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The hotel's own tables come first. The Maristel Bistro, under the chef José Luis Adán, cooks Mallorcan produce over the grill, with a five-course tasting menu and a card of tapas, rice and fish, and serves dinner from 19:00; half-board guests order from the same card, with a 5 euro supplement on a few dishes. The Pool Bar pours cocktails and serves light snacks, the Sunset Cocktails Terrace is for a drink at the end of the day, and the Cafetería Estellencs, the hotel's café, does coffee, focaccias and home-made cakes. Beyond that, Estellencs has four places within six minutes on foot, three of them with a weekly closing day. For the cliff-top café at Es Grau and the tables of Banyalbufar you will want a car or a taxi: they are 5 and 10 minutes away.

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  • Vall-Hermós

    1 min walk

    Daytime café with a valley terrace · €

    A few doors along the main street, the village café has a terrace that looks out over the valley. The order is a pa amb oli, the Mallorcan bread rubbed with tomato and olive oil, under the house's Estellencs (camaiot, cheese, serrano ham and chorizo) or the hot Galatzó (botifarró, sobrassada, little chorizos and pork loin), or scrambled eggs with sobrassada. Bocadillos and pizzas fill the rest of the card. It opens 10:00 to 18:00, with hot food from 12:00 to 16:30, and closes on Wednesday.

    Walk inCarrer d'Eusebi Pascual 6, Estellencs

  • Montimar

    2 min walk

    The restaurant on the village square · €€

    The restaurant on the little square by the town hall, with a terrace for lunch and dinner, run by Jamil Yassine. The cooking is Mallorcan and Mediterranean: order the boned leg of lamb, slow-roasted under a herb crust, at 28 euros, the rabbit cannelloni with tarragon and orange under aged Merino cheese, or the corvina with romesco and tumbet, and there is a Moorish chicken tagine for a change. It opens Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 to 16:00 and 19:00 to 23:00, last orders at 22:00, and closes on Monday. The winter break runs from 22 October 2026 to 2 March 2027. Book online.

    Reserve aheadPlaça de la Constitució 7, Estellencs

  • Sa Tanca

    3 min walk

    Village bar and kitchen · €€

    A village bar on Carrer Vaquet with a card that is Mallorcan and Mediterranean in equal parts: fried squid and anchovies, grilled tuna and sea bream, callos, rabbit, and tumbet, the island's bake of layered vegetables, with the house aioli on the side and almond cake to finish. It opens 10:00 to 16:00 and 18:30 to 22:00, with the kitchen serving from 13:00 to 15:30 and 19:00 to 21:00, and closes on Tuesday. Go early in the evening, because the kitchen stops at 21:00.

    Walk inCarrer Vaquet 1, Estellencs

  • Giardini

    6 min walk

    Italian with a terrace over the village · €€

    An Italian kitchen at the Banyalbufar end of the village, along the coast road, with a terrace that looks over the roofs and down the valley towards the sea. The cooking is simple and made in the house: spaghetti, carbonara and pizza, then panna cotta and the other home-made desserts. It is the one table in Estellencs beyond the hotel's own open every day, from noon to 22:00, which makes it the answer on the nights the others are shut, and no booking is needed. Come in time for the end of the day on the terrace.

    Walk inMa-10, km 94, Estellencs

  • Es Grau

    5 min by car

    Self-service café at a cliff-top viewpoint · €

    A café on the coast road south of the village, beside the Ricardo Roca viewpoint, with a big panoramic terrace on the cliffs above the open sea. It is self-service and takes no bookings by day: bocadillos, sandwiches and Mallorcan sweet and savoury specialities, with coffee or a glass of wine. It opens 10:00 to 17:00, from 10:30 to 17:30 at the weekend, and from June to September it stays open for the sunset, when a front-row table is worth booking. Stop on the drive to Andratx rather than driving out for dinner.

    Walk inMa-10, km 98, Andratx

  • Son Tomàs

    10 min by car

    Rice and fish in Banyalbufar, since 1983 · €€

    A family restaurant in Banyalbufar, run by the same family since 1983, with a terrace that looks out to sea. Order the rice, black rice with cuttlefish or a paella, or the roast suckling pig, and the orange and almond cake to finish. The kitchen serves lunch from 13:00 to 15:30, Wednesday to Monday, and dinner from 19:30 to 21:30, Wednesday to Sunday; it closes on Tuesday and on Monday evening. Book for a table on the terrace.

    Reserve aheadCarrer Baronia 17, Banyalbufar

  • Es Trast

    10 min by car

    Tapas bar with a courtyard · €€

    A small tapas bar on Banyalbufar's main street, with tables in an inner courtyard. The plates to order are the croquetas, the boquerones, the salads and the meat finished on a hot stone, with the house cheesecake to follow. It opens 13:00 to 16:00 and from 19:00 to 23:00, later on some nights, and closes on Wednesday. Book for dinner, above all at the weekend.

    Reserve aheadCarrer del Comte de Sallent 10, Banyalbufar

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Breakfast

Breakfast is a buffet in the Maristel Bistro, served from 7:30 to 11:00, and out on the terrace when the weather allows: artisan breads, freshly baked pastries, cheeses, cold cuts, fresh fruit and local produce, with a vegan corner and lactose-free milk. It is in some rates and not in others, so check yours; on a room-only rate it costs about 15 euros a head. The nearest alternative is a few doors away at Vall-Hermós, from 10:00 and closed on Wednesday, for scrambled eggs with sobrassada or a tortilla, and the hotel's own Cafetería Estellencs does coffee, focaccias and home-made cakes from 8:00, Wednesday to Saturday, and from 9:00 on Sunday.

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The hotel's own tables come first. The Maristel Bistro, under the chef José Luis Adán, cooks Mallorcan produce over the grill, with a five-course tasting menu and a card of tapas, rice and fish, and serves dinner from 19:00; half-board guests order from the same card, with a 5 euro supplement on a few dishes. The Pool Bar pours cocktails and serves light snacks, the Sunset Cocktails Terrace is for a drink at the end of the day, and the Cafetería Estellencs, the hotel's café, does coffee, focaccias and home-made cakes. Beyond that, Estellencs has four places within six minutes on foot, three of them with a weekly closing day. For the cliff-top café at Es Grau and the tables of Banyalbufar you will want a car or a taxi: they are 5 and 10 minutes away. Vall-Hermós, 1 min walk. Montimar, 2 min walk. Sa Tanca, 3 min walk.

Our verdict

The Maristel is the affordable way onto Mallorca's wild west coast: an adults-only village hotel whose pool and better rooms look down the valley to the sea, with sea-view rooms from about 160 euros. Pay the step up to Dreaming Sea and check what your rate includes.

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Last checked: October 2026

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