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Three Mallorca hotels earn Two Michelin Keys, bringing the island total to seven
Mallorca's Michelin Keys 2026 selection, presented 18 September, takes the island to seven Two-Key hotels, up from four, as Cap Vermell is promoted and Four Seasons Formentor and Mandarin Oriental Punta Negra join directly. Cap Vermell's own restaurant Voro holds two Michelin Stars separately.
Cafetería San Siro has served Ballermann's German tourists since 1966
Cafetería San Siro, a family-run tapas bar on Playa de Palma's Ballermann strip, has operated since 1966 and is now led by third-generation owner Laura Mestres Mut, 37, whose 17-strong team serves a clientele that's about 90% German tourists in high season.
Llampuga season under way in Cala Rajada, with prices down from €15 to about €10 a kilo
Mallorca's regulated llampuga (dolphinfish) season runs from 31 August to 31 December, with seven boats fishing out of Cala Rajada this year and shop prices already down from about €15 to €10 a kilo, according to Cap Vermell's 'Sa pella pes mànec' column.
PortsIB awards the concession for a new restaurant at Cala Rajada port
PortsIB has awarded the concession for a new restaurant at Cala Rajada port to Limpiezas Generales de Baleares SL, covering 486.37 square metres with a 92,640-euro annual fee plus VAT over a 15-year term. No restaurant name has been announced yet.
New Menú de Hoy app maps daily set-lunch menus from over 130 Mallorca restaurants and bars
A new free, ad-free app called Menú de Hoy lets users compare dishes, prices and opening hours from more than 130 restaurants and bars across Palma and the rest of Mallorca, with about 80 menus updated daily.
Playa de Palma cafés say breakfast is replacing lunch for many German holidaymakers
Cafés on Mallorca's Playa de Palma tell Mallorca Zeitung that breakfast is increasingly replacing lunch for German holidaymakers, with some guests ordering schnitzel and beer soon after 8am and complete breakfast deals at some spots costing just under €10.
Palma named Gastronomic Capital of the Mediterranean Islands 2026
Palma has been named Capital Gastronómica de las Islas del Mediterráneo 2026 by the Academia Iberoamericana de Gastronomía, an organisation of academies from 17 countries. The title was presented on 22 September at Can Balaguer by mayor Jaime Martínez Llabrés.
Macià Batle wins two golds and two silvers at Mundus Vini 2026
Bodega Macià Batle took two gold medals, for its 1856 red and its Rosado, and two silver medals, for Margalida Llompart Rosado and Blanc de Blancs, at the Mundus Vini 2026 international wine awards in Neustadt, Germany.
Palma's historic Bar Plata finds a successor as Tolo Serra retires
Tolo Serra, who has run Palma's 70-year-old Bar Plata for 45 years, is handing the Carrer de l'Argenteria bar to a new team of Mallorcans in their thirties and forties by the end of 2026, on condition the llonguets and traditional menu stay the same.
Chef Jhonatan Maldonado renews Botànic's Palma menu with new tasting menu Pewma
Chilean-born chef Jhonatan Maldonado has renewed the menu at Botànic in Palma, debuting a tasting menu called Pewma that traces his Chilean roots through Mallorcan produce, alongside new handmade tableware from local artisans.
Azotea Grupo's two new restaurants at Club de Mar are named: Azotea Club de Mar and Saltao
Azotea Grupo has named its two new restaurants at Palma's relaunched Club de Mar: Azotea Club de Mar, a Mediterranean restaurant led by chef Manuel Berganza, and Saltao, a Peruvian-Mediterranean restaurant from Víctor Gutiérrez and his daughter Paula Gutiérrez.
Davide Bortone places two Binissalem wines at the top of a tasting of 139 Mallorcan wines
Italian wine journalist Davide Bortone gave the two highest scores in an 18-19 August tasting of 139 Mallorcan wines to Raf 110 2022 (Vins Nadal) and Supernova Negre 2025 (Can Verdura Viticultors), both DO Binissalem wines.
Raor fishing season opens in the Balearics as government declares stock fully recovered
The raor (pearly razorfish) fishing season opened across the Balearic Islands on 1 September, with the government now considering the stock fully recovered after more than two decades of a breeding-season closure. Mallorca Zeitung reports the fish are now almost three times as heavy as before.
Aromata is the first Mallorca ambassador for Menorca's Mostra de Cuina Menorquina
Chef Andreu Genestra's Aromata in Palma is the first-ever Mallorca ambassador restaurant for Menorca's Mostra de Cuina Menorquina, running 18 September to 4 October 2026 with a €29.50 Menorcan set menu.
Deutsches Eck opens a second Playa de Palma venue, Heimatliebe Mallorca
Michael and Feli Bohrmann, behind the cult Deutsches Eck at Playa de Palma, have opened a second venue — Heimatliebe Mallorca — serving German classics with a sun terrace.
Mallorca restaurant trade warns of its weakest September start in memory
Restauración Mallorca (CAEB) reports the weakest start to September it can recall — busy streets, but the problem is visitor spending power, not visitor numbers.
Soaring rents are forcing Mallorca restaurants out, federation warns
The Balearics restaurant federation warns that port and town-centre rents — around €10,000 a month — are pushing restaurants out and menu prices beyond many locals' reach.
Sukalde opens 'el Txoko de Patxi', a tapas and pintxos bar
Sukalde, the modern Basque restaurant from Grupo La Vasca in Palma's Centre, has opened el Txoko de Patxi — a bar area for tapas and pintxos that puts head chef Patxi Castellano front and centre.
Oli de Mallorca backs the 'Lisbon Manifesto' on olive oil and health
The Oli de Mallorca protected-designation council has endorsed the 'Lisbon Manifesto', a document urging that extra-virgin olive oil be built into public-health strategies for preventing chronic disease.
Palma holds Mallorca's first Ensaïmada de Mallorca fair
The inaugural Ensaïmada de Mallorca fair took place on the Diada de Mallorca at the La Misericòrdia cultural centre in Palma, gathering IGP-recognised bakers for free tastings of the island's spiral pastry.
Ritma and Pueblo among TheFork Awards nominees for Spain's best openings
Ritma in Fornalutx and Pueblo in Sóller are the two Mallorca restaurants among 41 nominees in the fifth TheFork Awards, honouring Spain's best 2025 openings.
Cappuccino reopens its Port d'Andratx Grand Café with a bigger terrace
Grupo Cappuccino has reopened its Grand Café on the Port d'Andratx marina after more than a year of renovation, with outdoor seating close to double the previous size.
Agromart opens its largest Mallorca shop yet in Inca, with a Marga Coll food counter
Agromart opens its biggest Mallorca store yet — a 500 m² Inca 'mega-market' with a fresh-food counter by chef Marga Coll and a Cas Sereno butcher — on 17 September.
Palma's Restaurant Association Wants Terrace Misters Legalised After Record-Hot Night
Mallorca CAEB-Restauración is asking Palma's city hall to update its 2018 terrace ordinance to allow water diffusers and misters, after AEMET recorded the city's hottest night on record.
Santi Taura and Tomeu Arbona to cook a one-night, 30-seat dinner inside Can Prunera on 18 September
Chefs Santi Taura and Tomeu Arbona will cook a single 30-guest dinner inside Sóller's Can Prunera modernist museum on 18 September 2026, a one-off event organised by Chefs(in) priced at 180 euros per person.
Ponderosa Beach in Muro named the Balearics' most sustainable coastal restaurant
Ecovidrio named Ponderosa Beach, the beach restaurant on Platja de Muro, the most sustainable coastal hospitality business in the Balearic Islands, in the seventh edition of its Movimiento Banderas Verdes campaign. The restaurant has held ISO 14001 certification since 2020 and sources 12.7% of its products regionally, well above the 3% legal minimum.
Mallorca's restaurant lobby rejects the government's proposed smoking ban on bar and restaurant terraces
Two Mallorca business federations, Restauración Mallorca CAEB and PIMEM, publicly rejected Spain's proposed smoking ban on bar and restaurant terraces in July 2026, warning of fines up to €10,000 and lost tourism competitiveness.
Puro Group selected to rebuild Palma's Punta del Gas restaurant in a €1.75 million project
The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands selected Puro Group's bid to rebuild and run the Punta del Gas bar-restaurant in Palma's port, a €1.75 million project with a concession of up to 14 years.
Palma's restaurant guild asks the city to stop street dinners from closing bar terraces
Restauración Mallorca CAEB has asked Palma's city council to find a way for the weekly 'Sopars a la Llesca' neighbourhood street dinners to go ahead without forcing nearby bar and restaurant terraces to close or scale back. The trade body also points to eight bars on Plaça de ses Drassanes that must move their terraces indoors for this summer's solar eclipse.
Guidavera now covers Mallorca: 413 places to eat and drink, ranked in the open
Guidavera's second destination is live: 413 places to eat and drink across Mallorca, including nine Michelin-starred restaurants, each ranked by a consensus model whose weights are now published in full.
Ca'n Biel Felip, one of Palma's last classic variat bars, closes after 30 years
Ca'n Biel Felip, the Cas Capiscol bar built around Palma's classic variat plate, closed for good in late July 2026 after more than 30 years. Founder Biel Roca, 73, had been looking for someone to take over once a staffing shortage forced the kitchen to cut lunch service, but no successor came forward.
Police and health inspectors shut down a Cala Millor restaurant over worker exploitation and hygiene failures
A joint police, labour and health operation shut down an unnamed restaurant in Cala Millor on 23 July 2026, citing serious hygiene failures and evidence that workers, including three without legal status, were being exploited and housed on site. The closure is provisional, with the owners given 10 days to fix the violations, and the restaurant's manager disputes the findings.
Playa de Palma restaurants demand answers after power cuts hit peak weekend
Restauración Mallorca CAEB is gathering documentation for possible legal action after repeated power cuts hit Playa de Palma's restaurants and bars between July 17 and 19, 2026. Two outages left around 2,000 customers without power in the stretch between Can Pastilla and Balneario 6, spoiling stock and shutting kitchens mid-service on one of the season's busiest weekends.
Mallorca's restaurant and hotel groups reject EU push to more than double VAT
CAEB, the Mallorca Hotel Business Federation and CAEB Restauración Mallorca have rejected a European Commission recommendation to raise Spain's reduced hospitality VAT from 10% to 21%. The trade bodies warn the change would raise prices for locals and tourists alike and point to Portugal's reversed 2012 VAT hike as a cautionary precedent.
Azotea Grupo opens two restaurants at Palma's relaunched Club de Mar
Madrid hospitality group Azotea Grupo opened two restaurants this July inside Palma's newly renovated Club de Mar marina: Azotea Club de Mar, a Mediterranean restaurant led by chef Manuel Berganza, and Saltao, a Peruvian-Mediterranean concept from chef Víctor Gutiérrez of Michelin-starred Tayta and his daughter, chef Paula Gutiérrez. Both sit inside the club's revamped dining complex, open to the public alongside members.
Dani García's Leña opens at the Mandarin Oriental Punta Negra in Mallorca
Chef Dani García's wood-fired steakhouse Leña opened to the public on 10 July 2026 inside the Mandarin Oriental Punta Negra in Costa d'en Blanes, joining five other restaurants at the Calvià resort. The Mallorca outpost runs a smaller format than Leña's Ibiza restaurant and adds a Mallorcan twist, including a reworked coca amb tumbet.
Voro becomes Mallorca's second restaurant with three Repsol Soles
Voro, Álvaro Salazar's restaurant at the Cap Vermell Grand Hotel in Canyamel, was awarded a third Sol in the Guía Repsol 2026, joining just two other restaurants in Spain to reach the guide's top rating this year.
Mallorca holds 11 Michelin stars in the 2026 guide, with no new ones added
Mallorca kept its 11 Michelin stars across 11 restaurants in the 2026 Michelin Guide Spain, with no new stars awarded on the island this year. Voro remains the only two-star restaurant.
Terrae in Port de Pollença earns a Michelin Green Star
Terrae, David Rivas's restaurant in Port de Pollença, received a Michelin Green Star in the 2026 guide, one of four sustainability distinctions on the island.
Mallorcan-cuisine restaurants now under 5% of Palma's dining, says trade body
Fewer than 5% of Palma's restaurants serve traditional Mallorcan cuisine, according to Mallorca CAEB Restauración, which says more have closed than opened in recent years even as demand stays high.
Andreu Genestra takes on the kitchens at La Reserva Rotana, opening in July
Michelin-starred chef Andreu Genestra is designing the gastronomy for La Reserva Rotana, a Manacor luxury hotel reopening in July 2026, with a celler-inspired "extreme Mallorcan" concept run day-to-day by chef Irene Lluch.
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News items come from a curated list of Catalan, Spanish, and English-language food and hospitality publications, plus authority sources (Michelin, Guía Repsol, and official local-government press). Every story has at least one source URL listed on its page, and most have two or more.
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Stories are added as they happen, after each item is verified against the primary sources. Significant openings, closings, and industry changes are added within days; smaller items are batched into weekly updates.
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