When you feel like rice…

Few dishes we associate so much with a multitudinous meal, either with family or friends, as rice, prepared in one of its many ways, which can be several and always with local characteristics. Santa Cruz is no stranger to one of the dishes most associated with our country, paella, nor to those other varieties of rice to which we have alluded, such as arroz caldoso, with foie, duck, arroz a banda, arroz negro…

In the city center alone, there are several places where it is possible to eat rice. In Anaga Avenue there is a great variety of shops. The nightlife is important in this street, but there are also many restaurants in the area and some of them offer rice and fish. Nearby, in the central street of San José, sheltered from the sun by the shade provided by its flamboyant trees, is the tavern El Cambullón (https://www.tabernaelcambullon.com), a place that fuses the best of Canarian and Mediterranean food, and where there is room for rice.

Also in the lively and busy Plaza San Francisco, where several of the most popular restaurants in Santa Cruz are located, we also find a business specializing in rice. It is the restaurant Tela Marinera (https://telamarinerarestaurante.com) and, as its name indicates, on this occasion it will be more common for the rice to be accompanied by seafood:

There is another street closely associated with Santa Cruz’s nightlife, La Noria, which is also very rich in places where you can eat. There are plenty of establishments in La Noria where you can combine both, dining and ending up having a drink and dancing. Rice dishes are also present in them. And not far from La Noria is Imeldo Serís, where El Picú (http://www.restauranteelpicu.com/), specialized in rice and fideuás, and as it should be when it comes to rice, with a lot of importance of Valencian cuisine.

We have talked about rice dishes in Santa Cruz, but in another town of the same municipality, San Andrés, rice dishes are also plentiful, especially those with seafood. The relationship is clear, since San Andrés is a fishing village, where restaurants abound, and where rice has always been traditional in some of its forms. Of San Andres and its many places to eat, concentrated in a very short distance, we wrote more in depth in the text “From the hook to the table”, in this same web.