Nómada restaurant, in La Laguna Gran Hotel

Nómada is the traditional, market-based restaurant of La Laguna Gran Hotel, at Calle Nava y Grimón 18, on the edge of La Laguna's historic centre. It has its own entrance from the street and also access from inside the hotel, so you do not need to be a guest. It is the meal that fits if you come down from the Anaga mountains via Las Mercedes, or if you return by bus from Cruz del Carmen to the La Laguna interchange, about ten minutes' walk away.

Local produce with an outside eye

The cooking starts from Spanish produce, from sea and land according to the season, with some influence from other cuisines and more recent techniques. The menu runs from fresh starters, such as tartares and carpaccios, to heartier fish and meat dishes, and is designed for ordering to share. The website does not publish the menu with specific dishes or prices: ask when booking what is in season and what it costs.

A dining room in the house of the Guerra y Hoyo family

The hotel occupies a noble house from 1776, that of Fernando Guerra y Hoyo, an Enlightenment figure of La Laguna who held gatherings there; it later became a teacher-training school and, in the mid-20th century, the Don Álvaro tobacco factory. It opened as a hotel in 2017. The Nómada dining room is decorated with nods to that history of the district and carefully chosen furniture: you eat indoors, with no terrace that the website mentions.

Sunday, midday only

It is open Monday to Saturday from 13:00 to 23:00 and on Sunday from 13:00 to 16:30, so it works for Sunday lunch after a morning at Cruz del Carmen, but not for dinner that day. Book by phone on 614 09 07 21, which they recommend above all for weekends, dinners, groups and special dates. If you are staying at the hotel, you can order from the menu to your room through its app, within the restaurant's hours.

If not Nómada

In the same building is Verodes, the hotel's other kitchen, with reinterpreted Canarian recipes: it is open every day from 13:00 to 16:00 and from 19:30 to 23:00, and is the option if you want to dine on a Sunday without leaving the house. Sleeping upstairs, at La Laguna Gran Hotel, gives you both tables without leaving the building.

Getting to the centre of La Laguna

Parking in the centre of La Laguna is difficult and many of the streets are pedestrianised: use a public car park or come by tram from Santa Cruz. From Cruz del Carmen it is about 25 minutes by car via Las Mercedes.