La Botigueta & Sushi Restaurant Review

Located on a busy street between the main square and the Calvary steps, this restaurant is perfectly placed for you to see and be seen, sit out doors and watch the world go by or enjoy the sleek minimalist interior as you eat beautiful food and drink elegant cocktails.

La Botigueta have recently added ‘& Sushi’ to their name and offering where they used to serve solely Spanish cuisine. As the only sushi spot in Pollenca and the port of Pollenca, it’s given this restaurant a new niche role in the over populated restaurant world. Making a sensible choice to keep tapas on the menu too, this is now a great spot to bring a crowd who can't make up their minds, since you can mix and match from the two menus and also have the option of ordering pizzas and pastas from the sister restaurant La Penya Pizzaria next door.

The tapas is traditional, simple and well made, but honestly if you’re coming to La Botigueta & Sushi then you’ve got to try the sushi! It’s made with skill and precision, packed with fresh ingredients and cooked to order by the sushi chef working on display inside the restaurant.

The sushi menu is extensive offering many different combinations of flavours in traditional sushi rolls of several different sizes and styles plus sashimi and nigiri, offering such fish as salmon, tuna, sea bass, octopus, eel as well as meat and vegetable options. The menu is easy to read, explanatory without being patronising and each section has a simple decorative drawing next to it depicting the style of sushi so that any one branching out for the first time knows exactly what they’re ordering. In addition the traditional sushi items La Botigueta also offers noodle and rice dishes, grilled fish and meats, tempura battered fish meat and vegetables and an impressive choice of 6 tartars – raw fish or beef marinated and dressed in a variety of beautiful and elegant flavours.

How much you spend is up to you, a tartar or noodle dish will cost you up to €15 and is suitable for a small main meal, the sushi comes in arrangements of 1 – 9 pieces and can cost you €5 a piece or €5 for 6 pieces depending on what you’re ordering. Experiment and order a few different things to try or check out one of their selection plates offering 20 – 40 mixed pieces chosen for you by the sushi chef.

Whilst you’re exploring the tastes sensations on the menu do not forget about drinks, La Botigueta is not only the place to go for sushi it’s a hot spot for cocktails as well. They pride themselves on the fresh ingredients in all their cocktails, the strawberry daiquiri is a firm crowd favourite and their sangria stands out from the crowd by containing brandy and banana liquor - best of all they won't break the bank starting at €4 and working up from there. The wine selection is extensive and you can find Japanese beers and spirits on the menu too but the stand out celebrity of their drinks selection has got to be their gins.

If you’re a gin and tonic fan you’re going to be in heaven here, the 10 different G&T options on their menu do not even covering all the premium gins they have to offer. Not content with just stocking all the gins they’ve also got a range of tonics and you’ll find G&T’s offering ingredients like juniper, cucumber, vanilla pods, basil, and rosemary, if you like your gin this is the place for you!

Open for lunch and dinner La Botigueta is well worth a visit, it offers something different to the rest of the restaurants filling this town, have patience with the service, it runs to it’s own time frame as the sushi chef works alone preparing each dish freshly to order, order some cocktails from the friendly wait staff and trust that when the food arrives it’ll be worth it.

Head here if you love sushi, gin or cocktails, if your party can’t make up their mind what to eat, or if you want to watch the world go by from a great vantage point in the centre of town, and if you just want a quiet night in then La Botigueta’s whole sushi menu is available to take away.