Restaurante Cofete

Restaurante Cofete is a remote, rustic eating house at Playa de Cofete, the vast and spectacularly wild beach on the western tip of the Jandía peninsula at the southern end of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. Cofete is one of the most inaccessible beaches in the archipelago: reaching it requires driving several kilometres of unpaved dirt track through the dry Jandía hills, a route only advisable in a four-wheel drive or high-clearance vehicle. The reward at the end of this journey is extraordinary — a 12-kilometre arc of untouched sand backed by the Jandía mountains and facing the open Atlantic, with virtually no tourist infrastructure save for this single small restaurant. The restaurant's offer is entirely in keeping with its context: simple, home-cooked Canarian food, cold beer, and nothing more than the basics require. Papas arrugadas with mojo, simple fish dishes, bocadillos (filled rolls), and whatever the kitchen has prepared that day. The food is straightforward and honest rather than ambitious. The value of Restaurante Cofete is almost entirely in where it is: the opportunity to sit with a cold beer looking out at an empty Atlantic horizon across one of Europe's most remote beaches is not replicated anywhere else in Fuerteventura. The restaurant is open daily from 10:00 to 18:00 and takes no reservations. Cash only.