Spain — Balearic Islands

Mallorca
at the table

An island that stopped trading on sunsets and started collecting Michelin stars. From Voro's two-starred theatre in Canyamel to clifftop Mallorcan tradition at Béns d'Avall, this is Mediterranean dining at its most confident.

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12 Michelin Stars
7 Occasions Covered

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Voro restaurant Mallorca
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Impress Clients

Canyamel — Mallorca

Voro

Contemporary Mediterranean €€€€

The Mediterranean's most precise kitchen — two Michelin stars earned through sheer audacity and zero compromise.

DINS Santi Taura Palma Mallorca
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First Date

Palma — Mallorca

DINS Santi Taura

Traditional Mallorcan €€€€

Mallorca's culinary memory reconstructed into 11 courses — every dish a postcard from somewhere on the island you've never been.

Marc Fosh restaurant Palma
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Close a Deal

Palma — Mallorca

Marc Fosh

Mediterranean Contemporary €€€€

The British chef who conquered Spain's most demanding island — clean flavours and architectural plating inside a 17th-century cloister.

Zaranda restaurant Palma
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Impress Clients

Palma — Mallorca

Zaranda

Contemporary Spanish €€€€

Fernando Arellano's Palma flagship: tasting menus named after the elements, served where medieval walls meet haute cuisine ambition.

Andreu Genestra restaurant Mallorca
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Proposal

Llucmajor — Mallorca

Andreu Genestra

Sustainable Mediterranean €€€€

Farm-to-table is a cliché everywhere except here — where the farm is a 14th-century estate and the table earns a Michelin Green Star.

Béns d'Avall Sóller Mallorca
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Proposal

Sóller — Mallorca

Béns d'Avall

Balearic Mediterranean €€€€

Fifty years of Mallorcan cooking on a clifftop terrace where the Mediterranean arrives at your table still tasting of sea air.

Es Fum restaurant Mallorca
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Birthday

Son Servera — Mallorca

Es Fum

Contemporary Mediterranean €€€€

Miguel Navarro's smoke-kissed tasting menus in the hills above Son Servera — drama on every plate, fire in the kitchen.

Maca de Castro Alcudia Mallorca
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First Date

Alcudia — Mallorca

Maca de Castro

Local Mallorcan €€€€

The north's finest address — chef Maca de Castro cooking the island's produce with an intimacy that feels like a private family meal.

Fusión 19 Playa de Muro Mallorca
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Birthday

Playa de Muro — Mallorca

Fusión 19

Contemporary European €€€€

Aleix Serra and Marc Marsol reimagine the Balearic larder through a lens of European technique — two chefs, one unmistakable vision.

Sa Clastra Mallorca
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Close a Deal

Santa Eugènia — Mallorca

Sa Clastra

Creative Mediterranean €€€€

Castell Son Claret's jewel: Jordi Canto's kitchen inside a restored stone fortress, where the menu feels as ancient and audacious as the walls.

Terrae Puerto Pollensa Mallorca
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Solo Dining

Puerto Pollensa — Mallorca

Terrae

Sustainable Fine Dining €€€

David Rivas earned the island's newest Green Star for making sustainability taste extraordinary — every ingredient traceable, every plate unforgettable.

Kraken Palma Mallorca
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Team Dinner

Palma — Mallorca

Kraken

Seafood €€€

The Mercat de l'Olivar's finest tenant: seafood pulled from the fish stalls downstairs and cooked with a precision that makes lunch feel like theatre.

KATAGI Blau Palma Mallorca
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Solo Dining

Palma — Mallorca

KATAGI Blau

Japanese Omakase / Teppanyaki €€€€

Fifteen courses of omakase on a Playa de Palma rooftop — Japanese precision with Mediterranean soul, in the last place you'd expect it.

De Tokio a Lima Valldemossa Mallorca
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First Date

Valldemossa — Mallorca

De Tokio a Lima

Nikkei Fusion €€€

Valldemossa's most unexpected table: Japanese-Peruvian Nikkei cuisine hidden in the village Chopin made famous — bold, surprising, completely original.

Ca na Toneta Caimari Mallorca
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Team Dinner

Caimari — Mallorca

Ca na Toneta

Traditional Mallorcan €€€

Sisters María and Teresa Solivellas have made the village of Caimari a pilgrimage destination — their Green Star kitchen is the island's beating culinary heart.

Vandal Palma Mallorca
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Birthday

Palma — Mallorca

Vandal

Creative Contemporary €€€

Palma's most irreverent table — inventive cocktails that challenge the menu, and a kitchen that refuses to be categorised.

Es Canyís Port d'Andratx Mallorca
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Proposal

Port d'Andratx — Mallorca

Es Canyís

Seafood Mediterranean €€€

A waterfront terrace above Andratx harbour where the fresh catch meets a sea view that requires no filters and no enhancements.

Adrián Quetglas Palma Mallorca
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Close a Deal

Palma — Mallorca

Adrián Quetglas

Contemporary Spanish €€€

The island's native son returned from Moscow with enough ambition to reshape Palma's dining landscape — and nearly pulled it off completely.

Sadrassana Palma Mallorca
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Team Dinner

Palma — Mallorca

Sadrassana

Mediterranean Tapas €€

Palma's most sociable table — a sharing menu that covers the whole island in small plates and a wine list that takes the same wide view.

Aromata Palma Mallorca
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Birthday

Palma — Mallorca

Aromata

Modern Spanish €€€

A Palma stalwart that earns its place year after year by knowing exactly what it is: confident, generous, and always in season.

Best for First Date in Mallorca

Mallorca's most intimate tables are tucked inside medieval hotels and clifftop terraces where the conversation happens naturally. DINS Santi Taura in Palma sets the standard — chef Santi Taura moving between tables before service, the 11-course Origens menu giving you two hours of unhurried shared discovery. Maca de Castro in Alcudia offers the kind of personalised hospitality that makes a first meeting feel like a reunion. For something with an edge, De Tokio a Lima in Valldemossa turns the surprise of Nikkei cuisine into the best conversation starter on the island. See all First Date restaurants.

Best for Business Dinner in Mallorca

When the deal needs a setting that signals you understand quality, Mallorca delivers. Marc Fosh in Palma is the classic play — the 17th-century cloister of Hotel Convent de la Missió provides a backdrop of assured elegance that lets the conversation do the work. Zaranda at Hotel Es Príncep adds theatrical tasting menus to old Palma stone walls, projecting a confidence that impresses without being ostentatious. For a venue that signals genuine insider knowledge, Sa Clastra in the Tramuntana foothills is the table that separates those who really know Mallorca from those who merely holiday here. See all Close a Deal restaurants.

Top 10 in Mallorca

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Contemporary Mediterranean · Canyamel · €€€€ · Two Michelin Stars
Álvaro Salazar's two-Michelin-starred kitchen at Cap Vermell Grand Hotel is the most demanding table in the Balearic Islands. The 21-course Devoro menu structures each dish around the arc of a Mediterranean day — from the pale stillness of dawn through to the fire of sunset. This is not a meal you eat; it is one you inhabit.
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Traditional Mallorcan · Palma · €€€€ · One Michelin Star
The most personal restaurant in Palma. Chef Santi Taura grew up on Mallorcan food and has spent a career translating that inheritance into haute cuisine — his Origens menu reads like an autobiography written in pastry, bread, and slow-braised pork. The price-to-quality ratio is among the finest of any starred restaurant in Spain.
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Mediterranean Contemporary · Palma · €€€€ · One Michelin Star
Marc Fosh became the first British chef to earn a Michelin star in Spain — and has held it for over a decade in Palma's most beautiful hotel courtyard. His food is a clean, bright interpretation of Mediterranean ingredients: clarity of flavour over complexity of technique, executed inside a 17th-century stone cloister that never lets you forget where you are.
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Contemporary Spanish · Palma · €€€€ · One Michelin Star
Fernando Arellano relocated from his two-starred Zaranda in the Tramuntana to Hotel Es Príncep in Palma's old quarter, rebuilt his reputation, and earned another star. His tasting menus — Patrones, A flor de piel, Plena flor — progress from restraint to abandon, using Mallorca's ingredients as the base for some of the most technically ambitious food on the island.
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Sustainable Mediterranean · Llucmajor · €€€€ · One Michelin Star + Green Star
On the Sa Torre estate near Llucmajor — a medieval farmhouse surrounded by working gardens and solar panels — Andreu Genestra cooks the island's most honest food. His Mediterranean Verde menu, built entirely from the estate's gardens, is the most compelling argument for zero-mile dining in Spain.
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Balearic Mediterranean · Sóller · €€€€ · One Michelin Star + Green Star
The Vicens family has been cooking on this cliff above the Sóller coast since 1971. Benet and Jaume Vicens carry the family flag with food that combines 50 years of Balearic tradition with a precision that earned them a Michelin star in 2024. The terrace view over the Mediterranean is, quite simply, the finest restaurant setting on the island.
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Contemporary Mediterranean · Son Servera · €€€€ · One Michelin Star
Miguel Navarro works with fire and smoke in a way that feels ancestral and modern simultaneously. His kitchen in the hills above Son Servera produces food that is visceral, flavour-first, and impossible to forget. Es Fum is the east of the island's finest table by a distance.
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Local Mallorcan · Alcudia · €€€€ · One Michelin Star
Chef Maca de Castro is Mallorca's most visible female culinary voice, and her restaurant in Alcudia is among the island's most comforting and challenging in equal measure. The menu draws from the north — the salt flats of S'Albufera, the olive groves above Pollensa — and assembles it with a delicacy that belies how confident the flavours are.
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Japanese Omakase · Palma · €€€€
An omakase counter on a Playa de Palma rooftop sounds implausible until you sit down. Chef José Miguel García Pellegrino's 15-course journey through Japanese precision and Mediterranean ingredient sourcing is the most surprising meal on the island — and one of its most technically accomplished.
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Creative Mediterranean · Santa Eugènia · €€€€ · One Michelin Star
Jordi Canto's kitchen at Castell Son Claret occupies the dining room of a restored stone monastery in the Tramuntana foothills. The setting — stone arches, candlelight, a courtyard silence — would be enough on its own. The food makes it unmissable.

The Mallorca Dining Guide

Mallorca's relationship with food has been quietly transforming for a decade. The island long understood as a destination for package holidays and beach buffets now holds 12 Michelin stars across 11 kitchens — more than many of Europe's celebrated food cities. The shift is not accidental. A generation of island-born chefs returned from kitchens in Barcelona, Madrid, and San Sebastián with international technique and a determination to cook the island they grew up on, not the one tourists expected.

Palma is the hub. The old city between the cathedral and the Passeig des Born holds most of the island's finest restaurants within a 20-minute walk of each other. DINS Santi Taura and Marc Fosh operate within a few hundred metres of the same Gothic walls. Zaranda sits inside Hotel Es Príncep at the edge of the old town. The concentration creates something rare in resort destinations: a genuine local fine dining culture where chefs compete with each other, not with the beach.

Outside the capital, the island fragments into distinct dining geographies. The northwest — Sóller, Valldemossa, Deià — is Mallorca's most dramatic coastal scenery, and Béns d'Avall in Sóller takes full advantage with its clifftop terrace above the Mediterranean. The northeast is quieter and more agricultural: Maca de Castro in Alcudia and Fusión 19 in Playa de Muro draw on the salt flats, fishing ports, and market gardens of the island's less-visited quarter. The interior — the plain of Es Pla — is wine country and almond orchards: Ca na Toneta in Caimari and Andreu Genestra's estate in Llucmajor are pilgrimages for those who eat to understand a place.

The dominant cuisine is contemporary Mediterranean with Mallorcan roots — lamb, pork, sobrasada, ensaïmada, fresh fish from the island's ports, almonds, citrus, and olive oil from centuries-old trees. What the best kitchens do is take this vocabulary and find new grammar for it: Santi Taura's Origens menu reads the island's culinary memory as a living document, not a museum exhibit. The results are food that is recognisably Mallorcan and like nothing you've eaten before.

Seasonality governs everything. Many of Mallorca's finest restaurants close from November through March, returning when the produce — and the clientele — justify it. May, June, and September are the dining calendar's sweet spots: the heat has not yet peaked or has passed, the best chefs are in their kitchens, and reservations are obtainable with two to three weeks' notice. July and August require four to eight weeks for the island's top tables.

Reservations

Voro, Béns d'Avall, and Marc Fosh require advance booking year-round; in summer, expect six to eight weeks for prime tables. DINS Santi Taura has a small dining room and books quickly regardless of season. Most restaurants open evenings from 8pm — later than mainland Spain, in deference to the island's more relaxed rhythm. Lunch is taken seriously: Marc Fosh's lunch tasting menu begins at €65 and represents exceptional value.

Dress Code & Customs

Mallorca's finest restaurants expect smart casual to formal; no shorts or flip-flops at Voro, Zaranda, or Sa Clastra. The island's relationship with wine is improving rapidly: local Mallorcan appellations — Binissalem, Pla i Llevant — produce wines worth asking for, particularly the indigenous Manto Negro grape in reds and Prensal Blanc in whites. Tipping is not obligatory but 10–12% is appreciated at starred establishments. Service is typically unhurried; allow three hours for a full tasting menu.