As I stepped on the bathroom scales this morning, I was reminded of our holiday goal which was to only eat out every second night! Here’s how we achieved it... :-)
Sunday – dinner at
Cantonet. Still our favourite restaurant in Pollença. The food and the service are always perfect although we probably know the menu too well now in that we’ve chosen before get there. Went without a reservation and got a table easily in the back terrace area.
Monday – dinner at
R3spira. Our first visit here and we’d certainly go back. We went without a reservation, but it was busy, and we’d book the next time. The regular menu was an online QR code with specials on a bit of paper which confused us a bit to start with. Great food and excellent service.
Tuesday – BBQ at the villa with enormous kebabs from Toni at
Eu Serral Gourmet – I defy anyone to walk in there and not be amazed at the selection or to walk out without buying anything!
Wednesday – Dinner at
La Font del Gall. Didn’t book so had to eat inside which was no problem. Great food and service as always. Portions were really big for us, and we had three courses so suffered a bit overnight – self-inflicted though.
Thursday – ate at the villa in the evening although we did try
Can Mir 1945 for tapas mid-afternoon. Service was good and the food was generally okay although our bacalao rebozado was so dripping in oil we didn’t finish it.
Friday – back to
Cantonet for dinner. This table was booked. It was supposed to be our last night before going home but we’d extended for a second week so booked again for the following Friday. Great food again but our
romantic dinner for two was somewhat distracted by a rather large and noisy table beside us. This was to become a theme.
Saturday – Lunch at
Restaurant Marc Fosh in Palma. This was our second visit and although the first was two years ago, we were still welcomed back like regulars! The food was just amazing, and the service was great. We just think it’s a very relaxing way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Sunday – We booked a table at
Q11 for dinner. Maybe we had been spoiled by the previous day, but we just felt the service wasn’t up to scratch – it was like the serving staff didn’t really want to be there. That aside the food was excellent and portion size more to our liking.
Monday – BBQ at the villa in the evening but we tried
Bar Alhambra for tapas mid-afternoon. This was a first for us and having walked by it many times in the past I really don’t know why we haven’t tried it before. Both food and service were really good, and we’ll certainly be back again.
Tuesday – Another first for us –
La Placeta at
Hotel Sant Jordi. Whilst we enjoyed our visit, we felt the menu was quite restrictive. They did have a huge number of additional (fish) specials though. Our evening there was again somewhat spoiled by a large and very drunk, noisy table elsewhere, so we ended up not staying too long. I don’t think it’s one we would rush back to.
Wednesday – back to
La Font del Gall with a booked table outside. Another fantastic meal. The two waiters there always seem to be enjoying their work and that is infectious with the customers.
Thursday – in the evening we barbequed again but sampled the tapas at
Café Espanol /
Ca’n Moixet in the square. The food was good, but we had difficulty in getting service to start with. Once the food came we chilled and people watched the afternoon away.
Friday – A ‘forced’ trip to PP had us enjoy a small tapas lunch at
Meraki in the main square. We thought the food and the service were excellent and from our time there it seemed they had a bunch of regular customers who thought the same. In the evening it was back to
Cantonet for one last time.
Saturday – another long lunch in Palma this time at the Peruvian fusion restaurant
Sumaq. It was a much less formal atmosphere than Marc Fosh but some really fantastic and different food. I’d certainly go back although there are many other great restaurants in Palma.
Which reminds me – we’ve tried on more than one occasion to go to Club Tast in Palma but have yet to find it!
Aside from all the above meals we also had coffee / naranja / cerveza / rosado / coke / cakes in
Numero Ocho in the square;
Bar Pont Roma;
Sisters Cafe(just up from Eroski),
Café Calvari, and
One Touch (the closet café to our villa). Our favourite
was One Touch – great coffee; freshly squeezed orange juice and cakes but then the owner became very pushy at us trying to take his wine tasting session – which I’m sure would be very good – but we just wanted a quiet seat over a cup of coffee. We moved from there to Sisters which became our fav for the fortnight.
Still plenty of other restaurants to try but one that was on our list for this year but which we never got to was La Trencadora.
I’d also say we’ve never really found a good choice of café for coffee / cake / people watching in PP or Palma despite trying a few…
So who'd like to guess what the scales said?! :-)