Ice art in the La Lonja quarter - in "Iceberg" the hand made sorts are partly vegan, all bio and extremely tasty. If you love ice cream you have to pass by this ice shop to enjoy a tempting refreshing orange sorbet from Soller with fresh mint and cardamom. The international expert jury awarded this creation as the best ice cream in the world. 70 different tasty sorts are offered every day, like caramel with pine nuts, Ensaimada ice cream, goat cheese with honey, lemon basilica, chocolate wasabi and many more. Their clients love real authentic hand made ice cream and not balls with unknown and partly artificial adding and artificial aromas or even powder ice cream. Palau Real 3 and C/ Apuntadores 12, Palma. www.iceberg-mallorca.com
Mozz'Art is a cheese bistro with shop, run by a young Italian team, producing fresh Italian cheese like Mozzarella, Scamorza, Burrata, Spalmabile, Ricotta and Stracciatella (not the ice cream). Daily they produce with 300 l milk approx. 50 kg cheese of different kind, no conservation or other adding. Among their gastro clients are star chef like Marc Fosh and Adrian Quetglas and the restaurants Nimo's, Canela, Niki Beach, Spoon and Toque de Queda. Try the cheese rolls with salmon and salad and the Mozzarella filled with basil pesto. In the bistro they serve the cheese in a bocadillo (bread roll), mixed cheese plates, Italian sausage variations and a kind of mini pizza. Open until 20:00, Tel: 971 158684, C/ Obispo Campins, 8, Palma, FB: Mozz'Art, www.mozzartmallorca.com.
Popular bar "Can Biel Felip" in the middle of Palma. Already at 10 in the morning, the bar is packed with people, having their 1st or 2nd breakfast. That could be pa amb oli, a mixed tapas plate with frit, croquetas, ensaladilla, pica-pica. The owner only uses local vegetables and fruits according to the season, potatoes are peeled fresh every day. Guests love the "pastenagues ofegades" (drowned carrots), a mixture of tender meat, coli flour, pine nuts, raisins, onion, herbs, lilac carrots and botifarrons (Mallorquan boiled blood sausages). The recipes have been published in a book, already a bestseller. So far only in Catalan language, translation into English is planned. This bar is worth a visit if you want to have the taste of a typical village bar in Palma. Carrer de Miquel Capllonch 45, Tel: 971 906831. FB: Can Biel Felip
The 38-year-old Caroline Fabian works as a private chef, offering shopping, breakfast service and serving. Of course after her job, the kitchen is perfectly clean. Caroline learned in a famous hotel in Munich, in Toronto and in Mallorca with the star chef Josef Sauerschell in Deia. Her cooking style is classical, Mediterranean kitchen with best products, healthy, light food, fish, salads and low sugar. She buys the biological meat and vegetables from farmers who guarantee best quality. privatecooking-mallorca.com
New Boutique Hotels around the island;
In the little village of Muro opened the Hotel Can Ribera, run by the hotel chain Zafiro. The hotel is located in a renovated mansion from 1870 and has 21 rooms. www.zafirohotels.com
In Calonge opened the Petit Hotel Sant Miquel with cozy rooms, and a swimming pool. Some rooms have sea view. www.petit-hotel-sant-miquel.com
In Maria de la Salut is the new 9 room Hotel Som Central, less luxury but very cozy. www.somcentral.com
In front of the Puro Beach in Palma's quarter Can Pastilla is the small rocky island Sa Galera. Even it is very tiny, there are archaeological excavations. In 2012 the team found shards of ceramic plates and jars, fishing hooks and coins from the Phoenician time. They discovered a 25 m2 big building made of Mares stone and the rest of a destroyed wooden hut. Further founding exposes a terrible crime, which must have happened around the birth of Jesus Christ. 10 skeletons show a violent death, rest of men, small children and a pregnant woman. To find out more about these people and their history, the researchers need a lot of money, because what they find is very exciting but as well very expensive to examine. Thanks to Puro Beach they have 11.000 Euro per year available and they plan, like last year, boat trips to the island for 6 to 8 persons once a week between June and September. After many years work, the archaeologists are sure that the rests come from different epochs, the oldest probably from 2500 B.C. Further information: https://nagalerapunica.files.wordpress.com
