“The Chef does not rest on her laurels.”
Cuisine: Majorcan
Website Link: https://macadecastro.com/
Overall Rating: 7/10
Food: 7/10
Service: 8/10
Atmosphere: 7.5/10
Would I return: Yes – but not too soon.
What you need to know: 1 Michelin Star, family owned restaurant, with a more casual spot (also owned by the family) downstairs. Tasting menu only. Reasonably priced menu and wine list.
Verdict: One of the islands few Michelin Star restaurants, Maca de Castro, where Head Chef Macarena de Castro has created a tasting menu heavily influenced by the flavours and ingredients of Mallorca. The menu is of solid Michelin standard with one course – the Flower of Potato with sobrasada and suckling pig sauce – worthy of a second star. The sauce alone is so good I’d gladly order a pint. The tomatoes served as dessert (like nothing you’ve tasted before), local shellfish deep fried and served whole, and mussels topped with an amber drop of sobressada oil were also very successful plates.
Less successful was the quail with sardine, and the goats milk, pine, and oyster (I’ve sampled many oyster desserts, they never work). Several of the plates were softer, and slimier than I would have liked, and needed texture.
Maca de Castro is an inventive Michelin Star restaurant where the Chef does not rest on her laurels. New ideas are constantly being developed, the menu is likely to be entirely different each time you visit. Ingredients are as local and seasonal as they come: The Green star reflects Macarenas considerable efforts to produce a sustainable, ultra-local menu, with 90% of produce used coming from their own farm.
This is a white tablecloth, elegant restaurant, with the level of service and wine list you’d expect. The space is a quiet and little sterile, nevertheless, I would absolutely return – but given the strength of the casual offering in Mallorca, I’m unlikely to revisit this more restrained restaurant too soon.
Sabrina Goodlife.
