New boutique hotels in Palma

The "Summum Prime" in a palace from the 15th century, it has opened in December 2017. 18 rooms, restaurant, roof terrace with pool, Calle Concepsion 26. hotelsummum.com

On Easter opened the 5-star "Es Princep" on the East end of the old town wall, Carrer Bala Roja. Situated in an old city palace it will have 68 rooms, many with sea view to the bay of Palma. From the 800m2 big roof terrace with pool you have an amazing view over the sea or the roofs of Palma to the cathedral. The restaurant "Bala Roja" will have the kitchen of the star chef Andreu Genetra. www.esprincep.com

Directly on the town hall, Plaza Cort is the newly opened "Hotel Mamá" by the Cappuccino group. The new Cappuccino Grand Café bar & restaurant is located in the lobby of the hotel, an amazing Mallorcan patio and central terrace on Plaza Cort. The Tahini Japanese restaurant, a unique Japanese gastronomic offer that will delight the most exquisite gourmets. The hotel offers rooms & suites with direct view to the plaza, rooftop pool with views towards the old town and the Cathedral, Moroccan hammam spa, gym and private cinema. www.hotelmama.es

The hotel "Gloria de Sant Jaume" is also new, Carrer de Sant Jaume 18, with the feeling of an authentic Mallorcan manor house with roof terrace, jacuzzi, indoor pool with spa, sauna, restaurant. www.gloriasantjaume.com

The new "Icon Roseto Petit Palace" in Carrer de Can Campaner 6 (between La Rambla and Borne). It has a lovely gardened interior court yard, restaurant, roof terrace and pool. www.petitpalace.com

As one of the ambitious recycling projects in whole Spain are new laws from the Balearic government. From 2020 on will be forbidden: capsules for coffee (unless able to be recycled), cigarette lighters, razor blades, printer patrons or toners, the plastic sticks on ear cleaning sticks and lollies, humid cloths, plastic plates, plastic cutlery, plastic cups and plastic straws. The use of plastic bottles will be drastically reduced; Restaurants and bars should serve tab water for free. Plastic bags will be forbidden, so clients learn to bring own bags. The government's goal is that food, that still can be eaten, will not end up in the garbage. Shops and food stores are not allowed to throw away eatable food. Left overs from schools and clinics should be given to the poor. 

Snaps, Gin, Brandy & Co made in Mallorca

The company "Cabraboc" in Soller has the 40% aromatic gin and a Palo with 30%, classical produced with china bark- and gentian root extract, preferred as aperitif, on ice or with soda and a slice of fresh lemon.

The wine bodega "Ca'n Vidalet" close to Pollensa created a 40% Dry Gin with the name "Once" (11) - symbolising the number of Mediterranean herbs used for the distillation. Their snaps "Marc de Cecili" (43,5%) is a product of Cabernet-Sauvignon-Merlot-Syrah pomace, with the aroma of vanilla, herbs and pepper. Their Mojito "U37" (37%) has the basic of pomace snaps of dark grapes with fresh and dried herbs and citrus fruits, fresh mint and lemon grass. To be served well chilled as digestive.

"Ca Na Mora" a Swiss company in Porto Cristo offers a cognac-like brandy (43%), ripened 6 years in an oak barrel, produced of rest red wine. They also produce an orange liqueur (37%) from biological oranges, the awarded orange- and prickly pear snaps, distillates of St. John's wood, sweet potatoes, figs and the grapes Giro and Callet from the bodega Toni Gelabert.

"Eva's Destillery", half German, half Mallorcan company in Llucmajor sell their Gin "Eva" (45%) with wild Mallorcan juniper from the dunes of Es Trenc, coriander, angelica,  cardamon, romasery, wild fennel, local citrus fruits and many more herbs. Their "Felipe FLP" is a very mild Vodka.

Bodega "Suau" has - besides their famous Brandy - Gin (43%) and an orange Brandy. They use their Brandy Suau, ripened for 8 years in barrels and add oranges, a combination of the peel, the white skin and the juice of ripe, sweet Valencia oranges and dried peel of the tart, nearly bitter Curacao or Lahara orange.

The bodega "Antonio Nadal" - belonging to the company Tunel - has 2 variations of the actual trendy drink Vermouth, the white (basic Premsal grapes) and red (basic Manto-Negro grapes) Vermouth Muntaner, treated over 40 days with 12 different herbs like mugwort, juniper, cardamon, star anis, elder and vermouth herb.

All spirits can be bought in the wine and beverages shop "Isla Catavinos" in the industrial area Can Valero in Palma, Carrer Poima 6, www.islacatavinos.com.

Sports Events in April

14 April - "Six Day Final Mallorca". Bicycle race in the Palma Arena during 6 days with competition, party and entertainment. sixday.com Tickets www.ticketmaster.es

28 April - "Bicycle Race Mallorca 312", this 312 km long round course race leads from Playa de Muro through the Tramuntana to Andratx, Inca, Manacor and Arta. Offered are as well 225 and 167 km. Hurry up if you want to participate, the 4000 places are quickly sold out: www.mallorca312.com

Go Kart Mallorca 2018

04/03/2018 - 1ª Karting Magalluf

29/04/2018 - 2ª Karting Can Picafort

20/05/2018 - 3ª Karting la Ribera

09/09/2018 - 4ª Karting Chiva

11/11/2018 - 5ª Karting Can Picafort

www.mallorcarallye.com

Hillclimbing Cars

08/04/2018 - Pujada Aigües Blanques (cancelled due to road works)

21/04/2018 - Puig Major Revival (08:00 from Soller - Fornalutx - Ma-10)

06/05/2018 - Pujada Dual Sa Creu (09:00 from Military base Genova - MA-1043)

07/07/2018 - Pujada Son Mas (in front of ayuntamiento Andratx)

25/08/2018 - Pujada Sant Salvador ( road to Sant Salvador - Felanitx MA - 4011 )

06/10/2018 - Pujada al Puig Major

www.mallorcarallye.com

The new boutique of LINDT chocolate opened in Palma in C. Sant Miquel 17. Since many years LINDT chocolate has a shop in MallorcaFashion Outlet on the motorway Palma-Inca, km 7,1, Marratxi. www.lindt.es/shop

Here the bar keepers are mixologists, very skilled at mixing cocktails and other drinks.

There are bars where you go when you are thirsty and bars that welcome you with a special ambience and bar culture, like the "El Barito", the "Art Bar" in Hotel Convent de la Missio and the Chapeau 1987, sister bar of the popular "Ginbo". The bar "Chapeau 1987" in Palma offers living room cosiness with style. You enter another world, well looked after, lots of wood, classical. Nearly English look, elegant and still cosy. You find a huge selection of whiskies, several traditional cocktails like the oldest cocktail of the world "Old Fashioned", the modern classical like "Penicillin" and a selection of creative mixtures like "Salma Hayek" with Tequila, "Green and Dandy" with Brandy or "Monkey Meal" with Whisky. Like in a good restaurant, they use in this bar high quality products. On different competitions the 3 bar keepers have gained high awards. Chapeau 1987, daily 18:00 - 03:00, Paseo Mallorca 24, Tel: 871 90438 . Ginbo, Mon to Fri 10:00 - 03:00, Sat, Sun 18:00 - 03:00, Paseo Mallorca 14a, Tel: 971 722175. El Barito, Mon to Fri 17:00 - 02:30,Plaza Obispo Berenguer de Palou, 4. Art Bar, Carrer de la Missió, 7A, Tel: 971 227 347

Bar-Restaurant "Sa Jugueteria", Palma is fancy decorated with toys from many decades and very popular. The bar is illuminated with colorful light, like a children's room and their speciality are hamburgers. Starting at 10€ you can choose the beef with blue cheese, Guacamole, champignons or even Sobrasada. "Slow food, good food" it says on the entrance door to the kitchen, expecting you to be prepared for an eventual waiting time for your food. Meanwhile you are entertained by an old black and white Mickey Mouse cartoon. Open Tue to Sat 19:30 - 02:30. Carrer Pes del Formatge 4. Tel: 971 21 41 43. FB Sa Jugueteria

Close the Rambla in Llucmajor, directly opposite the memorial, remembering the lost battle of King Jaume III, opened the restaurant "Contrabando" (the smuggler), run by a Dutch lady and her Mallorquan partner. They cook so good that they already are number 1 in Llucmajor of the 55 listed restaurants on Tripadvisor, and nr. 3 of the total 5120 restaurants (from July 2017) on the island. The kitchen is Spanish-Mallorquan and the Dutch chef offers as well specialities of her home country, like delicious warm apple cake with raisins, walnuts and cinnamon or mussels in white wine sauce with vegetables. They offer cold and warm tapas, pinchos (skewers), llonguets (long bread rolls), some "pa amb oli", salads like the farmer's salad with the seldom offered, intensive tasting peix sec, dried fish from the neighbor island Formentera. 5 to 6 home made desserts and daily offers. Absolutly fair prices (pinchos 1,50€ to 2,50€, llonguets with big layers 5,25€ to 7,50€, tapas 4,50€ to 12€, desserts 4€. They use Spanish, preferred Mallorquan products even from Llucmajor, like the bread from the bakery Can Pau, liquors from Vidal Catany and fruits and veg from the market or the shop S'Hort Llucmajor. The interior presents typical smugglers accessories like coffee sacks, an old rusty bicycle (the people took the bike in the night to pick up the smuggled articles directly at the shore), tabacco cans, old whisky bottles, a frame with some stamps, a historical photo of the S'Estanyol harbor. Wooden tables and lamps they manufactured themselves, chairs bought old and restored. "Contrabando" offers the pleasant combination of good afortable fresh food, friendly service and owners, nice ambience and a lot of cosiness. Open Mon to Sun (except Tue) 17:00 - 23:30. Passeig Jaume III, Tel: 971 101673, FB: Contrabando

Restaurant "Astir" in the 5-star-Hotel Iberostar Grand Portals is also an eye catcher. Starting with a lavish breakfast (7:30 - 10:30), a mix of buffet and card for 25€ they offer best food with local and Spanish mainland products. Try the parted crab meat with pieces of sepia, strawberries and lobster caviar, accompanied by strawberry Salmorejo. Fascinating is the luke warm foie in combination with acidy apple, toasted Brioche, ginger, fennel and citrus aromas or the salad of scallops and asparagus with pine nuts creme and pieces of ham. The pork comes from the farm Joselito, one of the best brands in Spain, the beef from the Finca El Capricho, known for highest quality (cow-rib-steak 70€/kilo, ox-rib-steak 180€/kilo). Delicious desserts like the chocolate textures with crème fraiche ice cream, cherries and cherry liquor. To eat here is not cheap but a happening: starters 12€ - 25€, main course 20€ - 32€, desserts 10€ - 14,50€. Pretty restaurant with arches does not only impress with the food but as well with the aesthetics. The Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, who gained many awards has designed the cutlery, napkins, table cloths, lamps and the pool mosaic. His works are exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York or in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The decoration is a mixture of romantic, phantasy and beauty reminds on past times. Open daily 12:20 - 15:30, 19:30 - 22:30. C/ Falconer 19, Portals Nous. Tel: 971 100215, www.grandhotelportalsnous.com

PROPERTIES OF THE MONTH

#12914 - Apartment in Cala Mayor

Elegant modern two bedroom and bathroom apartment with south facing position, overlooking the village. Within walking distance to walking paths, sports activities, restaurants, shops, banks, the bakery, the beach and an illuminated walking and cycling path to Palma and further. Close to the marina and golf courses. Perfect if you want to live close to beach and marina. Some sea-view. Price: 450,000 € + tax.

#46908 - House in Cala Murada

Traditionally styled modern house, four bedrooms and bathrooms, with private pool in a south westerly position, overlooking the sea, the mountains and the countryside. Within walking distance to local nature. Close to sports activities, restaurants, shops, banks, the bakery, the beach and a small Spanish village. Idyllic area perfect if you want to live in the countryside. Price: 690,000 € + tax

For the moment we have 5 properties with tourist license for sale, they are all in Cala d’Or, here is an example;

#53848 - Apartment in Cala d'Or

Charming mediterranean styled villa, with 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, in a south westerly position, overlooking the pool and the garden. Within walking distance to the marina, walking paths, sports activities, restaurants, shops, banks, the bakery, the beach and a small Spanish village. Close to the golf course. Idyllic area perfect if you want to live close to the sea. Price: 380,000 € + tax

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