On a very windy day in February, we wondered up the sea front in Port de Soller looking for some good tapas and a nice spot to shelter from the weather. Sa Barca filled both of these needs.
The restaurant is lovely and spacious with large, tastefully decorated tables giving it a cosy feel. The whole front of the restaurant is glass windows too, so we could continue to enjoy the view of the stormy sea throwing waves at the cliffs in the bay over our lunch.
We were quite set on sampling some tapas, so didn’t need to peruse the menu in too much detail, but there were also a selection of larger seafood mains on offer had we fancied this sort of thing.
During the short wait for our food to arrive, we were served bread with aioli, as is traditional on the island, and also enjoyed the local olive oil and Mallorcan salt which was on the table.
Shortly afterwards our medley of local classics arrived – padron peppers, fried whitebait, peppers stuffed with goats cheese and chicken croquets.
There was plenty more of the local salt served with the peppers, which were delicious whilst the whitebait were enormous! Topped off with the creamy goats cheese that generously filled the peppers, our light tapas lunch turned out to be a bit of a feast.
It’s easy to see why the Spanish opt for this social finger food as an evening snack or lunch and Sa Barca seem to be serving it exactly as it should be. Their tapas menu is not huge, but they are clearly focusing on doing a few things very well.
The restaurant couldn’t be in a better position for enjoying the view of the bay, and I can picture the terrace being a lovely place to spend an evening eating great food and looking out over the boats in the harbour during the summer
