Béns d'Avall Restaurant

Great place for the fine dining experience! The unforgettable place where I celebrated by birthday. The most amazing part of the restaurant is incredible views to catch the sunset. Food was great - a real representation of craftsmanship. The starter was this mix of three small bites, all of them in the shape of sweet desserts while the taste was savoury. That’s the great representation of what you will experience throughout the whole dinner - combination of sweet and salty. Loved all the dishes but I thought that lamb texture was a bit off (felt like can food) and for my taste too many deserts but all of them were incredible! Service is extremely friendly and well trained. All in all great experience!

Béns d’Avall is an exceptional restaurant that delivers on every level. The setting alone, perched high on a cliff above the Mediterranean with sweeping sea views, is breathtaking. The food is incredible — creative, refined, and rooted in Balearic tradition, with every course bursting with flavor and artistry. What truly elevates the experience, though, is the service: warm, attentive, and highly personalized, making you feel like a valued guest from start to finish. Nieve the manager and Chef Benet Vicens truly made the experience absolutely extraordinary. A visit here is more than a meal — it’s a memorable experience that captures the very best of Mallorca.

One of the best Michelin star(s) experience I've ever had. The food is absolutely sublime, executed and presented to a very high standard, respecting the seasonality and the local influence. The service is exquisite, running like clockwork, and the atmosphere and the view is simply stunning, making the whole experience unforgettable. Note, they only serve tasting menu and you won't know what you'll have until you get it. You have to let them know any dietary requirements at the time of booking (the do offer pescetarian menu, which I had, not sure about the vegetarian; they did not offer the vegan option, however, if I remember correctly). Do allow yourself enough time to get there as the road is quite tricky.

Very deserving of its Michelin star. Firstly the view. It is unrivalled. We've travelled pretty extensively and eaten at quite a number of fine dining restaurants and we had to pick our jaws off the floor when we saw this view. We were actually a little apprehensive when reading the negative reviews about the food but by the end of the night, we were so glad we came. The food fitted very well with other fine diners and others of the same calibre when it comes to Michelin stars, if not more stars. Ignore the haters, I'm not sure they quite understand what fine dining in Europe and the rest of the world entails. Service was spot on, nice touches with a blanket for after the sun set and extra cake course to celebrate my partner's birthday. Contacting a taxi prior to our bill payment. Lads who are looking for a place to propose to your significant other, this is the place!

Walked out… Had high hopes for this place but the service and food were both bad. It took almost 3 hours to get through the appetizers and main course. I say “get through” because the dishes were pretty terrible actually. Savoury fillings put into sweet pastries, dishes with too many competing flavours (and way too much salt). The worst offender, the lamb dish which as another reviewer aptly described as “tasting like an old hotdog”. After the three hour mark we decided to leave, skipping the four remaining desserts. The price for this restaurant is ridiculous for the food they are serving. Can easily say worst meal of the year. I half expected someone to come out and tell me it was a prank. The actual restaurant location is nice and the view is good too.

Excellent choice both for views and quality of food. This is an innovative restaurant for presentation and concept. You mainly use your fingers to eat the 13 dish tasting menu. They use local organic ingredients and they modernize and twist traditional recipes. I read a lot of reviews and I really don't understand the bad ratings. Probably, they had never been in an upscale restaurant before . I made a reservation for a group of 6 and we were all very pleased. Just be careful if you have allergies, especially lactose intolerance because dishes are very complex. Sunset is incredible here!

WOW! Definitely the best restaurant on Mallorca. A delicious 12 course set menu with local flavors, local ingredients and cooking to perfection. I am visiting lots of Michelin-starred restaurants, yet Bens d‘Avall manages to surprise me again and again with the delicious courses. In addition, the location just offers stunning views on the sea and the sundown. A true highlight of our holidays!!

My wife and I had a perfect evening there on our honeymoon. It’s a full tasting menu so expect to be there almost 4 hours. We made a reservation at 730 and had the best view to watch the sunset. The sunset and view there is one of the best I have ever seen. Everything tasted amazing and I left full! There’s nothing worse than spending a ton of money and leaving hungry. We drove about 20 minutes from Port de Soller and they had plenty of parking outside the restaurant. It was a winding road up the mountain but if you were brave enough to rent a car you’ll do fine. Worth every penny. You won’t regret it!

Incredibly underwhelming. I went here for my birthday and had to book the experience well out in advance. Although the view was beautiful, the food was so disappointing and the staff was disrespectful. We had to send back nearly half of our courses and when we kindly noted that it wasn't for us we were told that it was because we "are American and not used to eating their type of food" and that they "were sorry we felt that way because most people enjoy it". I have been to fast food joints with more respect for their clients let alone a Michelin star restaurant. Each of the seafood courses were nearly inedible and the lamb looked and tasted like a raw hotdog. After hardly eating any of the dishes they insisted on us staying for desert and refused to comp us other than the offering of a cheese plate. Despite the excitement of this place, there are recent reviews that agree with this statement and have had much better meal options during my stay here.

so disappointed. We came here for my boyfriend's birthday & booked it 4 months in advance. The food was absolutely repulsive. Like I almost gagged at all of it & I eat everything. One of the courses was a piece of bread with olive oil, basically the only thing we could eat. The fish was super rubbery & just really bad. The shrimp- idek what to say to that. The lamb tasted like a Walmart hotdog that sat in water for 4 days. They asked us what was wrong because we sent back every dish after only taking a bite, we told them we didn't like it. This SHOCKED the owner (Katalina I think her name was). She was so offended and rude when we told her that. She said that she's been to America (we are American) and that she understands this type of food isn't "typical" for us or what we are used to. we have travelled a bunch, and have tried foods of all cuisines in many places, and this food was just bad. It wasn't an interest thing. They then told us that maybe next time we should put special requests on the menu . The view was beautiful though !! And our server was nice and attentive

Went here primarily for the view that they advertise. Was sat in the back corner with NO view of water or sunset whatsoever. We instead saw the back of the bar, where I had a wonderful view of the bartender. It was just a treat to watch him make my $25 Hugo spritz with a drop of liquor, a splash of champange, and 99% soda water. Then, I was served a raw cut of cod. Because this was advertised as an experimental gastronomical experience, I ate it not knowing any better until noticing my wife's was a flaky white while mine looked like a woman's vulva. The server fully acknowledged that it wasn't cooked and didn't apologize. I asked for a new Hugo spritz with no soda water and he prepared me a new one in the INSIDE bar with even MORE soda water. Fucker. Other than this, the food was meh. One dish looked like semen mixed with blue food dye and didn't taste much different than how it looked. Desert hit though. And the drive to the restaurant and back is BEAUTIFUL.

I discovered this place while swimming in the cove below, and was later recommended the tasting menu by many locals. Bens D'Avall gives an authentic Spanish culinary experience, most of the dishes I had never tried before. The menu was huge (which I personally thing could have been smaller), and the dinner ended up taking over 3 hours. I would come here everyday, if only for the wine and view.

The full tasting menu is pricey (€98), but an incredible experience from start to finish. Our bottle of wine was €30, although this was admittedly one of the cheaper bottles. They advertise this as an 11 course menu, however in reality it's more like 14 or 15 if you count the smaller items that they bring without any advertisement. We planned a 7:30 reservation so that we could enjoy the sunset and spectacular view. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate and there was a bit of rain, so no sunset, but still a great view. Our flight was delayed, and we were 1/2 hour late to dinner, and they accommodated us without hesitation. All of the courses were very good and nothing like I've experienced before. Since there were so many, I'll share a couple of the highlights. Majorcan Black Pig "espinagada" was not what we were expecting (it looks like a chicken pot pie), but sooo delicious. "The squid club" was calamari prepared 3 ways, the center of which was the texture of gnocchi - very baffling but equally delicious. The Posidonia oyster and mussel dish was my wife's favorite, while mine was the Minorcan Veal. The Arabian Citrus Snow was a delicious pallet cleanser which was prepared at the table in between the fish and meat courses. I could go on, but you should come and see for yourself. Other reviews have mentioned inconsistent service, and I can assure you this was not the case for us!

I travel 100 days a year, and recently used TheFork app on a trip to Mallorca. On one occasion the app converted a reservation for 2 into 20, created a huge problem. I get there and the Bens D'Avall expected me to pay 1000€ for thefork's blunder, but there is no table set up for a large party. Thefork's email confirmation says TheFork will bill me 1euro if I don't go to the restaurant, then they fraudulently tried to bill my card 100euro--though I ate at the restaurant, and sent them a copy of my bill. These thefork guys have an amateur app, sure, but their slimy business practices are the bigger problem, and they sided with a dishonest restaurant run by an old lady past her prime who doesn't understand email or customer service in the Information Age, got a reservation for 20 and never followed up with me...and TheFork amazingly gave them my credit card number. So I spent 170€ on dinner, tipped to 220€, and the restaurant some days later tried to bill me 1000€. It cost me nothing but a call to my credit card company, who had already recognized it as fraud. So beware, these guys engage in illegal business practices

Bens D'Avall is a Mallorcan fine dining institution, perched on the Tramuntana cliffs roughly half-way between Deia and Soller. Excellent quality though increasingly overpriced modern Spanish cuisine. Somewhat 'safer' menu compared to some of the island's newer fine dining options. Unfortunately also some service inconsistency. Views at Bens however are unparalleled. Given the western aspect, time it right and you can watch the sun set over the Mediterranean as you dine.

Lovely views, but overpriced food. The prix fixe menu was too many courses none of which wowed. There are other restaurants in the area with lovely views.