There are always those bizarre attractions, right? You know the ones. The world's biggest ball of yarn, the oldest restaurant, the first, the biggest the fastest, the something "est". A lot of tourist attractions in Spain are based around cultural value and heritage or natural beauty but there are some things that are just unique or strange and worth seeing so you can say you did and have a fun anecdote.
What's even better still, however, is when you can also get something good to eat! Well, look no further than Lanzarote, where you can eat food cooked in a volcano!
Just find a vacation rental in the Canary Islands and head to Lanzarote to visit El Diablo restaurant for a meal unlike anything else you've ever tried before.
What's even better still, however, is when you can also get something good to eat! Well, look no further than Lanzarote, where you can eat food cooked in a volcano!
Just find a vacation rental in the Canary Islands and head to Lanzarote to visit El Diablo restaurant for a meal unlike anything else you've ever tried before.
Located on the side of a volcano in the middle of the Timanfaya National Park in the Canary Islands, El Diablo was founded in 1970 by Cesar Manrique, who decided that a volcano (that was a tourist attraction as it was), was the best place to establish a formal restaurant in the area.
Architects Eduardo Caceres and Jesus Soto were hired to take on the task of constructing a restaurant in such a precarious and strange location. In order to make it work, they had to lay 9 layers of basalt rock in lieu of digging down to build a foundation.
The actual cooking is done on a giant grill that is laid across a volcano opening. Six feet below is some softly bubbling lava at 400 degrees Celsius; the perfect place to grill some meat and fish, of course!
Architects Eduardo Caceres and Jesus Soto were hired to take on the task of constructing a restaurant in such a precarious and strange location. In order to make it work, they had to lay 9 layers of basalt rock in lieu of digging down to build a foundation.
The actual cooking is done on a giant grill that is laid across a volcano opening. Six feet below is some softly bubbling lava at 400 degrees Celsius; the perfect place to grill some meat and fish, of course!
Enjoying a three course meal on the side of a volcano is not something you get to try out every day so why not pay a visit and have a one-of-a-kind foodie experience? You don't worry about the safety factor either - there has been no eruptions since the 19th century, so you should be pretty safe.
Photo credits
picture 1: Edgar Jansen / CC BY-SA 2.0;
picture 2: Son of Groucho / CC BY 2.0
picture 1: Edgar Jansen / CC BY-SA 2.0;
picture 2: Son of Groucho / CC BY 2.0
