Village restaurant on the main street · €€
The village restaurant of Es Capdellà, with a terrace on Carrer Major and bike racks opposite for the cyclists who fill it at lunchtime. The cooking is Mallorcan and Mediterranean, generous and fairly priced: grilled prawns and squid, paella, lamb and entrecôte. Open from 9:00 every day but Wednesday, until midnight on Monday and Tuesday, with a break from 16:00 to 19:00 on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Book for weekend lunch. It is the nearest dinner off the estate on a Sunday or Monday, when Sa Clastra is closed.
Reserve aheadCarrer Major 7, Es Capdellà
Bar Sa Societat
9 min by carVillage café for breakfast and pa amb oli · €€
The village café at number 2 Carrer Major in Calvià, along the street from Ca'n Torrat, and the stop for a breakfast that is not the hotel's: coffee, toast and croissants from 8:00. Later it turns to the island's bar food, pa amb oli and llonguets, the Mallorcan bread roll, filled with sobrasada, goat's cheese and honey, cold cuts or marinated fish. There is a terrace on the street and a pub feel inside, and it rarely costs more than 20 euros a head. Open 8:00 to 23:00, closed on Wednesday.
Walk inCarrer Major 2, Calvià
Mesón Ca'n Torrat
9 min by carFamily grill house, the village classic · €€€
A family-run mesón in the middle of Calvià village, hung with old pictures and keepsakes, where the meat comes off the fire: shoulder of lamb, lamb chops, entrecôte and pork, in generous portions. The kitchen also cooks the Mallorcan dishes the coast has dropped: frit mallorquí, pilotes, the island's meatballs, and lomo amb col, pork loin braised in cabbage leaves. Bread arrives with aioli and olives. Dinner only, 19:30 to 23:30, closed on Tuesday. Book, especially at weekends, and ask for the small terrace on the street.
Reserve aheadCarrer Major 29, Calvià
Bar Parroquial Galilea
11 min by carParish bar on a hill-village square · €
The parish bar on the church square of Galilea, the hill village at the top of the road the hotel stands on, with a terrace and a view. It is a bar, not a restaurant: a beer, a pintxo of tortilla, croquetes or a sandwich, for well under 20 euros a head, after a walk or on the way back from the mountains. Open 10:00 to 16:00 and 18:30 to 23:00, Tuesday daytime only, closed on Monday. The road up is narrow, winding and shared with cyclists.
Walk inPlaça Papa Pius XII 1, Galilea
Pastelería Campomar
15 min by carEnsaïmada bakery and café · €
An artisan bakery and café on the eastern edge of Peguera, with everything made on the premises from Mallorcan recipes: ensaïmadas, the spiral of lard-enriched dough dusted with sugar; cocarrois, the folded vegetable pasties; coca de trempó, flatbread topped with peppers, tomato and onion; robiols and almond gató. Sit on the small terrace with a cortado on the way to the beach, or order a whole ensaïmada at least a day ahead to take home. Open 8:30 to 14:00, to 13:30 on Sunday, closed on Monday.
Walk inCarrer d'Orient 1, Peguera
Rice and seafood over the bay · €€€
On the road up to Cala Fornells above Peguera since 1974, with a terrace that looks across the bay of Peguera to the Malgrats islands. Come for the rice and the sea: fish and seafood paella, black rice with red prawns and aioli, lobster caldereta from the tank, and the fish of the day from the board, grilled over coals. Paellas and calderetas are for two or more. Open from March to October, from 13:00, closed on Tuesday. Book a terrace table for the end of the afternoon.
Reserve aheadCarretera de Cala Fornells 37, Peguera
Marina classic for rice and fish, since 1987 · €€€
On the marina at Puerto Portals since 1987, with the yachts in front of the terrace. The kitchen does rice and fish: black rice, rice with prawns, fideuà with hake and prawns and two paellas, for two or more and 30 minutes in the making, plus raw plates such as a corvina ceviche, and steaks. Order the house thin apple tart with vanilla ice cream when you sit down, because it takes 30 minutes too. Open every day, 9:00 to midnight, with breakfast until 12:00 and the kitchen from 13:00 to 23:00. Book a terrace table.
Reserve aheadPuerto Portals, Portals Nous
Breakfast is included in every room rate and served at Olivera from 8:00 to 10:30, indoors or out on its terrace when the weather allows, with bread and pastries from the hotel's own bakery, made each morning with organic flour. It can be brought to the room, with a supplement on some rates. Off the estate, the nearest coffee is at Bar Nou in Es Capdellà from 9:00, closed on Wednesday. For a breakfast worth the drive, Bar Sa Societat in Calvià opens at 8:00, closed on Wednesday, and Pastelería Campomar in Peguera has ensaïmadas from 8:30, closed on Monday.
