Restaurants
The marina offers a wide range of restaurants, all with al fresco seating along the waterfront. In the last two years, a few restaurants had to close down and others popped up instead. When I was there in March, the Indian restaurant was just about to open. The menus in all restaurants I visited were available in English.
There are plenty of restaurants along Paseo Maritimo.
Amura
This is the most expensive restaurant in Puerto Calero. It was recommended by Michelin in 2008 and isn’t located along the Paseo Maritimo (meaning seaside walk), the seaside promenade where you’ll find most of the other marina eateries. It’s at the end of the promenade in a white colonial-style building. Amura is renowned for its seasonal Mediterranean menu. In March they had a three-course meal special for 30 euros including a glass of wine. If you order a la carte, you’re more likely to pay between 40 and 50 euros per person. During the high season, the restaurant is open every day except Monday. When we were there in March, it was only open three evenings a week so you have to check for opening times in the low season.
Café Milla
This was a good choice for breakfast and bistro-style food. They have eggs in any form imaginable and the omelettes with mushrooms and spinach we had were very tasty. The prices for omelettes and salads are around 5 euros, fish and meat dishes are a bit more expensive. Overall this is one of the cheapest restaurants in the marina.
El Tomate
El Tomate serves traditional Canarian cuisine like rabbit and squid. In March, they offered a three-course meal including a drink for 10 euros.
There’s a Tex-Mex place next door which looks like a separate restaurant from outside but is actually part of El Tomate. There’s a different menu for the Mexican-themed part with favourites such as nachos, burritos, quesadillos and fajitas. Corona (which, weirdly, is called Coronita in Spain) is available to make the experience complete.
El Tomate serves El Grifo wine, supposedly Lanzarote’s finest but certainly its oldest winery, established in 1775. The second time we went there, we had the Rosado which went well with the fajitas. With the bottle of wine, our bill came to about 40 euros.
La Pappardella
The cuisine is Italian and while it was nothing to write home about, the food was fine. The pasta I had was slightly overcooked but otherwise it was good. The pizzas looked good, too, but we didn’t try them. It was one of the more expensive dinners, we spent around 20 euros per person.
McSorley’s Irish Bar
As the name suggests, you’ll get typical Irish and British pub food at McSorley’s. They are open daily from 9am to 1am and have three menus depending on the time of day. Breakfast is served until 1pm and McSorley’s is the place to go for a fry-up. The Big Breakfast is 5.50 euros, if you go for a bacon sandwich it will set you back 3.25 euros and toast and jam are a reasonable 2 euros. Between 1pm and 5pm you’ll get sandwiches and jacket potatoes for around 6 euros, from 5pm to 11pm it’s pub food classics like fish and chips for 8 euros and meat pies in the 8 to 9 euros range. There is a daily specials board, too. The fish and chips are supposed to be good but you have to get there early – when we went for a late-ish dinner at 9pm, it had sold out and the alternatives weren’t good. They do a Sunday roast, too.
There are a number of other restaurants where I didn’t eat, the Taberna del Puerto and Café Parisienne among them.