Address: Paseo Mallorca, 20, 07012, Palma de Mallorca
Telephone: 00 34 971 781 119
I went here with my husband, stepson and his daughter on a Saturday evening in September. It was to have a belated celebration of my stepson's birthday.
I had booked the table a few weeks ahead as the restaurant gets very busy. The restaurant rang me 2 days beforehand to check the booking and also to check if the diners had any food allergies or other dietary requirements. As we had one person who had recently had teeth implants (and could not eat meat, only soft food) and another who was pregnant (who had to avoid uncooked seafood and certain cheeses), they adapted the menu for them.
There is only 1 menu which is a 7 course tasting menu (€50 per head), but the course that contained uncooked seafood was adapted for our pregnant diner and the meat course was replaced with fish for the diner who could not eat meat.
We were given a warm and friendly, but professional, welcome to the restaurant.
A menu was brought to our table quickly and drinks ordered and delivered shortly afterwards. I was going to order a Hendricks G&T but the owner of the restaurant suggested I might like to try another gin, Opihr, which has eastern spices in it. However, there was no pressure to try it if I didn't want to. I decided to give it a go and it was well made and had interesting botanicals which I thoroughly enjoyed. The pregnant diner stuck to water and the other 2 diners went with the drinks "pairing" menu which matched the wine with each course and consisted of 5 different wines at a price of €25. However, it was no problem to have an extra glass of any of the wines that were particularly enjoyed or replace a wine (for example, my husband doesn't not drink cava that was the first wine on the pairing menu) that was not wanted with an alternative.
Each course was exquisitely presented and tasted divine. The first was a seafood creation with tiger's milk ice cream, the second an egg yolk which had been dusted with gold and floated in a tasty savoury cream, the third was a rice, asparagus and foie gras, the fourth was corvina and the fifth was beef.
They were all delicious and it would be difficult to pick out a favourite. By this stage of the meal we were beginning to fill up, so the waiter asked if we would like a 5 or 10 minute break before finishing with our 2 dessert courses. We went with this suggestion to let the previous courses settle.
To finish we had the first dessert of black cherries with sponge cake and balsamic ice cream. This was not too sweet but tasty. However, none of us were taken with the sponge cake which looked more like pieces of brown bread and did not have the texture that I would recognise as sponge cake.
The second dessert was white chocolate mousse with beetroot and grapefruit which, again, was not too sweet but tasty. On top there were crispy leaves but they were a bit like the sponge cake and did not really work for us even though they looked pretty.
By the end of the meal, we were all pleasantly full and thoroughly enjoyed our dining experience in spite of the sponge cake and crispy leaves on the desserts.
Throughout the meal we were served by charming waiting staff who took time to explain each course and were completely unfazed when we strayed from the food or drinks menus.
The bill, including tips, came to €350 for the 4 of us. As this is a Michelin Star restaurant and we ate and drank exactly what we wanted, we felt this was a very fair price for a superb feast.
It would not be somewhere that I would go every week but I would definitely go back again. We were told that the menu changes monthly so most people would probably not go here more than once a month unless they particularly wanted to replicate their food on 2 occasions within a month.
For a special celebration it would definitely be on my list of places to go.
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