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The president, Oswaldo Betancort, has signed a protocol with Tourism of Valladolid to organize the 1st Regional Tapas Contest, valid for the National
The president of Lanzarote Town Council, and also responsible for the Economic Promotion Area, Oswaldo Betancort, This Friday at the Institution's headquarters, the island's candidacy to organize what would be the first edition of the Canary Islands Regional Pinchos and Tapas Competition, under the license of Valladolid National Tapas Competition. Specifically, The president has signed a protocol of intentions with the councilor of Turismo, Events and City Brand of the Valladolid City Council, Blanca Jimenez.
The person responsible for Council has highlighted the importance of opening “new market niches” in the main economic activity of Lanzarote y The Gracious, convinced that both parties will strengthen during the coming months – as established in the document- holding workshops with professionals from the sector and presentations of the gastronomic offer in each of the two tourist destinations.
The signed collaboration agreement will enable, besides, a series of actions in different advertising media to promote both destinations among their business owners. But the Lanzarote president has especially highlighted the relevance of launching what will be the first Canary Islands Regional Pinchos and Tapas Competition planned for the year 2025: “This understanding between Lanzarote Town Council y Valladolid Tourism will facilitate the promotion of the gastronomic offer crossed between both cities, within the framework of Taste Spain”, has pointed out Betancort, considering also that “this type of events are presented as an opportunity to improve the sector in terms of training.”, competitiveness and professionalization, and they represent a boost for young and entrepreneurial people”.
Also, The joint initiative will facilitate the winning regional chef of the Competition in Lanzarote have direct access to the final of the Valladolid National Tapas Competition, which faces less than fifty candidates after a tough selection and which celebrates its twentieth edition next November. This has been confirmed by the president of the Council, who has transferred to his technicians the order to implement everything necessary to make this gastronomic event a reference in the entire Canary Islands.
The advisor of the Lanzarote Tourist Centers, Angel Vazquez, for his part, has valued “the infinite possibilities offered by an agreement that will make Lanzarote in the best setting for holding the regional meeting of those destinations that have a fundamental element for their projection and tourism promotion on the cover”.
Lanzarote will attend the National Competition
After signing this Protocol of Intentions, he International Museum of Contemporary Art (MIAC) – San José Castle, in Reef, hosted the state presentation of the XX National Pinchos and Tapas Contest City of Valladolid, and of VIII World Tapas Championship City of Valladolid. The launch took place with the presence of the island president himself, together with a wide representation of Lanzarote businessmen and restaurateurs.
The mayor of Valladolid Turismo, Blanca Jimenez, has made known there the keys to the XX National Pinchos and Tapas Contest City of Valladolid, that this year 2024 will be held in the Millennium Dome of the 11 al 13 of November. Lanzarote y The Gracious will be represented at this outstanding event.
The councilor warned that, although we are talking about two geographically disparate territories - one is a city in the interior of the peninsula and the other is an Atlantic island- There are many things that unite them.: “Among them”, said, “our belonging to Taste Spain. Because precisely Lanzarote y Valladolid They are two founding members that we still continue today.. We are brothers in gastronomy and we have worked together for many years in Taste Spain”.
Valladolid has been presented as the 'World Capital of Tapas' through an identity seal: gastronomy. A title strengthened with the celebration of this gastronomic contest in which year after year the best tapas specialists from all over the country meet and that in this 2024 acquires special relevance with its twentieth edition. It should be noted that the contest will have France as a guest country and, during those dates, will also take place VIII World Tapas Championship City of Valladolid.
Oswaldo Betancort -who before the start of the event thanked the island business community for the joint work developed during his first year in office.- He then spoke of the “opportunity” of taking advantage of the international gastronomic forum of Valladolid to promote Lanzarote as a gastronomic destination. “This will be a new push to continue improving the results of the brand positioning and image of the Lanzarote and Graciosa destination”, Betancort recalled about this new foray into miniature gastronomy proposals..
Tasting of the best tapas
Los Art Centers, Culture and Tourism of Lanzarote During this meeting they presented their tapa 'La Santa Prawn Salad on Crispy Rice', a tapa created by the entity's chefs and that "represents a small part of the much and good that our renewed gastronomic proposal offers", explained the counselor of the Centers, Angel Vazquez.
In addition to the chef Pedro Garcia, restaurant manager San José Castle, The champion chef of the National Tapas Competition City of Valladolid in 2023, Teo Rodríguez, who has been in charge of preparing their winning cover for the attendees: ‘Pucela Roll’.
This young chef also spoke before the public, recounting the vital change that his victory in the famous Valladolid competition meant for him. And he encouraged the local restaurant sector to continue promoting public-private collaboration to strengthen the already internationally consolidated gastronomic offer that it exhibits. Lanzarote y The Gracious.
