Las Palmas has quietly become one of Europe's favourite cities for remote work, with year-round mild weather, a walkable downtown, an Atlantic beach inside the city, and a community of digital nomads big enough that you will run into the same faces in the same cafés within a week. If you have just landed and you are looking for somewhere to open your laptop that is not a coworking space, this guide is for you.
These are the cafés in Las Palmas where remote workers genuinely sit and get things done, with notes on what the wifi is like, where the plugs are, when each place is at its best, and a few unwritten rules so you stay welcome.
What makes a café actually good for working
Before the list, a quick filter. Across hundreds of remote-worker reviews, local Reddit threads, and a lot of personal trial and error, the cafés that work share most of these traits:
- Reliable wifi. Fast enough to handle a video call without buffering. Roughly 30+ Mbps down is a safe floor.
- Power outlets at or near tables. Trying to stretch a cable across a walkway never ends well.
- Tables you can actually use. A flat surface big enough for a laptop and a plate, with a chair (not a bench) you can sit on for two hours.
- Tolerance for laptop users. Some cafés discourage it openly. The good ones make space for you and trust you to behave.
- Decent coffee and a real food menu. You will be there long enough to eat something. The places that survive as work cafés are the ones where ordering more than one thing actually feels right.
- Hours that match your schedule. Some only open weekdays 9 to 4. Others stay open until midnight. Pick accordingly.
A quick note on neighbourhoods. Most laptop-friendly cafés in Las Palmas cluster around four areas: Las Canteras (the beachfront, busy with tourists and nomads), Triana / Centro (the central shopping streets), Vegueta (the old town, quieter, more atmospheric), and Guanarteme (residential, closer to the surf end of the beach). Choose by what kind of break you want when you stand up.
Cafés in Las Palmas worth opening your laptop in
Un Lugar Café
Address: Un Lugar Café, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The original. Un Lugar was the first café in Las Palmas to lean into the coworking-café format, and it is still one of the most reliable places to get work done. Fast wifi, plugs that actually reach the tables, and a coliving in the same building that means a steady rotation of remote workers passing through. The filtered coffee gets praised more than any other café in the city, and the menu of bocadillos, toast, pancakes, croissants, and sweets is built for the kind of slow morning that turns into a productive afternoon. One important caveat: it tends to close during the summer months, so check before you walk over in July or August.
Best for: A focused morning with great filtered coffee. Easy to spend a full day here.
Café Regina
Addresses: Multiple locations across the island, including Las Canteras, Mesa y López, Triana, and inside El Corte Inglés.
A local mini-chain that has become the default "I just need to sit somewhere reliable" choice for a lot of nomads. Several of the locations have proper tables, fast wifi, and stay open late, which makes Regina the answer when most of the smaller cafés have already closed. The Las Canteras branch is the showpiece: full ocean view from the terrace, perfect for a sunset video call. The menu is broader than most cafés (tapas, sandwiches, salads, burgers, mains, cakes), so you can stay for lunch and dinner without having to relocate.
Best for: Late afternoons and evenings when you need a café that is still open. Ocean view at the Las Canteras branch.
Talleres Palermo Coworking Kafé
Address: C. República Dominicana, 18, Las Palmas
The same converted carpentry workshop that hosts live music and DJ nights at night runs a daytime coworking café. The setup is closer to a real coworking than a regular café, with high-speed wifi and a "sit down to work" atmosphere rather than a "café where laptops are tolerated" one. You can simply walk in, order a coffee, and stay, no day pass needed. Open Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 15:30, no evenings or weekends. The space itself has industrial bones, plenty of natural light, and shares the building with a vintage furniture showroom and event space, so the vibe is relaxed and a little more design-y than the average café.
Best for: Days when you want the structure of a coworking without committing to a monthly membership.
Cool Beans
Address: Vegueta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
If you would rather work somewhere with cobblestones outside the door than sand, this is the Vegueta pick. Cool Beans is openly remote-worker-friendly: the seating, the plugs, and the rhythm of the room are all set up for laptop sessions. Coffee is solid, the breakfast menu is simple but well done, and the surrounding old town gives you somewhere lovely to walk during a break. Hours are 9:00 to 16:00 every day, Monday to Sunday, so it is more of a morning-to-afternoon café than an all-evening one.
Best for: Working from Vegueta. Strong choice if you want quiet over coastal energy.
LUWAK
Address: Calle Joaquín Costa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
LUWAK leans specialty coffee: proper beans, proper brewing, the kind of place that takes its espresso seriously. Indoor tables and a terrace, both with plugs and wifi, and a menu that goes well beyond pastries: healthy options, vegetarian and vegan plates, fresh lemonade.
Best for: Coffee snobs who also need to send emails. Good vegetarian and vegan options.
Starbucks (Las Canteras)
Address: Starbucks Las Canteras, Las Palmas
Worth including for one reason: it is the most predictable option in the city. The wifi works, the plugs are everywhere, the tables are designed for laptops, the hours are long, and the ocean is across the street. It is not the best coffee in Las Palmas, and most of the city's specialty cafés will roll their eyes at the recommendation, but for a long video call where you cannot afford a single dropped frame, the global chain knows what it is doing. Treat it as the reliable backup, not the daily.
Best for: Long video calls and "I cannot afford anything to go wrong today" days.
Santander Work Café
Address: Calle Mesa y López 21, Las Palmas
The most unusual entry on this list. Banco Santander runs a hybrid coworking café out of one of its branches on Mesa y López, and yes, you can use it whether or not you have an account with the bank. The collaborative workspace has 18 desks on a drop-in basis, free wifi, and a coffee bar in the room. No booking is needed for a desk, you just register at the branch when you arrive. There are also private meeting rooms for up to four people with video-conferencing and a projector, but those run on a separate booking system with weekly limits (2 hours per week for Santander customers, 1 hour per week for non-customers). Open Monday to Thursday 8:30 to 19:00 and Friday 8:30 to 16:00, closed at weekends and on holidays. The space also hosts occasional talks and workshops, so it is worth checking their programme.
Best for: A free, quiet desk in the middle of Mesa y López, especially for short focused sessions.
Café etiquette in Las Palmas
This part matters. A few cities in Europe have started banning laptops from cafés because remote workers were treating them like free offices. That has not happened in Las Palmas, and the easiest way to keep it that way is to behave like a customer:
- Order something every time you sit down. Order again if you stay. A single coffee for a four-hour session is the fastest way to make café owners regret hosting nomads. A coffee, a snack, and lunch over the course of a workday is the right rhythm.
- Read the room at peak times. Around 10:00, 13:30, and 17:00, cafés fill up with non-laptop customers. If a queue forms and you have a single coffee on a four-person table, move or pack up.
- Use headphones for calls, and step outside when you can. Loud video calls are the single biggest reason cafés start putting up "no laptops" signs.
- Tip if the service deserves it. Tipping in Spain is not obligatory, but for staff who let you camp for hours, leaving the change is a small kindness that matters.
- Have a Plan B. If the place is packed, accept it and move. There are always more cafés.
When a café is not enough
Cafés are great for one to four hours of work. For deeper sessions like back-to-back calls, a full workday with stable internet, or anything sensitive that you would not want strangers seeing on your screen, a real coworking is worth the money. Las Palmas has a strong scene: Beach House Coworking, Soppa de Azul, Coworking Palermo, and White Forest, among others. Most digital nomads in the city use a mix: a coworking for focused days and standing desks, cafés for lighter mornings and Friday afternoons.
Read our full guide to coworking spaces in Las Palmas for a breakdown of which one fits which kind of remote-work setup.
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