Where to eat at and around Can Cera

Within ten minutes on foot

• Ca'n Joan de s'Aigo

  4 min walk

  Chocolate house and ice cream, since 1700 · €

  Palma's old sweet house: the business dates from 1700, and its Can Sanç rooms, open since 1977, keep the fittings of the first shop, with marble tables and old lamps. Order an ensaïmada, plain or filled with cabell d'àngel, with a cup of hot chocolate, or the almond ice cream that has been its signature for decades; a quarto, the island's light sponge, and a coca de patata are the other classics. It is open every day from 8 in the morning to 9 at night, so it doubles as the hotel's breakfast alternative.

  Walk inCarrer de Can Sanç 10

• Bar Espanya

  5 min walk

  Pinchos and vermouth at the bar · €

  The original Bar Espanya, five minutes from the hotel, where the food is pinchos: small plates and bites on bread at the bar, from 2.50 euros for a pincho from the bar. Order the cojonudo de sobrasada, a tumbet of fried aubergine, potato and pepper under tomato at 4.60, and croquettes of bullit, Mallorca's boiled meats, at 3.60 for two, with a vermouth or a local beer. It is the cheap, quick lunch or the first stop of an evening. Closed on Sunday.

  Walk inCarrer de Can Escursac 12

• Fornet de la Soca

  7 min walk

  Bakery of old Mallorcan recipes · €

  A bakery that calls its work local gastronomic archaeology: its recipes come from convents, manor houses and family notebooks, and it bakes them without industrial shortcuts. Since 2018 it has traded from the old Forn des Teatre on Plaça de Weyler, one of the city's modernista shopfronts. Buy an ensaïmada, plain or with cream, and one of the cakes or coques baked from its recovered recipes. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 9 to 8; closed on Sunday and Monday.

  Walk inPlaça de Weyler 9

• El Camino

  7 min walk

  Tapas at a marble counter · €€€

  Eddie Hart, who founded the Barrafina tapas bars in London with his brother, runs this one on the same lines: a long marble counter facing an open kitchen, stools rather than tables, and plates cooked in front of you from menus that change with the season. It opens Tuesday to Saturday, from 1 to 3.45 and from 6 to 10.45, in two sittings at lunch and three in the evening, and closes on Sunday and Monday. Book ahead, because every seat is at the counter.

  Reserve aheadCarrer de Can Brondo 4

• Bar Bosch

  8 min walk

  Café terrace at the top of the Born, since 1936 · €

  The café at the top of the Born, open since 1936, with marble tables inside and a terrace on the square. Order the llagosta, the house's llonguet, a soft Palma roll rubbed with tomato, filled with sobrassada at 5.10 euros or Iberian ham at 8.60, with a coffee or a vermouth, and watch the square. It runs from 9 in the morning to midnight every day, with breakfasts, tapas such as tumbet with a fried egg, and its own pastries. One bill per table.

  Walk inPlaça del Rei Joan Carles I 6

• La Bodeguilla

  9 min walk

  Rice, grilled fish and a long wine list · €€€

  A wine shop and bar at the front and dining rooms behind, with more than 300 wines, listed in the MICHELIN Guide for updated traditional cooking. Come for the rice: the arròs del senyoret with red prawn, scallop and squid is 34 euros, and the creamy lobster rice, for two, is 42 a head. The roast porcella of Mallorcan black pig is the other order. It serves from 1 to 11 every day without a break, which makes it the answer to a Sunday or Monday night.

  Reserve aheadCarrer de Sant Jaume 3

• Celler Pagès

  9 min walk

  Mallorcan home cooking, since 1956 · €€

  Three generations of one family have cooked Mallorcan food here since 1956, on a lane west of the Born. This is where to eat the island's own dishes: sopes mallorquines, tumbet, frit mallorquí, stuffed aubergines and cuttlefish with sobrassada, with a menu of the day at lunch. Lunch is served Monday to Saturday and dinner only Wednesday to Saturday; it closes on Sunday, and for a short holiday in October (1 to 12 October in 2026). Book by phone.

  Reserve aheadCarrer de Felip Bauzà 2

• DINS Santi Taura

  9 min walk

  MICHELIN-starred Mallorcan tasting menu · €€€€

  One MICHELIN star, on the ground floor of the El Llorenç hotel near the cathedral, for Santi Taura's reworking of Mallorcan recipes. There is one menu, Origens, of 11 courses at 120 euros, with a pairing of five Balearic wines at 80 and extras such as snails stuffed in the Mallorcan way. Dinner is Tuesday to Saturday and lunch Saturday only. There is no vegan option, under-16s are not admitted, and cancelling with less than 48 hours' notice costs 120 euros a head. Book well ahead, and ask for the chef's counter if you want to watch.

  Book well ahead: tables go weeks outPlaça de Llorenç Villalonga 4

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