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Many of the town's restaurants are located along its seafront strip and specialize in seafood. The most strikingly positioned of these is El Caleton, between the Castillo de San Miguel and the waves that crash into the town's volcanic rock pools. The restaurant offers a wide selection of reasonably priced fish and meat dishes, including light snacks such as sandwiches and soups, though the food is generally nothing special. A better bet for good seafood is the slightly more expensive and grander Casa Gaspar , Avda República de Venezuela 20 (closed Sun), beside the town's harbour. A good selection of fresh fish and seafood - what's on offer depends on the luck of the local catch - can be picked from an iced display and is priced by weight. Further back towards the town centre, at no. 9 on the same street is Bar Bacco , which serves excellent pizzas, though it's only open Friday, Saturday and Sunday after 7pm and so popular that you're likely to have to wait for a table.

For good, inexpensive food it's also worth investigating the bars and bistros that are scattered about the town's seafront and centre, around the Plaza de la Libertand. Casa Ramón , Esteban de Ponte 4, is a particularly good choice, not so much for the limited menu of excellent seafood dishes, or the distinctive, spicy home-made mojo , but more for the atmosphere of the old, dingy wood-clad restaurant and the manner of its elderly proprietor, who makes you feel as though you've dropped by your Canarian grandmother for lunch.