OUR TOP PICKS OF EATING & DRINKING IN IBIZA San Rafael CAN MUSSONET This local place with small garden is a good place for a ES FURNELL quiet dinner locally and has *TAKE AWAY OPTION good food and a playhouse for kids "Comida para Llegar" is basically home made Pere de Portugal Street 1, 07816 San Spanish food available to Rafael take away. T: +34 971 318 709 Think croquettes, huge Useful: MONDAY CLOSED & LUNCHTIME ONLY IN WINTER paellas, salads, tortilla, really tasty rotisserie CAN PILOT chickens, moussaka and lots of tarts and cakes. One of the island’s best traditional barbecue restaurants, where steaks, lamb chops and other Really great place to buy an meats are barbecued over an open fire. Try the easy lunch or dinner, to take butifarro home made sausage or the secreto home but get there before Iberico, or if you are hungry the ox t bone for two, 4pm or it will be closed! which you cook on your own table top charcoal grill. The vibe is very traditional and food simple. San Rafael de Sa Creu, Islas Baleares, Spain No sauces just chunky Ibicencan sea salt with grilled peppers and potatoes. Easy to find on the T: +34 971 19 89 75 corner of the road to our house in San Rafel. Useful: Opens 9am. Book ahead and request a garden table. Closes at 4pm and closed on Tuesdays San Rafel Tel. +34 971 198 293 Useful info: Open all year round. San Antonio & Forada - local The Skinny Kitchen LA GRANJA We all tend to be a bit snooty about San Antonio, due to the west end's reputation for A private members drunken partying but the marina is lovely. We club and hotel, but a like the food at the skinny kitchen and its lovely spot for an harbour side location makes it a great place to adult dinner. The hang out. Healthy protein bowls, as well as menu is a no-choice skinny burgers, curries, noddles and 70 euro menu with pancakes for brunch, and loads of gluten free option of chicken fish options. or meat or veggie so 20 passeig de la mar, sant antoni de portmany, ibiza no 'a la carte' option. Tel: +34 971 251 202 Very beautiful place Useful info: 10am - 8pm monday - sunday, as designed in collaboration with Design hotels. They also do yoga session and talks about farming the eco way. Check out the very cool bar here set around an old carob tree. I wouldn't take my kids here as its very serene, and they wouldn't eat all the food, but you certainly can. Carretera Forada a Sant Mateu KM 1 Tel. +34 615 406 588 Useful info: Monthly membership €95 euros per person CAN MIQUEL GUASCH NORTH One of my favourites! Set in an old school, with an LA PALOMA elegant, more grown up feel, with A café by day and restaurant by a large open kitchen, the food here night with an organic garden. is seasonal, but includes both fish There are swings and they serve and meat and always well cooked. an eclectic mixture of healthy food. They produce their own olive oil It's found in the small village of which you can buy for home and San Lorenzo. If you find the village try their cocas, a type of pizza and you will find La Paloma. Dinner is then have grilled meat which is candlelit in a romantic garden with what they are known for. Easy to SUSHI NAGAI seasonal local produce, mostly find as it is on the road from San grown here. Great for families. Lorenzo up to San Joan. You will Lovely sushi and fusion see an old building right on the Asian dishes in an open air Calle can pou 4, Sant Llorenzo de balafia T. +34 971 32 55 43 road. garden. Magical and Useful: cash only, cafe open until 4.30pm, book Kids are always happy here as romantic vibe with live guitar dinner they do a menu of eggs with ham music or a DJ. I probably or chips! wouldn’t take young kids here as everyone natters in Ctra vella Portinax, San Joan, KM 9.8 quite hushed tones, but T: +34 871 87 02 29 theres no rule against kids! Useful: closed on mondays but open all year You will see this restaurant from the road as you spot the Geisha graffiti on the road to San Lorenzo. T +34 971 80 73 08 San Joan road KM9.5 Useful: Closed every monday & only open for dinner time OUR FAVOURITES L'ESCOLLERA I've never had a bad meal here. It feels like a good mix of people, locals and tourists and since it's open all year people who live on the island tend to come. The atmosphere is fun for all ages. There's always something for everyone and the portions are enormous, so don't get greedy with too many starters. I've had beautiful wagyu carpaccio, fabulous rabbit paella and even the kids spag bol tasted amazing to me! The staff are very well trained, but it is heaving on weekends, so you need to email to book. They will persuade you to all order paella if they are busy. Be strong, this only makes it easier on their kitchen. If you take kids they can go on the beach when they get bored, usually between finishing their meal and ice cream arriving! Playa Es Cavallet, 07817 Sant Jordi de ses Salines T. +34 971 39 65 72 Useful: There's valet parking at the front, so don't worry if someone in a stripy top tries to take your car keys! It look over the ocean and there;s places in the sun and shade. IBIZA FOOD STUDIO: TALLER DE TAPAS A small hidden gem in the back streets of Ibiza's old town. It has the feeling of a secret supper club and the food is prepared with skill by an ex bulli chef. Wines are low intervention. Some of the best cooking on the Island in a slightly quirky hipster setting. A nice change from the pretentiousness of some of the eateries. Carrer Alt, 2, 07800 Eivissa, Illes Balears, Spain http://www.ibzfoodstudio.com/ +34 628 85 46 54 SANTA GETRUDIS BAR COSTAS This is a cheap and cheerful bar to go to in the quiet pretty village of Santa Getrudis. There's a church square here and lots of tapas bars to hang out at, a lovely boutique called es cusons, a good playground for little kids and a good gelateria and some organic shops. AUBERGINE Plaça de l'Esglèsia, s/n, 07819 Santa Gertrudis LA CHICKERIA de Fruitera Useful: In the Winter months there's a cosy fire The atmosphere here is great for here. Good grilled chicken to take families and the food is really away or eat with kids good with a big choice. It's not Carrer Venda de Can Llàtzer, 19, 07814 typically spanish, but very wholesome, they do great superfood salads and kids food. FINCA LA PLAZA There's a kids playground here and it is set in a garden so it Lovely food in a charming makes for a lovely day out. Sant garden in Santa Getrudis Miquel road Km 9.9 between Plaça de l'Esglèsia, s/n, 07819 Santa Gertrudis Santa Gertrudis and Sant Miguel de Fruitera [email protected] · Useful: In the Winter months there's a cosy fire T. +34 971 090 055 here. WEST PASSION Good for brunch or lunch. Lots of healthy options, including gluten free and vegan, as well as a big smoothie and juice menu. They do a mean avo on toast and the coffee is the best in ibiza. It is now a chain of five, the closest is in San Antonio harbour, but for a larger branch head to San Josep and perfect combined with a beach trip to the west beaches of Cala Moli, Cala Vadella, Cala Carbo - all lovely. SUNSET ASHRAM Calle Pere Escanellas Nº 44, Carretera de Sant Josep, 07830 Also in Sant anthony opposite Club Nautica on the marina This is the coolest place to listen to chilled DJS and watch the sunset go into the water. The restaurant is a circular shape and built on a cliff seems to project out over the ocean. The roof is open and it feels as though you are on the planet Tatouin! It's a bit more dressy than usual and we usually leave the kids at home. But it's open all day so you can feed them here earlier and the beach below will keep them entertained while you watch the sunset. You can book a large booth big enough for 10 people and make sure you arrive around 6.30 to soak up the atmosphere. Carretera Cala Conta, s/n, 07829 Sant Josep de sa Talaia +34 661 34 72 22 Useful: Book ahead as it's super popular A beach club is open all day usually 10-8pm. BEACH CLUBS OTHER PLACES TO EAT It has a restaurant and ON THE BEACH: an area where you can hire sunloungers. Or you can just come for Sa Caleta cocktails. This is more your doillies and waiters in shirts kind of place. EL CHIRRINGUITO Lovely fish and seafood and Fashionable beach club with a great the beach itself is dramatic with its red rocks. restaurant and loads of white sun loungers on the sand where you can eat, (Near airport) listen to music, drink cocktails and people Experimental watch.