · €€€
A grill house on the promenade side of the Lopesan Costa Meloneras, across the plaza, with a glazed dining room and a pergola terrace looking out at the Atlantic and the lighthouse. The grill is in full view, burning quebracho and marabú charcoal under grass-fed Aberdeen Angus from Argentina and Spanish cuts dry-aged for up to 50 days, with a long wine list to match. It is the sister of a Las Palmas steakhouse that has been grilling since 1999. Service runs straight through from 13:00 to midnight every day; book, and dress for dinner.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outBoulevard El Faro, Calle Mar Mediterráneo 1
La Bodega, Seaside Palm Beach
8 min walk
Tapas with island produce · €€
The tapas room of the Seaside Palm Beach, up the Avenida del Oasis, and the most Canarian menu on this walk: smoked salmon from Uga on Lanzarote and a selection of Uga cheeses at €17 each, dates fried in bacon with palm honey at €14, the fish of the day fried in garlic oil at €24, then frangollo, the islands' corn-semolina pudding, at €8 or a gofio brownie at €9, with Canary Island wines by the glass. Tuesday to Saturday, 18:30 to 22:00 in winter and 19:00 to 22:30 in summer, in the months it opens, which vary with the season. Book through the hotel's reception; men need long trousers.
Reserve aheadAvenida del Oasis s/n
Bar Salón, Seaside Palm Beach
8 min walk
1970s lounge bar with live music · €€
The Palm Beach's lounge bar, done by the Paris designer Alberto Pinto in bold colours and curved shapes after the glamorous hotel bars of the 1970s, with live music every night. It is the place to drink the island: Arehucas rum, or its ron miel, the honey rum Gran Canaria pours after dinner, at €8, Tropical on draught at €3.50 and Jaira craft beers brewed on the island at €5. The house cocktails, built on herbs and fresh fruit, are €12 to €13. Open every day from 18:00 to 01:00.
Walk inAvenida del Oasis s/n
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9 min walk
Neighbourhood Italian, pasta made in house · €€
A small Italian on the Avenida del Oasis that makes its own pasta, bread and pizza dough, and the easy, good-value answer on the Sunday and Monday nights when La Bodega and Bevir are shut. Order the ravioli filled with Canarian sheep's cheese in an orange, walnut and honey sauce at €19, or gnocchi with gorgonzola and walnuts at €17. Pizzas run from €9 for a marinara to €17, there is a board of Canarian cheeses at €14 and a home-made tiramisu at €8. Open from 13:00 to 23:00 straight through, every day except Wednesday.
Walk inAvenida del Oasis 9
Bevir by Lopesan
9 min walk
Gran Canaria tasting menus · €€€€
Gran Canaria on a tasting menu, inside the Lopesan Costa Meloneras across the plaza. Chef Germán Ortega cooks three menus named after places on the island: Ansite and Temisas at €90, the second leaning on vegetables and island cheese, and Amurga at €115, with Flor de Guía cheese, black pork with figs and mojo, sama with koji and a chocolate, gofio and pumpkin dessert along the way. Dinner Tuesday to Saturday from 18:30, last arrival 20:45; closed Sunday and Monday. Book, and expect the whole table to take the same menu.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outCalle Mar Mediterráneo 1, Lopesan Costa Meloneras
Samsara
10 min walk
Asian fusion for sharing, over the oasis · €€€
Upstairs on the Avenida del Oasis by the Charca, two glazed dining rooms and two terraces among the palms of the Maspalomas oasis, with a collection of Asian art and a menu built for the table rather than the plate. Order the fish carpaccio with black soy, wasabi and ginger at €29, the Thai red curry prawns at €29 or the confit duck leg with cranberry sauce at €24, and expect a €4 table charge for bread and a small appetiser. Listed by Guía Repsol for 2026. Dinner only, from 19:00 Tuesday to Sunday; closed on Monday. Book by telephone or through its website.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outAvenida del Oasis 30, 2º

Breakfast

Breakfast is a buffet in the Ocean Restaurant on the main floor, from 07:30 to 10:30, with tropical fruit, wholegrain cereals, artisan breads and hot and cold drinks. The standard rate is room only: the bed-and-breakfast rate for the same June night cost about €54 more for two, and the half-board rates include it too. SURU, in the hotel, opens at 10:30. Outside, the first of the places above to open is El Senador next door, whose beach bar serves coffee and home-made crêpes and waffles from €8, from 11:00, on the beachfront.

What to skip

The Café del Mar on the promenade, at the Lopesan Costa Meloneras, shares its name with the Ibiza sunset bar, but it is a club restaurant with cabaret, circus and acrobatic shows from 20:00 or 21:30 every night. Go for the show, not for a quiet drink at sunset; for that, SURU and Rooftop Faro are in the hotel.

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Book Hotel Faro for the lighthouse, the beach and an adults-only crowd, and pay for the Double Superior View so the sea is in the room. Plan to eat out along the promenade, and expect lively weekends.

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Last checked: October 2026

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