Holiday Tips - Food and Drink
Restaurants, Cafés & Bars
Every one of the Restaurants & Cafés selected by the Spotlight Team has been chosen for quality and value and a well established reputation for keeping up their high standards year after year, and for that added touch of style in decor and service which sets them ahead of the rest.
Restaurants
Restaurants are open for Lunch from around noon to 3.30pm; Dinner from around 7.30pm to whenever. Remember, the Spanish dine really late.
We have categorised restaurants under (surprise, surprise) 'Restaurants' in Towns.
If you're lucky enough to be visiting here in the beautiful winter months, you'll find that quite a few of our restaurants have remained open. However, it's best to be sure by telephoning, as they could be closed for redecoration or holidays.
Restaurants in:
Ibiza Town
San Antonio
Santa Eulalia
Visit Ibiza Restaurants for even more restaurants and Spanish recipes
Cafeterias
Cafeterias are modestly priced eateries which stay open all hours, usually with less ambitious menus and informal service.
You'll find these under cafés and bars. You'll see that some Bars serving food are also in this category.
Local Drinks
Sangria
Spain's most famous drink, comes in a variety of recipes according to who's making it, but basically it's wine with added spirits, liqueurs, and chopped fruit. Thus red wine 'Sangria' may have
apples, oranges, etc. white wine or champagne 'Sangria' pears, apple, banana etc.
Hierbas Ibicencas
Anise based and flavoured with rosemary and herbs, is delicious on the rocks and said to be good for the digestion.
Frígola
Very sweet and aromatic.
Marí Mayans are the acclaimed producers of the island's best Hierbas and Frígola.
Granizados
Are fresh fruit juices, frozen and crushed.
Horchatas
Are frozen, crushed nut milk drinks - both these are a delicious and vitamin enriched way to quench your thirst.
Spanish Drinks Measures are definitely (hic) more generush (sometimes as much as triple!) than at home. So count three rounds for every one ordered and you'll stay happy enough to know you're having a good time.
Spanish Beers are, on average, stronger than back home and can surprise the unwary, not to put too fine a point on it!.
Mediterranean fish & seafood:
Local menus use Bacalao (Cod), Merluza (Hake), Emperador (Swordfish), Raya (Skate), Mero (Grouper), Lenguado (Sole), Rodaballo (Turbot) and delicious white meat fish you won't be used to, like Denton, Sirvia and the delicate tasting Dorada (baked in a salt jacket - yummy! - tastes just like lobster), Besugo (oven baked whole), Rape (Listen, I shall say this onlee once - you've gotta say rahpay!) and many more.
Order a Parrillada de Pescado (Mixed Grill of Fish) or Zarzuela (Fish Stew) and you will be presented with a selection of many of these.
The Spanish are great shellfish eaters and the variety here is enormous, ranging from Gambas (Prawns), Langostinos (King Prawns), Bogavanta (Lobster), Cigalas (Smaller, local chaps), Cangrejo (King Crabs), then there's Calamares (Squid), Pulpo (Octopus). Enjoy!
Spanish foods you have to try:
Paella
How can you go home without having eaten a Paella ? It's the traditional dish of saffron rice & choice meats & seafood, slow cooked in their own juices. You can also have an all meat
Paella (Paella de carne), or an all fish & seafood one (Paella de pescado y mariscos).
Recipe for traditional Spanish (Valenciana) Paella
Tapas
are snack sized portions of tastily cooked fish, meat, poultry, eggs & vegetables.
Guisado
is a rich, slow cooked soup with whole slices of fish or meat.
Sofrit Pages
is an Ibicenco dish of gently spiced pork, lamb & chicken, with gorgeous local sausages 'Sobresada' and 'Butifarra', whole sweet garlics, peppers & potatoes, all vaporised in their own rich
juices and sauteed with cinnamon, parsley & saffron (guess whose favourite dish this is!).
Ensaimadas
are Balearic croissants and come filled with cream, chocolate, sweet pumpkin (Angel's Hair) or simply dusted with icing sugar.
Greixonera
is a delicious pudding made with Ensaimadas.
Flao
is the local cheesecake made with herbs and honey.
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