Best Restaurants in Palma Old Town

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DINS Santi Taura holds one Michelin star, since 2020, and two Repsol Soles. The whole restaurant runs on one tasting menu, Origens: 11 courses tracing centuries of Balearic recipes with contemporary technique, with an option to add three more, and a vegetarian version, Pagesia, if you request it when you book. Many of the plates the food arrives on are handmade by artisans. Sit at the Chef's Bar and watch each dish plated and explained, or take a table in the dining room; either way, Santi Taura walks you through the menu himself. It's on the ground floor of the El Llorenc Parc de la Mar hotel, a few steps from Palma Cathedral in Sa Calatrava. The menu runs 125 euros per person, reservations need a credit-card guarantee, and it's closed Sunday and Monday.

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Marc Fosh is the eponymous restaurant of British chef Marc Fosh, set inside the Convent de la Missio, a 17th-century former seminary turned boutique hotel in Palma's old town. Fosh trained in London at The Greenhouse and the Michelin-starred Chelsea Room before working under Martin Berasategui at Bodegon Alejandro in San Sebastian, and in 2002 became the first British chef to earn a Michelin star in Spain, at Read's Hotel. This restaurant, previously called Simply Fosh, now carries one Michelin Star and one Repsol Sol. The kitchen runs contemporary Mediterranean cooking on clean flavours and seasonal Balearic ingredients, with several tasting menus at different lengths and price points across lunch and dinner, plus a more affordable lunch option, all changing with the season. It's open Tuesday to Saturday, with private dining available for up to 10 guests.

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Aromata is chef Andreu Genestra's relaxed Palma project, the casual counterpart to his Michelin-starred, Green Star restaurant elsewhere on the island. It opened in 2014 in the courtyard of the Centre de Cultura de Sa Nostra, picking up a Repsol Sol, then moved in late 2024 to the ground floor of the HM Palma Blanc hotel on Carrer Ramon y Cajal. The idea is high-end Mallorcan cooking at gentler prices than a tasting-menu temple. The Michelin Guide lists it Selected, Repsol gives it one Sol, and the kitchen runs contemporary Mallorcan cooking on the best local Balearic ingredients, with a midday menu and a la carte at lunch, and the Aromata and Sentits tasting menus plus a vegetarian Verd option at dinner. Repsol singles out the roast porc negre with corn and apricot.

Forn de Sant Joan occupies a former 19th-century bakery on Carrer de Sant Joan, in the heart of La Lonja near Palma Cathedral, and runs under the Forn Projects group. The kitchen does Mediterranean fine dining built around tapas and shared plates, alongside pastas, main courses and desserts, paired with sophisticated cocktails and a wide wine list. It's open daily, lunch from 1pm to 4pm and dinner from 6:30pm, running later on Friday and Saturday nights to 11:30pm. TripAdvisor reviewers rate it 4.4 out of 5 across more than 3,300 reviews. Book online through the restaurant's own site, by phone, or email the Forn Projects team directly for groups and special requests. It's a short walk, about a minute, from Sa Llotja de Palma, an easy stop after a wander around the old town's harbourside streets.

Botanic sits inside Can Bordoy Grand House & Garden, a hotel among the old town's noble mansions, with dining rooms opening onto what the hotel calls the largest private garden in the quarter. It opened as Mallorca's first plant-forward restaurant under founding chef Andres Benitez, whose Repsol-listed menu featured a lettuce-leaf vegetable taco and a cherry-tomato Vietnamese pizza with fresh basil and handmade Mallorcan burrata, with tasting menus at 65 and 90 euros. After more than five years, Benitez stepped down in June 2026 and chef Jhonatan Maldonado took over. Maldonado trained at the UIB hospitality school in Mallorca and has cooked at Zaranda, Coque and Park Hyatt; press describes his style as a dialogue between his Chilean roots and the Mediterranean. It holds a Repsol Recomendado listing; confirm the current menu directly, since the change is recent.

Fera occupies the ground floor of the Circulo Mallorquin, a historic Mallorcan palace just off El Born, with a dining room that opens onto an interior garden. Chef Simon Petutschnig, born in Austria and trained there in classical French cuisine before moving to Spain in 2005, calls his cooking borderless Mediterranean: Japanese technique built on local, seasonal ingredients, including produce from the restaurant's own Montesion Wine Estate and Son Naava olive oil. It runs on tasting menus, a Chef Menu at 149 euros and a reduced version at 99 euros, both with vegetarian alternatives, alongside wine pairings. Fera holds a Repsol Recomendado listing and is a member of JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs. It's closed Tuesday and Wednesday, with Thursday and Sunday service dinner-only, so check the calendar before booking.

La Bodeguilla has run since 1986 on Carrer de Sant Jaume, squarely in the old-town core near Jaume III. It works as both restaurant and wine shop, with more than 300 Spanish and international references on the list, and a two-floor room where wine barrels double as tables. The kitchen sticks to Spanish, Mediterranean-rooted cooking, treating ingredients with what it calls sencillez, humildad y tecnica, simplicity, humility and technique, cooking to order around the day's best product. It's a family business and part of Grupo Amida, the Palma hospitality group also behind Periplo Portixol, and it's listed in the Michelin Guide as Selected. Open daily from 1pm to 11pm, it's an easy old-town stop for lunch or dinner without needing to plan far ahead.

Emilio Innobar sits on Carrer de la Concepcio, a quiet lane a short walk from El Born and Jaume III, in a restored old building with large windows. Founder chef Emilio Castrejon, who has South American and Japanese heritage and worked in Japan before settling in Mallorca, built the place around what he calls Fusion Fina, blending Mediterranean, Asian and Mexican elements with sashimi, tataki and ceviche at the centre. The kitchen is now directed by Marcus Cardoso, who trained under Castrejon, and dishes are designed for sharing, changing with what's fresh at the market. The open kitchen means you can watch the plates come together from the dining room. It's open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Sunday and Monday; email reservas@emilio-innobar.com to book.

Toque de Queda opened in 2014, founded by Alicia Arduini and Andrea Cavate, both from Italy's Emilia-Romagna region. It occupies a restored bakery more than 60 years old, the former Forn Cremat, built around an old Arab oven the owners say is one of the few left on the island, and keeps the original furnishings across three rooms and a terrace near La Rambla. The kitchen does fresh, homemade Mediterranean and Italian small plates, tapas, salads, sandwiches, hot cocas, charcuterie boards, fish and desserts, alongside a deli and champagne bar, with charcuterie sourced from Italy, Catalonia, Galicia, France and Mallorca. Alicia, who comes from a family of pastry chefs, makes the desserts herself. The menu changes roughly every six months, and vegetarian, celiac and lactose-free needs are catered for. It's open evenings, Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday.

Mar de Nudos sits on the Moll Vell, the old marina at the foot of La Llotja and the cathedral, founded by Marco di Loreto. The kitchen pairs Japanese and Mediterranean cooking with a seafood focus, plating dishes with an eye on texture, colour and presentation, and a cocktail programme runs alongside the food. It keeps long hours, open daily from 1pm to 1am, so it covers lunch, dinner and a late-night option in one sitting. It's a short walk, about three minutes, from Sa Llotja, an easy stop on a wander through the harbourside old town. Reservations run through the restaurant's own website, and TripAdvisor reviewers rate it 3.5 out of 5 across more than 800 reviews.

De Tokio a Lima is a Nikkei restaurant, the Japanese-Peruvian fusion tradition, folded together with Mediterranean influences under chef German de Bernardi, who the restaurant describes as devoted to the sea and its produce. The Palma location sits inside Hotel Can Alomar near Passeig del Born, with a second outpost in Valldemossa. The kitchen leans avant-garde in its preparation, built on seasonal, locally-sourced produce from local farmers and artisans. It's open daily, lunch from 1pm to 3:30pm and dinner from 7:30pm to 10:30pm. Online bookings run up to seven people, with tables held for fifteen minutes past the reservation time. Google reviewers rate it 4.5 out of 5 across 590 reviews, and it's about a four-minute walk from Sa Llotja.

Arume is chef Tomeu Marti's Japanese restaurant on Carrer de Sant Miquel, the pedestrian shopping street near Placa d'Espanya. The room is built around a large open kitchen wrapped by a long bar, so guests can watch the team work. The cooking is Japanese seen through a Mediterranean lens, and Repsol, which lists it Recomendado, singles out the entrecote tataki Thai salad, assorted nigiri, and prawn-and-sea-urchin parcels in tempura; the carta also runs to tuna tartare, an Arume sashimi selection, a house chili crab and a duck, foie and shiitake dim sum. It's open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, though listings disagree on the exact closed days, so confirm before visiting. Google reviewers rate it 4.6 out of 5 across 892 reviews, and TheFork scores it 9.4 out of 10. Book by phone or on TheFork.

La Malvasia has run since 2021 on Placa del Mercat, in the old-town centre, with a second location on Placa de l'Olivar. It takes its name from the Malvasia vineyards of Banyalbufar in the Serra de Tramuntana, and pours its own Malvasia wine from the Ca'n Pico vineyard alongside seasonal, ingredient-led Mediterranean tapas. The Placa del Mercat terrace is one of the more visible in central Palma, an easy spot to walk past and decide to stop. TripAdvisor reviewers rate it 4.7 out of 5 across more than 2,300 reviews, and TheFork scores it 8.3 out of 10. It's closed Sundays; book ahead through TheFork, especially for a table on that Mercat terrace.

Bondo Cocina runs a small Argentine-Mallorcan tapas menu on Carrer de Vallseca, in the streets just behind La Llotja, about a minute's walk away. It keeps a low profile online, just a menu and a booking widget rather than a long backstory, but the crossover of Argentine and Mallorcan cooking is distinctive within the old town's tapas scene. It's dinner-only, Wednesday through Saturday, closed Monday, Tuesday and Sunday, so plan around that narrower window. TripAdvisor reviewers rate it 4.9 out of 5 across 97 reviews and TheFork scores it 9.6 out of 10. Book through TheFork, or reach the team directly by WhatsApp or email; the site runs in both Spanish and English.

Kaizen Sushi Bar & Shabu Shabu, named for the Japanese idea of constant improvement, sits near Santa Eulalia in the old town, on Carrer de l'Argenteria. Chef Ismael Rojo's menu pairs sushi and sashimi with shabu-shabu, the simmer-it-yourself hot pot, built around values the restaurant states as product, respect, technique and dedication. It calls itself a well-kept secret in the centre, and the reviews back that framing: Google rates it 4.9 out of 5 across more than 1,500 reviews, TripAdvisor 4.9 out of 5, and TheFork 9.7 out of 10. It's open Monday to Wednesday for dinner only, and Thursday to Saturday for both lunch and dinner, closed Sunday. Reservations run through Restoo, and the full menu is published online through their digital menu link.

Born 8 sits at Passeig del Born 8, on what the venue calls Palma's golden mile, part of the Enjoy Group, with a terrace looking out over the promenade and a recently renovated bar leaning on signature cocktails. The menu is wide-ranging and international: top-quality meats from northern Spain and locally, Thai woks and appetisers, fresh pastas, salads, seafood and tapas, with listed dishes including a king prawn and mango ceviche, a Km0 tomato salad with burrata D.O.P., thinly sliced artichokes with crispy parmesan, a tapas tower and a Born8 cheesecake. It's open daily from 11am to midnight, an easy stop whatever time you land on the Born. Google reviewers rate it 4.4 out of 5 across more than 4,200 reviews, and it's about a five-minute walk from Sa Llotja.

Kamaleonico Palma leans into its name, versatility, swapping between styles to suit whatever a guest is after, served on La Rambla in the old-town centre with both indoor and outdoor seating in a modern room with rustic touches. The carta spans hot starters, Roman-style pinsas, a Japanese-leaning Japo section, burgers and desserts, all published on the restaurant's site. It's part of Grupo Kamaleonico and open Tuesday to Friday from 12:30pm to midnight, Saturday to 1am, closed Monday and Sunday, with reservations recommended across brunch, lunch and dinner. Google reviewers rate it 4.4 out of 5 across 923 reviews. Indoor and outdoor seating make it a flexible pick for groups with different cravings, an easy stop about eight minutes from the Ferrocarril de Soller station.

Maria 5 Urban Restaurant is the central-Palma sibling of the Maria 5 brand, set inside Hotel Cort on Placa de Cort, the old-town square in front of the town hall. The site describes it as the most formal and urban of the Maria 5 venues, with an interior dining room and a large shaded terrace under a centuries-old olive tree. Head chef Gunnar Blischke runs Asian and international fusion built on Japanese technique across both Maria 5 venues, this one and the seafront Maria 5 Beach at Camp de Mar, with attention to presentation, signature cocktails and a curated drinks list. It's open daily from 8am to 9:30pm, covering breakfast through early dinner. Google reviewers rate it 4.3 out of 5 across 234 reviews. Book online, by email at restaurante@hotelcort.com, or by phone.