Traditional Guachinches in Tenerife

The old guachinche is increasingly in danger of extinction as they have been replaced by more modern ones, with better services, variety of dishes and more welcoming places.

However, the traditional guachinche is very much in demand, as it is something hard to findand want to visit him as many residents as those who are on a walk on the island of Tenerife.

In fact, having a real guachinche today is a big challenge, a large amount of standards to comply to certify that we are in a traditional guachinche.

Among them, drink is only served own wine and water, not allowed to open more than 3 months per year, can only be in letter various dishes and we'll find a distinctive outside the place with a «V».

What's a traditional guachinche like?

The traditional guachinches usually have an appearance rustic and old, since it was the place where too the wine was made to later sell it next to several food dishes.

This makes them located in garages of houses, terraces or wineryas in the case of the Guachinche Casa Perico.

Tables are used with tablecloths and on this one paper, in some guachinches large rolls of wood are used as Buttoca.

The Bread With the pair of breads you can not miss and the typical dishes such as garbanzas, old clothes, meat at parties or steps.

Finally, a traditional guachinche custom is to bring the wine, either «a fourth» (1 / 4L), «mean» (1 / 2L) or a liter of wine when we sit on the table to taste it.

Best traditional guachinches of Tenerife

We've collected the best traditional guachinche from northern Tenerife. They are distributed between Los Realejos, La Orotava, Santa Ursula, La Victoria and Tacoronte.

Each of them has small differences that make them uniquebut they all share something in common: The Traditional Guachinche.

Guachinche Casa Perico

The first of these is found on the heights of Los Realejos, above the Holy Cross, with great views in good weather days.

«Perico Del Valle» is an icon for the world of the guachinche, since he's been with this business his whole life, getting to get large amounts of wine.

This guachinche is most authentic, located in the garage and the cellar of your house, where we can have lunch next to your barrels.

As dishes they usually offer fabulous, cod, goat meat, party meat, stampede eggs or salad.

It should be noted that the wine of Casa Perico is white wine, something not very common, but very typical in the heights of La Orotava and Los Realejos.

Guachinche is never far

Reaching a guachinche can be a challenge on many occasions, as these are often located in remote locations and not accessible, since there are the farms with vineyards for the manufacture of wine.

Something gives us to think that It's never Far it's not that close... because, to get there, we'll have to go over La Corujera and get into a Kilometric road which turns out to be as beautiful as long and pronounced, hence the name of the guachinche.

Once we get to the parking lot, we will be able to observe extraordinary views in days of good weather.

As regards It's never Farit is a place that is recommended to visit if you want to eat at the body of the king in a guachinche characteristic of Tenerife, as here it is eaten as anywhere else.

They offer dishes such as chickpeas, salsa pots, chistoras with potatoes, goat meat and roast. The most impressive thing about this guachinche is the typical of Santa Ursula that are like «Sheets» long.

They also serve other types of meat such as chops, bichillo, re chulet or crotch.

Guachinche La Brevera 

From Camino a It's never Far We ran into the Guachinche La Brevera, another traditional guachinche with own wine, which is a luxury for lovers of good wine and the guachincheros dishes.

This place has good services, since it has parking and a Good deal. staff, in addition to being very well-setboth the living room and the terrace with ornaments and traditional objects.

We can see in the image that has been awarded as the best Santa Ursula wine of 2022, something difficult to achieve taking into account the cache of Santa Ursula in this field.

As dishes stand out the roast and the frying, the grill is also its specialty, with a good grilled meat like chops or steak.

In this last photograph we found the mythical dessert guachinchero, «timba», made up of cookies Tostada, white and sweet guayabo cheese.

Guachinche Los Felipes

The Guachinche Los Felipes is one of the more authentic guachinche that we can find in the municipality of Santa Ursula.

This small business is led by two brothers, who themselves are in charge of the production of wine and the subsequent service in the guachinche.

As for the property we see that it is located in a garage where the main living room is located, also, they have a kind of «reserved» composed of a table for the customers more «vip»It should be noted that it is also the place where they also make wine for subsequent marketing.

It's a place that counts on good wine and a very good home foodwhere the fried stand out.

In relation to its dishes they offer white cheese, yellow rice, fried chicars, fried rabbit, cherne, fabada, meat with potatoes and «eggs at stampede».

As a good guachinche he also has his desserts. It usually has tyramisu and a box of potato rosquets and angel hair that are delicious.

Guachinche Casa Nino

We finished our small list of traditional guachinches in the municipality of Tacoronte with the Guachinche Casa Nino.

It's one of the few. typical guachinches that we will find past El Sauzal, as these often belong to the northern part of the island, and not so much to the metropolitan area. 

In fact, whoever visits him is surprised with the deal, the service, its excellent dishes, the quality of the wine and the authenticity of the guachinche.

It's more than verified that it's one of the best places to eat. salted cherne with potatoes and octopus fresh.

In addition, even if the letter is small, everything is very rich; like white cheese, chops in sauce and steak and pork chops.

It should be stressed that specialty is the fish, so we recommend that you be the dish to choose if you want to visit this amazing Traditional Guachinche of Casa Nino.

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