Emma McCrossan
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We found this place by checking the Michelin guide for the area, the restaurant is part of the Son Brull Hotel which is situated at the foot of the surrounding Mallorquin hillside.
The building inside and out was beautiful, lots of character and charm with wide glass doors and exposed stonework bringing in a sense of nature and calm.
We were greeted by the front of house who was lovely and given a choice of tables, it was very quiet as it was early-ish for dinner at 7.30pm on a Tuesday night at the start of the season.
They brought us some water to start and asked if we wanted a wine list, we said we wanted the tasting menu with the paired wines but we fancied an aperitif, so they brought us a cocktail menu first.
The cocktail list was well curated and had a good mix that would appeal to most paletes. I noticed that a lot of the cocktails used some of their inhouse ingredients made from citrus fruits and herbs from the surrounding land of the hotel. I picked the Son Brull Fizz which was marked as 'showcasing' a number of the aforementioned ingredients, my partner had the Side Car. Both cocktails were very well made and interesting, a little on the big side for an aperitif but we didn't ask about the size of them before ordering. Price of the cocktails was actually very reasonable given the ingredients and that fact we were in a high end hotel restaurant.
For the food I had the 3/65 tasting menu and my partner had the vegetarian selection, there were 12 dishes in total if you included the bread and snacks at the start and the petit fours at the end.
Each dish was simply exquisite and the local ingredients were delicate but full of punchy flavour at the same time. There was a good mix on both menus, with a selection of meat and fish dishes in mines. I'd like to review each dish separately however with a total of 20ish dishes between us that's a bit more difficult to do! You just have to take my word that each dish delivered real high quality cooking with locally sourced ingredients.
The paired wines were also very well matched, the majority of which were Mallorquin with a few from mainland. The wines were also chosen to suit the differences in each menu rather than the same wine for each stage of the menu, this was a really nice touch that made the meal individual to us both but at the same time making the overall dining experience cohesive and well thought out.
The staff were very knowledgeable about the menu and the wines, and they made us feel very relaxed but at the same time very special, which sometimes is hard to do in a traditional Michelin white tablecloth environment.
All in all it was a fantastic experience with many exceptional moments throughout, and although it was slightly more on the expensive side, we thought the price was actually very fair considering the talent of the chef, the quality of the ingredients, and the uniqueness of the wines.
Also, compared to other Michelin guide or starred reaurants we've been to, the price was actually very reasonable in this regard.