Convent de la Missió
Palma, Spain
Discover luxury hotels for gourmet breaks in Mallorca, Spain
Sun, sand and supreme scenery – Mallorca is a perennial summer-hols superstar with good reason, but there’s plenty left to explore beyond the bustling beach resorts. Head for the hidden crowd-free coves that stud the coast for the famous Mallorcan white-sand experience. Feeling cultured? Stroll Palma’s winding streets, crowned by the Renaissance-meets-Gaudí cathedral, or discover the pure poetry of literary-figure-loved Deià, once home to Robert Graves. Burn off all the salt cod and suckling pig with a hike or bike through the craggy Tramuntana mountains, then venture inland for rural respite in the form of hilltop monasteries and honey-hued villages.
Andreu Genestra
The man behind the kitchens of 17th-century rural estate Predi San Jaumell in Mallorca may have been born in the Balearics, but his culinary travels have taken him all over the world (via a three-season stint at El Bulli). Here in the Mallorcan countryside, he has precision-crafted a small but explosively flavoursome menu that takes island ingredients (home-grown olive oil, fish fresh from the coast, bread from the hotel’s own wheat fields) and turns them into contemporary culinary masterpieces. At an astonishingly good-value €38, his tasting menu is unmissable.