Supermercado 2000 Spar La Paz is known by gourmet cooks in Tenerife.
Supermercado 2000 Spar is a supermarket for groceries, mainly. It is in La Paz Puerto de la Cruz Tenerife. You can see that it had a slight name change. On one of its store fronts you read SM 2000, as you may notice in the photo.Above its entrance door you read Spar. However the old name will always stick to people's mind. The taxi rank in front of it is the taxi rank Supermercado 2000. This supermarket Supermercado 2000 Spar has almost become a landmark in Puerto de la Cruz. In fact, La Paz Puerto Cruz is a synonym of this Spar shop as well as of the Botanic Gardens Jardín Botánico. The third symbol for this elite township is the prestige Hotel El Botánico which you find about 500 meters up the main road from Supermercado 2000 Spar. Its cooks will never have a problem to find the most extravagant ingredients to prepare dishes at this shop.
Find Hotel Botanico here... TV news of October 26, 2008 about changes Puerto Cruz which will effect certain shops:There's another smaller Spar shop for groceries in Puerto Cruz belonging to the same chain like Supermercado 2000. It is on Avenida Generalisimo, a street whose name was changed to Avda. Familia Bethencourt y Molina, recently. It was also part of Television News by the same Teide TV channel that this street will be turned into a high class prestige Avenue with uniform looks which will cost more than € 1,5 million. Possibly more... Perhaps, its Spar shop will be beautified as well to resemble more Supermercado SM Spar in la Paz.
So far only big changes to Plaza Aurel have been taken on, as I noticed middle of March 2009. Once opened up again, get from Spar to this lovely square within a couple of minutes and have a rest under shady trees or watch stunning views of downtown Puerto and ocean from there...
Address of Supermercado 2000 Spar:Calle Garoe off Avda.Marquez Villanueva del Prado Opening times: Contrary to past years now from 10 a.m.to 7 p.m.The shop is not closed for Siesta any more. It's also open on Saturdays. Expensive Tenerife shop or not?Some say that Supermercado 2000 Spar has pharmacy prices but, foreigners in La Paz with a holiday home in Tenerife fill up their baskets in there to the brim, nevertheless.
Shopping in Tenerife in this beautiful Spar shop in La Paz is a treat. When I asked an elderly German gentleman in the shop if he didn't find some things a little expensive he answered: "So what, this is where we meet everybody who lives here and more!" La Paz Puerto de la Cruz is one of the most prestige tourist spots for Germans and Scandinavians, in particular, on Tenerife Island, indeed. You hear some elderly English speakings folks in la Paz, too. Its Spar is a symbol for special people, as the elderly man, I talked to, pointed out. However, I also saw many Spanish people mounting a tourist bus beside shop SM 2000. They were taken to a fiesta party on this October day. Seeing the Spaniards made me wonder, if they also shopped at Supermercado 2000 Spar. What is best about this La Paz SPAR shop?
It has a fresh bakery stall which sells real yummy pastry, too. Vitamins and mineral products are cheap at Supermercado 2000 Spar. I buy my Vitamin C and Magnesium there. The type which bubbles up in water, you know.. Find Meika Deutschlaender Wuerstchen like Frankfurter Sausages by the Also, after Christmas and Easter, for example, Supermercado 2000 Spar sells specials at reduced prices. The articles are international seasonal sweets, cookies, chocolates and sometimes cakes which are never old and tasteless. As this Spar imports almost everything from Germany to Tenerife, Germany's strict rules for freshness apply. An expiry date on any Tenerife Spar product is taken very seriously. In fact, expiry dates apply to just about every perishable product sold at Spar, even in tins. You can then spot the most amazing products which you would never buy, otherwise, very cheap. Why? The offer of Spanish food is not so great. German food leaves a much bigger and more innovative scopewhile much of Supermercado 2000 groceries come from Germany and Northern Europe as well. This is one fact I love about Tenerife shopping at Supermercado 2000 Spar. Spar frozen food cakes and desserts, sweets and ice creams
Other Spar frozen cakes were also reported as delicious and cheap by friends. And none are so sweet like those found amongst Spanish food, all over town. I was food hunting in Tenerife for the perfect cheap Black Forest Cake with real Kirschwasser and genuine Chocolate inside for a long time. Spar frozen vegetables were rediscovered by myself. I was used to food inventions in their frozen food department from South Africa. Now, I noticed they may be traced at the La Paz Spar Puerto de la Cruz, too. What I love about them is exactly that food novelties keep on coming up in this supermarket department with better and better food combinations and presentations. A dream for a foreigner with a holiday home in Tenerife and if only for brunches or mid-afternoon teas... Meantime, going out to Tenerife restaurants remain culinary as well as social temptations, at night, you know. If only I had just that little bit more money to spoil myself with brand names like Meika sausages and delicious frozen food bought from Spar, at least. Why? The Spar shop in La Paz is a bit out of the way for me and the one in central Puerto de la Cruz has less of a food selection. Hey, if I discover more new stuff at Spar, I will surely declare it a best buy shop.
Supermercado 2000 Spar has indeed an advertisement board for the public by its entrance. People advertise for rental and sales of property and cars, for buying and selling 2nd hand goods, for wellness and beauty treatments, for language tuition, singing lessons, speech and drama and acting classes and baby sitting. You name it... I don't find it practical to have to go there to stick up a note. Also, I heard some naughty folks sometimes remove notes of others. Internet is so much more practical for advertising. The photo above only gives you some idea on how big this shop is. I estimate, it might be about 30 meters wide by 40 meters deep. This would give it about 1200 square meters. Including offices it should be bigger than that.You can't see the huge fresh dairy and meat counter in the back, by the way.
Back to Spar La Paz groceries: Real whole wheat oats:Recently, I spotted genuine whole wheat oats at Supermercado2000 packaged with the same grocery design and packaging they had 60 years ago.To stick to an ancient brand design like that is absolutely amazing while it's definitely interesting to buy oats like that, even, for double the price of soft and semi whole wheat oats... You need genuine oats like that to make a real Swiss Muesli. I used to buy tinned herrings in very real super fresh tasting cream sauce which I couldn't make for its price nor goodness. I also buy cheap food at SM 2000 like dried split peas and large size lentils for making soup at rare occasions. Special German wines and liquorsIf you want special German liquors and wines you sure will find almost all of them at this Spar supermarket in La Paz. If you need Kirsch Schnapps to make a genuine Black Forest cake, you get it there. History Supermercado 2000The shop Supermercado 2000 Spar was opened in the northern modern suburb La Paz of Puerto de la Cruz because, many wealthy foreigners started to buy their own holiday home there. This started towards the end of the 20th century. Why? La Paz is cooler and quieter than the old quarters of Puerto de la Cruz. Also, Taoro Park the venerable, green suburb of the oldest resort of Tenerife became too crowded. An astro physics event set the final ball rolling for La Paz and placed it firmly onto the business and real estate investment map.
How walk down to the hub Puerto Cruz from Supermercado 2000?It's easy to get back to Puerto Cruz hub turning to the right off Plaza Laurel into pedestrian passage C/Leopoldo Cologán Zulueta. It's the start of a beautiful pedestrian passage which comes out by the mall for Tenerife convenience shopping Piramides Martianez Centro Comercial. Just remember to turn right when reaching a small bar with chairs outside. You spot it after the first section of the subtropical passage An open parking ground is in front of the shop Supermercado 2000 Spar which also has a stand for book exchange and new books.. Bistros, restaurants, bars and little shops as well as alls sorts of business providers are in the vicinity of SM2000 Spar. Many are also at nearby Canary Center along the main road which leads to Botanic Gardens called Jardín Botánico in Spanish. That's the road to the TF5 freeway. From TF5 you take the exit 32 'Puerto de la Cruz por el Botánico'(hotel) to reach Spar Supermarket 2000 by passing La Cupola Commercial Center on your left. Many newer hotels as well as German and English clubs, such as a British Tennis club, are in the neighborhood of Supermercado 2000.
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