Mallorcan tasting menu, one MICHELIN star · €€€€
Santi Taura cooks the island's own recipes, the everyday dishes of Mallorcan kitchens brought up to date, on a single tasting menu, Origens: 11 courses at 120 euros, with extra courses such as snails stuffed in the Mallorcan way and a pairing of Balearic wines at 80. It holds one MICHELIN star and seats 30, ten of them at the kitchen counter, which is served only at 2.15pm and 9pm. Dinner from Wednesday to Saturday, and from Tuesday in summer, with lunch on Saturday, and on Friday too in autumn and winter; closed on Sunday and Monday, and no one under 16.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outHotel El Llorenç Parc de la Mar, Plaça de Llorenç Villalonga 4
Café and terrace, with rice at lunch · €€
A café with a terrace on a small old-town square, run by Esment, the Mallorcan foundation that has worked with people with intellectual disabilities since 1962. Come for coffee in the morning or for lunch: the 2026 menu runs from croquettes and a coca with peppers and crisp pork belly to rice for two or more, black with cuttlefish and aioli at 18 euros a head or a fish and red prawn rice at 23. Open every day from 8.30am, 9am at weekends, until 5.30pm or 6pm; closed from 1 to 20 August.
Walk inPlaça del Pes de la Palla 3
Bakery for ensaïmadas and island pastries · €
A neighbourhood bakery on the way up to Sant Francesc that sells what Mallorca bakes: ensaïmadas, panades, coca de trampó and robiols, with sandwiches, coffee, oat milk included, and a brown country loaf the regulars come in for. Take an ensaïmada and a coffee on the way to the cathedral, or buy a panada for a day out. Open from 7.30am to 6.30pm on weekdays and from 8am to 1.30pm on Saturday; closed on Sunday.
Walk inCarrer de Ramon Llull 6
Tapas bar on a quiet square · €€
A tapas bar with its tables out under the trees of Plaça de Llorenç Bisbal, a small square away from the tourist streets, cooking Mallorcan dishes with a few liberties. Order tumbet, the island's layered dish of fried vegetables and tomato, the croquettes and the lamb, and take half portions to work through the list; there is a set lunch, and vegetarian dishes are always on. Lunch from noon to 4pm from Tuesday to Friday and dinner from 7pm to 11pm from Monday to Friday; closed at the weekend.
Walk inPlaça de Llorenç Bisbal 3A
La Vinya de Santa Clara
8 min walkWine bar for Mallorcan wines · €€
A small wine bar on a quiet lane by the Santa Clara convent, built around the island's own producers, with an owner who will steer you towards a Mallorcan wine you have not met. The food is there to go with it: boards of jamón, cheese and charcuterie, and no more. Go before dinner, or instead of it. Open from early evening until 11pm or later on most nights; closed on Sunday.
Walk inCarrer de Santa Clara 8
Mallorcan cooking in a garden patio · €€€
In the old stables of a mansion on Plaça de Sant Francesc, with tables in a planted patio, and listed in the MICHELIN Guide. Carles Forteza and Àlvar Albaladejo cook from island produce: trampó with smoked sardine, coca with honey-roasted aubergine and grilled eel, black-pork sobrassada with Mahón cheese, and a rice of the day cooked in the tin. The tasting menu, L'Entorn, is 89 euros. Dinner from 7pm to 10.30pm from Thursday to Monday, and a rice lunch on Sunday at 34 euros a head; closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Reserve aheadHotel Sant Francesc, Plaça de Sant Francesc 5
Bodega San Antonio
10 min walkOld-style bodega for octopus · €€
A bodega of the kind Palma has fewer of every year, unpretentious and full of regulars. Octopus is the house dish, Galician style or grilled with scallops and carrots, and the squid or octopus sandwich is what the regulars order; a glass of wine comes with slices of baguette and olives. There is a weekday set menu of two courses and a dessert. Open from 7am to late afternoon, Monday to Friday, so it is breakfast or lunch, never dinner; closed at the weekend.
Walk inPlaça de Sant Antoni 10
Breakfast is served à la carte in Mura, the hotel's restaurant, from 7.30 to 10.30, and on sunny mornings a late breakfast goes up to the roof from 10.30 to 11.30, with the bay in front; book it in advance. Some rates include breakfast and some are room only, so check which you have booked. Outside, Punt Dolç sells ensaïmadas and coffee from 7.30am on weekdays, seven minutes away, and Café Es Pes de sa Palla opens its terrace at 8.30am, 9am at weekends, six minutes away. For the classic, Ca'n Joan de s'Aigo, in business since 1700, serves hot chocolate, ensaïmadas and almond ice cream on Carrer de Can Sanç, eleven minutes on foot, every day from 8am to 9pm.
