Log Ninety – It’s All About the Food

23 June 2023

I enjoy food but please don’t ask me to critique the food I eat or provide a insightful comment on the complex flavours I might be experiencing. That said we have enjoyed some wonderful dining experiences in Mallorca and Ibiza.

We have dined on tapas, paellas, seafood and shellfish, and pasta. We have dined in beachside restaurants that look more like shacks and street side cafes in Palma.

The most challenging dining experience was arriving at a beach shack on a shingle beach in choppy water. A tender came to pick us up from our yacht but we had to get out of the boat and into knee deep, choppy water and then scramble up a shingle bank to arrive at the restaurant. It’s was not an elegant arrival. The departure was the reverse process however in the dark as the sun had set.

The ladies in their dining outfits did extremely well but there is no grace in getting into and out of a rocking dingy in the dark. All good fun.

The second experience was another beachside restaurant but this time on a sandy beach. The proprietor sent out a dingy to collect his patrons from their yachts. We landed on a lovely sandy beach and took a short walk to the restaurant. A far more dignified afternoon.

I have been intrigues by a couple of Australian curiosities in Palma. I found a bar offering TV coverage of the State of Origin and a number of other football competitions. More intriguing however was a souvenir shop offering boomerangs painted in Aboriginal artwork with the word Mallorca emblazoned across the piece. Bizarre!