Restaurants
Restaurant Wine & Food is a recommendable new restaurant on the Plaza Major in Palma. Run by the 33 years old Argentinian chef Cabagna , decorated with love and nice details by his wife and mother in law. They offer dishes with Mediterranean origin, but as well Asian and Latin American inspired food. Outstanding good is the duck Takati, served with slices of red wine pears and topped with a small vegetable-Gyoza (dumpling). The whole dish is strewn with sweet potato and yucca chips. Delicate are the crunchy caramelized pieces of tuna fish and salmon. Very tasty are the Mexican Quesadillas, the tuna fish with sesame crust or the perfectly spiced sea bass ceviche. Cabagna only uses good and fresh ground products, because the guests ask for it together with warmly service and fair prices. C/Sindicato 3 and Plaza Major 10 (corner restaurant), Tel.: 686 532710, www.wineandfoodpalma.com
Restaurant “Sa Travessia” on the entrance of the village Campos offers a lunch buffet which is unique on the island. Mallorquan delicacies, paella, meat and fish in all variations, soups, fresh salads and a dessert buffet, which lets children’s hearts beat higher. Palma-Campos km 35, Tel.: 971 652337.
Wine production
Nearly unknown is the Bodega Galmes I Ferrer in Petra owned by Arnau Galmes. He studied viniculture and oenology in Valencia and Tarragona, worked on vineyards, characterized the wines of Macia Batle, advised the vineyards Oloron and Xaloc and works since 2007 in the bodega Jose Ferrer in Binissalem. And since his young age he takes care intensively of the bodega of his family, created by his grandfather. The bodega produces approx. 50.000 liters wine. The classical one is the red wine Pujol de Maria, a cuvee of 40% Cabernet, 40% Merlot and 20% Shiraz with intensive taste of ripe cherries and spices. The other wines are sold under the name Galmes. The white wine, a cuvee of 50% Chardonney, Premsal Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier has 14% alcohol, tastes fresh fruity and goes perfect with light colored meat, fish of tuna fish tartar. The rosé exists in 2 versions – a classical one with 14,5% alcohol with grapes of Cabernet, Merlot and Shiraz. The wine convinces with its intensive color of raspberries, slightly sweet and strawberry tasting. The other version is a light rose, elegant cuvee of 50% Gorgollassa, Merlot, Callet and Fogoneu with only 12,5%. And finally the Galmes red wine, a cuvee of 40% Callet, Fogoneru, Merlot, Shiraz and Mantonegro. C/Barracar Alt, 56 (corner C/Bellavista) Petra, Tel.: 600 752276.
Furniture made in Mallorca
Casa Lima, in Palma, is the shop that shows how high valued design can be combined with Mallorquan handicraft and details from other areas in the world. Tables, lounges, sideboards are manufactured from Mallorquan carpenters in Santa Maria. The craftsmanship masterpieces of hand chosen massive timber are suitable for indoor and outdoor. They make sure that the wood comes from sustained forestry, especially the Iroko wood, the African and extremely beautiful teak wood. In the moment tables with metal legs are popular, like the 3m long Iroko bar table that has a lengthwise deepening in the middle in form of an aluminum dish for champagne bottles and ice cubes. No matter if the wood is combined with steel, glass or stone, these individual and precious tables convince because of the wood, the plain design and the high functionality. Each piece is unique, can be manufactured to measure and exported. The lounge can be produced in all sizes, decorated with beautiful cushions, sewed by tailors from Mallorca. You find small details like the compact ashtray of clay, the iron wall lamps in form of a bull relief. The lamps are made of filigree silver, wicker, raffia or wood. Unusual lamps, perfect as well for terrace and garden. Strolling through the shop you see huge clay vases, mirrors, antique doors from houses of a mountain tribe in Indonesia, African art of wood and shells, a sideboard of sea washed teak wood roots. Carrer dels Paraires, 23C, Tel.: 971 729550, www.casa-lima.es
