‘Velada’, the app that discovers restaurants arrives in the Canary Islands – Spain’s News

‘Velada’, the application that helps you choose the perfect place for lunch and dinner, arrived a year ago with the intention of bringing its users gastronomic proposals adapted to their needs.

After triumphing in Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Malaga, Marbella, Cadiz and Seville, he landed in the Canary Islands. On March 31, this Spanish start-up
reaches the archipelago to recommend, thanks to the experience and support of local experts, the ideal restaurant in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote and La Palma. The selection in the Canary Islands has been carried out by Javier Suárez, director of Por Fogones, the gastronomic project of CanariasNow and ElDiario.es, and Cris Hernández, gastronomic journalist for 8 years at Cadena Ser Tenerife, along with other collaborators.

This 100% digital guide, which has changed the way of discovering restaurants, arrives in the Canary Islands to help find the perfect establishment for every occasion. Canary users
you can discover the best places thanks to the more than 100 filters designed to cover the needs of each moment. In addition, Velada becomes a major player in the digitization of the restaurant sector in the Canary archipelago, positioning itself as the most complete restaurant search app with the best selection on the islands. The app combines
best features of classic guides and backup apps, creating a project that has already passed the
70,000 users in a year and is experiencing a monthly growth of 30%. Velada is positioned as the perfect tool to promote Canarian gastronomy among national and international tourists, since the app has many valuable users: gastronomy lovers who have already discovered the effectiveness of Velada in destinations that already have it , the big cities of Spain.

‘Evening’ arrives in the Canary Islands

The offer regarding Canarian food is one of the most special in Spain, based on tradition, richness of ingredients, variety and influences of all kinds. For this reason, and for its excellent gastronomic quality, ‘Velada’ has decided to land on the islands to bring us closer, in a simple and personalized way, to the best restaurants in the archipelago. With the app you will find what you are looking for, as it offers a complete analysis of the best restaurants on the islands. From the platform
you can filter through the recommendations of local experts, access useful information, such as menu and price, and book and call directly from the application. In addition, it incorporates the possibility of seeing the restaurants near you thanks to the ‘map view’.

The recommendations of Suárez, Hernández and the other collaborators cover a wide variety of options, from the most traditional Canarian establishments, seafood restaurants, guachinches, the best Japanese, to haute cuisine restaurants.

The launch of the gastronomic application reaches the Canary Islands with a selection of 150 restaurants distributed between Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote and La Palma.

Contrabando, El Padrino and Tabaiba are some of the options that stand out among the selection in Gran Canaria, which include proposals from
fusion cuisine,
traditional food or product haute cuisine. In Tenerife, experts opt for restaurants such as El Silbo Gomero, El Rincón de Juan Carlos,

La Sandunga, Bárbaro, San Ho or Muelle Viejo, among all the options available in the app. La Bodega de Santiago, more traditional cuisine, and SeBe, also traditional renewed with a sure bet: its rice dishes, are added to the restaurants that Velada, in collaboration with his experts, has chosen for Lanzarote. Finally, in La Palma the options are diverse, and traditional classics such as El Campesino or Briesta and contemporary ones such as El Jardín de La Sal or El Sitio stand out.

digital entrepreneurs

The three founders of Velada met working in the innovation area of ​​Telefónica. David Martín Suárez, Alexandra Papadopoulos and Manuel Casas Barrado have led projects at other large companies such as Uber, Mozilla Firefox and Google. In total, they have been designing, developing and selling digital products for more than 30 years, which have been used by millions of users in Spain, Latin America and the United Kingdom.

This new release in the Canary Islands is especially relevant for David Martín,
one of its creatorsa native of Tenerife, who has developed his professional career in the technology sector in Madrid.

«
The Canary Islands have a very strong gastronomic culture and now it is an honor for me to be part of the technological development of the sector, helping to give it visibility and advancing together«, says David Martin.