Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
€€ ・ Contemporary
Bib Gourmand: good quality, good value cooking
Moral occupies an old mansion that skilfully combines the building’s cutting-edge design with its original structure and floor. The key tenets here are a constant desire to improve alongside plenty of enthusiasm from the young chefs (Icíar and Juan Carlos) at the helm. They are now following their own dream having previously worked in leading restaurants (Icíar Pérez, for example, was the chef at Poemas by Hermanos Padrón). Their cuisine, which first and foremost aims to showcase the flavours of the island, is centred around a concise à la carte plus a creatively inspired tasting menu, with a continual focus on excellent technique and superb textures (as we discovered in the skate with a mussel and parsley sauce). The tasting menu also provides a perfect opportunity to explore the culinary identity of the Canary Islands in more detail.