The president of Lanzarote Town CouncilOswaldo Betancort, presented this Tuesday in the Nivaria room of the Iberostar Heritage Grand Mencey hotel in Santa Cruz de Tenerifethe X edition of Saborea Food and Wine Festival Lanzarote which will be held at the Real Villa de Teguise November 25 and 26.
The president of the Lanzarote Cabildo highlighted that Saborea Lanzarote is presented outside the island, although the official call will take place on November 14 in Lanzarote. “We are talking about an event that was born in 2010 and that year after year was consolidated as a food and wine meeting forum for the island to become a fundamental part of the change of image and economic stimulus for Lanzarote, but also of Canary Islands as a gastronomic and tourist destination.”
“Today we are here to present to you the most ambitious, and I hope successful, proposal of all the editions of Saborea Lanzarote. And I assure you that it is the most ambitious because this year we will set a milestone in our work to promote the gastronomy of Lanzarote and The Graciousand in its positioning as a renowned culinary destination, and we will do it hand in hand with the sector,” highlighted the president of the Cabildo in the presentation of the event, which was attended by vice president of the Government of the Canary IslandsManuel Domínguez, the regional Minister of Agriculture, Narvay Quintero, the mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Jose Manuel Bermudezthe advisor of the CACT, Ángel Vázquez, the deputy mayor of Teguise, Eugenio Robayna, and the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, José Valle.
The Art, Culture and Tourism Centers (CACT) will take on special prominence in this new edition. As expressed by the CEO of the CACT, Ángel Vázquez, we are fulfilling the commitment of the president of the Cabildo so that the event returns to Teguise. Furthermore, “it will do so with a very special staging of the Centers, which will be the spearhead to promote a festival that will show the pride and quality of the CACT restoration network in an exhibition space unprecedented in any of the previous editions.
Tenth anniversary
This edition of Saborea Lanzarote celebrates its tenth anniversary, despite the fact that its beginnings were in 2010, and after 3 years without being held, it returns at the end of November with more force than ever to the Historical Complex of the Villa de Teguise, where different spaces will be installed: in addition to the Canary Islands stand, there will be a Taste Spainanother of Savor the Middle Atlantic, The House and the Canary Product Market and the Classrooms of Taste, Wine, and Cheese and other local products that will have as guests big names in national and international cuisine.
The Saborea Medio Atlántico space presents Porto as the guest city, which comes to this event with four restaurants, two of them with Michelin starsand that will take us to know the gastronomy of the Portuguese city, there will also be Madeira and Cape Verde with their respective cuisines, a tour of the gastronomic attributes of our closest environment.
The House and Market of Canarian Products is a space where you can take a tour through a tunnel of Canarian wine and cheese, represented by a winery and an association of cheesemakers from each island, an immersion in our gastronomic jewels. In addition, a Wine Classroom, another cheese class and another product class in general that will help those who visit us have a greater knowledge of our gastronomic culture.
The Classroom of Taste will have an intense program throughout the weekend, such as more than 10 sessions and where you can count on the most prestigious faces of our national gastronomy, including the Canary Islands, with the Padrón Brotherswith two stars, and with Jordi Cruzamong others, with three Michelin stars.
