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I Foro de Turismo y Gastronomia, Food Fair in Palma this week

This week sees the first edition of the ‘Foro de Turismo y Gastronomia’ being held at restaurants in Palma de Mallorca. The festival hopes to promotes Palma’s many restaurants as well as its local Mediterranean/Mallorcan cuisine by offering specially priced menus at lunch and dinner at some of the best restaurants in the capital.

All menus on offer either cost 15 or 25 euros and there are 35 participating restaurants to choose from.

Our favourites include:
Tast Restaurant
Bri Restaurant
Bruselas Restaurant
Nautic Restaurant
Sambal Restaurant
Santa Eulalia Restaurant
Sushiclub Restaurant
Mesón Can Pedro Restaurant
Bens d’Avall Palma
Cuba Colonial Restaurant
Es Mercat Restaurant
Casa Jacinto Restaurant
Can Eduardo Restaurant

More info on menus: http://www.turismoygastronomiabaleares.es/actividadesPalma.php

Gin & Tonics at Corb Mari Restaurant in Pollensa

It looks like Gin & Tonic will once again be the  trendiest drink of choice this season in Mallorca! Gin & Tonic has been gaining popularity with the influx of premium gins at bars and restaurants over the last couple of years.

If you would like some tips on how to make your G&T a cut above the rest, go along to Corb Mari Restaurant this Saturday, 12th of May for a Gin & Tonic workshop presented by none other than ‘The Best Sommelier in the Balearics’; Toni Fernández.

Toni is not only very talented when it comes to wines and alcoholic beverages, but he is also extremely entertaining, so this promises to be a fun and educational way to spend an evening!

Corb Mari Restaurant is one of the Port of Pollensa’s best meat restaurants, so why not stay on afterwards for a tasty meal? To book your place on the course and for more information, please contact Corb Mari on 971 867 040.

An update from Es Vi Restaurant, Son Vida

Chef Pablo Mirañas

Es Vi Restaurant at Castillo Hotel Son Vida, in the exclusive area of Son Vida, Mallorca is now open for the 2012 season with cuisine by chef Pablo Mirañas de Cadiz.

Chef Pablo Mirañas is originally from Andalusia in southern Spain and specialises in creating traditional tapas dishes for Es Vi guests and diners. The tapas cuisine fits in well in this informal bodega or cellar dining area. The tapas incorporates traditional favourites as well as more local variants, such as a delicious Mallorcan tumbet. Diners will enjoy combining the dishes with a glass or two of wine selected from the extensive in house wine list.

For a perfect selection of the tapas available why not try the Tapas Tasting Menu (Menú degustación) which includes five dishes of innovative tapas, selected and prepared specially by the chef – for €40.

Es Vi is open for dinner from 19.30, from Tuesday to Saturday.

New at Piero Rossi, Puerto Alcudia – Sunday Brunches

From the 1st of April, you can have a great Brunch buffet every Sunday from 10.00 to 15.00 at Piero Rossi 1988.

All you can eat from the delicious buffet, whilst listening to the soft music and the sound of the ocean.

The buffet includes several different types of bread, yoghurts, fruit, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, salads, some Italian cuisine, cakes and much more…

All you can eat for only 10€ (drinks and tax not included).

Piero Rossi first opened in 1988 and now enjoys new premises at the Port of Alcudiamar. Enjoy your brunch buffet on its beautiful terrace right in front of the sea and the yachts.

Fira del Vi, Pollensa Wine Festival 2012

Coming up this weekend in Mallorca is one of the highlights of the gastronomic events calendar on the island: The Fira del Vi, Pollensa’s popular wine festival takes place this Saturday and Sunday, the 21st and 22nd of April.

If you are on the island this weekend, please do take the time to visit it, it is well worth it and a truly unique opportunity to try some of the island’s wines.

This is the ninth edition of this wine fair and the motto for this year is:
‘‘Wine is a work of art. The same grape varieties can be used to produce very different wines.’’

36 different wineries will be taking part, including wine makers from Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza.

On purchasing an entrance ticket you are given a wine glass and can then wander from stall to stall trying different wines and meeting the winemakers in person.

The fair will be open on Saturday the 21st from 10:00 to 20:30 and on Sunday the 22nd from 10:00 to 14:00 and takes place at the Claustre del Convent de Sant Domingo in Pollensa.