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La Residencia Pool
Ca’s Patro March
Bens d’Avall
up him to two!” mid-way through an outstanding dinner there. Leonor Sauerschell is the maître d’ and presents Josef´s “dish-poems”. These include fillet of red barb with gambas and vegetable vinaigrette in saffron; roasted goose liver on balsamico dressing and canapé; or his renowned rack of lamb with olive crust and potato au gratin. Desserts include tart tatin of peach with pistachio-lavender ice cream, cold melon soup with mint, mango and yogurt-lemon ice cream or berries with white and black mousse of chocolate.
Bens d’Avall
A restaurant with a breathtaking location - it is perched on the edge of a cliff - and with equally memorable food. The Chef/Patron here is Benet Vicens who combines a passion for french gastronomy with his own signature style of traditional Mallorcan cuisine. A typically elaborate starter might be a carpaccio of red prawns, freshly sourced from the local port of Sóller, or caramelised foie gras, spiced fig bun and fine frost pumpkin. Then it might be rock fish with fresh almond cream and citric artichokes, or lamb from
GROVES AND ANCIENT OLIVE TREES, BENEATH
THE TRAMUNTANA MOUNTAINS.
Sierra de Tramuntana. As for puddings, these are surely compulsory: from white chocolate mousse with wild red berries to millefeuille of Cuban chocolate with spiced bread, fresh mint sherbet and Angel d’Or.
La Residencia Hotel
The same artistry on offer at El Olivo is carried through to its hotel, the legendary La Residencia. This fine old building is set among terraced orange groves and ancient olive trees, beneath the Tramuntana mountains. Its rooms, which look out through shuttered windows over fruit, flower and herb gardens, are decorated in calm natural tones and feature traditional antique Mallorcan furniture. There are 67 rooms, ranging from single rooms and superior doubles to a selection of suites with four-poster beds. At the top is the Tower Suite, for honeymooners and incurable romantics giving privacy, elegance and a panoramic vista of the mountains, village and sea. It's also the perfect venue from which to explore the gastronomic delights of Deia featured in this article.
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Restaurant Es Raco de’es Teix
LA RESIDENCIA HOTEL IS A FINE
OLD BUILDING ORIGINALLY
TWO RUSTIC 16TH AND 17TH
CENTURY FORMER MANOR HOUSES.
IT IS SET AMONG TERRACED ORANGE