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side classics such as butter-soft roast chicken and grilled beef with truffle-potato purée.
The three-course daytime menu (€15.50) is outstanding value.
Restaurant Celler Sa Premsa
SPANISH €
( 971 72 35 29;
www.cellersapremsa.com
; Plaça del Bisbe Berenguer de Palou 8; mains €9-14;
12.30-4pm & 7.30-11.30pm Mon-Sat)
A visit to this local institution is almost obligatory. It is
a cavernous tavern filled with huge old wine barrels and has walls plastered with faded
bullfighting posters - you find plenty such places in the Mallorcan interior but they're a
dying breed here in Palma. Mallorcan specialities dominate the menu.
Come here for the roast lamb,
tumbet
(Mallorcan-style vegetable ratatouille)
, frit Mal-
lorquí
(sautéed lamb offal with fried potatoes, onions and herbs), pork with cabbage, and
rabbit with onion.
Quina Creu
TAPAS €€€
( 971 71 17 72;
www.quinacreu.com
;
Carrer de Cordería 24; mains €9-35, lunch menus €9.90;
noon-1am Mon-Sat)
With its mishmash of vintage furniture, flickering haunted-house chan-
deliers and poster-plastered walls, Quina Creu works the shabby chic look. The bar has a
designer feel, as do the tapas lined up along the bar and chalked on the blackboard. Each
is a mini taste sensation, from
sobrassada
(paprika-flavoured cured pork sausage) with
quail egg to cod with
gambas
(prawns) and salsa verde.
Ca'n Joan de S'Aigo
PASTELERÍA, CAFE €
(Carrer de Can Sanç 10; pastries €1.30-3; 8am-9pm)
Tempting with its sweet creations
since 1700, this is
the
place for thick hot chocolate (€2) and pastries in what can only be
described as an antique-filled milk bar. The house speciality is
quart,
a feather-soft
sponge cake that children love, with almond-flavoured ice cream.
La Bodeguilla
SPANISH €€€
( 971 71 82 74;
www.la-bodeguilla.com
;
Carrer de Sant Jaume 3; mains €17-28; noon-11.30pm)
This gourmet restaurant does creative interpretations of dishes from across Spain; try the
cochinillo
(suckling pig) from Segovia or the
lechazo
(young lamb, baked Córdoba-style
in rosemary). Also on offer is an enticing range of tapas - the marinated cubes of salmon
with dill chutney caught our eye.
