The café solo is pure espresso — small, black, intense, served in a tiny cup. The cortado is espresso cut with a cloud of milk — the most common order, the one locals get at the counter in the morning. The pulguita (literally "the little flea") is a micro-cortado: even less milk, even more coffee, in a liqueur glass. It's the coffee of old village men at 7am — strong, quick, no fuss. At the other end of the spectrum, café con leche is an espresso drowned in hot milk — that's what tourists order when they don't know what to get. The manchado ("stained") is the opposite: lots of milk, a stain of coffee. It's the snack of children and people who don't like coffee but still want to participate.
The leche-leche is the sweet drink of the Canaries: an espresso served in a glass, with a layer of sweetened condensed milk at the bottom and hot milk on top. No alcohol, no lemon, no cinnamon — just the sweetness of condensed milk that caramelizes the coffee. It's the compromise between coffee and dessert. Canarians drink it at any time — breakfast, after lunch, snack time, late evening. If the barraquito is Canarian coffee's Sunday suit, the leche-leche is its everyday outfit.