It is served with a romesco sauce, this one made with almonds that were more roughly crushed than normal and all the better for it. I started off with vegetables roasted on the grill using that wood smoke to infuse my plate with the maximum of flavour.

The kitchen is open for all to see in one of the dining rooms, where you get a birds-eye view of the wood burning oven with grilled meat a speciality, you can imagine how this was whetting my appetite.Īnd as it turned out, the Ibiza Sabor menu, as delicious as it looked was blown away in favour of their own special weekday lunchtime menu which offers three courses, two drinks and water for €35, which would essentially work out at the same as the menu I had gone in for, when the drinks are added on top.Įs Caliu uses fresh local ingredients to make their own take on Ibizan cuisine. Inside and out the restaurant is decked out in pretty pastel colours and carefully preserves its rustic charm. The restaurant is housed in an original Ibicenco farmhouse that's over 200 years old the waiter excitedly showed me a small gap in the ceiling where the Posidonia seaweed, used in the old days in roof making, could be seen. Wanting some peace and quiet on what was the very first day of a week's holiday, this served me very well. When I arrived, half an hour before lunch service was ending at 16:00, there were few people left in the restaurant and as I got my drink, it was evident that I would have the place largely to myself. We decided to pay a visit to Es Caliu, one of the prettiest eateries along this route, to try its special menu for Ibiza Sabor. The good news is that now many of the restaurants there are open during the winter, some with great lunchtime and weekend deals.

This stretch of road is known quite simply as ‘ Restaurant Road' and is really a place where you are spoilt for choice when it comes to food. The road to San Juan, Ibiza has had a facelift in the past couple of years, and whilst now much easier to navigate, the old road never deterred diners from stopping at one of the many restaurants that have set up shop alongside it.

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