Well…
It’s official.
Greggs is coming to Tenerife.
Greggs Chooses Tenerife South for First International Store in Nearly 20 Years
The famous British bakery chain is opening a new branch at:
📍 Tenerife South Airport
✈️ International Departures Area
Later this month.
And judging by the reaction online already, some people seem more excited about this than their actual holidays.
Sausage Rolls Return Before the Flight Home
The new airport store will serve many of the usual Greggs favourites including:
🥐 Sausage rolls
🥧 Bakes
🥪 Sandwiches
🍩 Sweet treats
Basically the standard survival kit for British travellers.
Tenerife-Specific Menu Items Too
In fairness, they are at least trying to adapt slightly to the island.
The Tenerife branch will also include:
🥖 Spanish omelette breakfast rolls
🍊 Fresh orange juice prepared daily
So it’s not entirely sausage-roll diplomacy.
A Big Move for Greggs
This marks Greggs’ first international opening in almost two decades.
The company last operated outside the UK in Belgium back in 2008 before focusing entirely on domestic expansion.
Today, Greggs has:
🏪 More than 2,700 stores across the UK
And Tenerife South has now been chosen as the launch point for its overseas return.
Why Tenerife South Airport?
The airport handles around:
✈️ 13 million passengers annually
Many of them British tourists heading home after holidays in the Canary Islands.
Seating for Nearly 100 Customers
The new branch will also include:
🪑 Seating for 92 people
Meaning there’s now officially a place in Tenerife where you can eat a sausage roll while waiting for a Ryanair flight back to Birmingham.
What a world.
Worth Knowing
No official opening date has been confirmed yet…
But the shop is expected to open before the end of May.
And somewhere across Tenerife right now, a homesick Brit has just become very emotional reading this.