Es Canar Restaurants

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La Perla This typical Spanish restaurant is situated right opposite the bus station and taxi rank in the centre of the popular seaside resort of Es Cana, on Ibiza 's beautiful east coast. Just 100 metres from the beach 'La Perla' is a unique family restaurant in the village run by Christino, Paco, Lucky and their friendly staff who speak five different languages. Click here for their full web page

La Jacaranda next door sits on the corner where the local ferries dock. Being on the corner it commands the best sea views available in Es Cana including the full length of the beach and the coastline and cliffs to the North. Upwards of fifty tables on the extensive outside terrace ensure that you'll always find a place to sit and enjoy the menu which includes pictures of its offerings, presumably to cater for those who can't read? Click here for their full web page

Zodiac, opposite 'Seas Bar', is famous for its huge swimming pools surrounded by at least 100 sunbeds. It's a fairly complete self-entertainment facility for the kids with pooltables for those bored with the pool and a Wendy house in a toddler's enclosure for those too young to swim. Some fifty odd tables cater for diners on the covered terrace overlooking the pool, with a wide choice of family fare served from the kitchen and bar. Click here for their full web page

Solimar A large Spanish bar with one of the best sea views in Es Cana from its front terrace. Serves food throughout the day to suit the prevalent English palate. Click here for their full web page

Hostal Famingo Grill In our romantic garden you will find the famous Flamingo grill delicious all natural meat, chicken, vegetables, potatoes, salads and homemade allioli. Enjoy a glass of spanish wine in our candle light ambiance. Come over and experience the Flamingo grill is magic. Click here for their full web page

Closes down on November 1^st from being a bustling seaside resort to become a desert in the space of a few hours. Even buying a bottle of milk almost involves a bus ride. Then miraculously, on or about May 1^st it will suddenly re-open as if there had never been a Winter at all. This being the case all credit goes to the bars which buck the trend.

Arriving by the main road from Santa Eulalia your options fall, more or less, in this order.

If you turn left at the next crossroads towards Cala Nova beach you will find.

Bar 2 TT's is on your left hand side if you turn off the main road at the crossroads towards Cala Nova beach. The outside terrace again overlooks the small wood in the village centre. From it they serve English breakfast plus a range of snacks including burgers and toasted sandwiches. A pool table, dart board and video game machine provide the entertainment, as does the cheap beer.

Popeyes Bar a little further down the road - is big! Above a row of shops and the Toff Toff's disco, it comprises a large front terrace and an even larger side terrace with a swimming pool at the back. The side terrace often sees evening entertainers as does the big indoor area with the stage at the far end. The normal selection of food that you might expect here is supplemented by a 'Specials' menu that is not only diverse, but unusually reasonably priced. Pool tables, pinball, video games & more.

On the other hand if you turned right at the crossroads you would find what looks like countryside for a few metres, then reality again beginning with.

Tres Esquinas opposite 'Fred & Julia's' is very much a Spanish bar with a young local clientelle in the evenings. Ideal if your studying young, lively, local culture. The locals are friendly enough and the outside terrace is a pleasant place to watch another side of Es Cana life go by. Inside, if you like pool, music and pretty young things - this should satiate you.

Z Jee's
Almost opposite the Tres Esquinas this bar has a raised terrace outside and a friendly welcome inside. Lee is a mate. So he's always pleased to see us, but he treats every other visitor in the same way? Not one to take this as a slight, I presume the success of the bar is more likely down to the hand carved traditional Sunday lunch, the internet access, the 'Take your Pick', 'Open the Box' or 'Play your Cards right' battles that take place each evening?

Fred and Julia's Bar
Next door to Z Jee's, this is a large English bar unusually incorporating a small library. A pool table and bar snacks are available to accompany the English TV. A pool table and bar snacks are available to accompany the English TV. A bit hard to find, but worth the effort.

Los Jarros
Further down the road and round the corner leading back to the main road, this is a reasonably priced cafeteria style eatery - reputed to be the cheapest in town. It's busy so it can't be bad?

If instead you went straight ahead at the crossroads, you would have found.

Montemar on the main crossroads in Es Cana, has a big terrace overlooking the wood that occupies the centre of Es Cana village. Indoors they have a pool table and several TVs which pack the place when the football's on.

Granny's, next door, is a bar that also serves as a kiddies disco. Its underground but nonetheless lively. The bar splits the bar into two sections; the first is an area to which the DJ performs and the other half is the games room with table football & pool tables & video games including the dance floor.

La Perla, next door, is another Spanish bar/restaurant with a large outdoor terrace shaded by enormous pine trees and reasonably priced food.

Apache, with Indian theme and side terrace open again with pool table and kiddies corner.
The terrace on the other side overlooking the bus station and waterpark is enormous and has a big built in bbq. Wild west dancing girls decorate the walls and bullet holes.Open all year round with large screen Sky.

Mar y Huerta
This is on your right just before you reach the beach and has a pool in the back garden to save the walk across the road to the sea. They have a shaded terrace for those requiring sustenance and ferocious competition from the beach front restaurants.

These you will find at the end of this section, but for the time being let us continue along the main road following the coast line all the way to the famous hippy market.

Charlie's is in the centre of the village close to where the road train parks. This big bar overlooks the beach from its huge covered terrace. Inside can get messy at night when the DJs turn it up and on football nights when the massive indoor TV screen dominates one wall.

Restaurant Mar Vent next door, looks like an extension to 'Charlie's' from ouside. The only difference on the outside terrace being the whicker chairs. The inclusion of the term 'restaurant' suggests that they have a greater emphasis on feeding people. They also have an arcade games room and an internet access point.

Miranda
In prime position with a beautiful view of a very crowded beach. Catches the afternoon shade unlike the very crowded beach.

La Jacaranda next door sits on the corner where the local ferries dock. Being on the corner it commands the best sea views available in Es Cana including the full length of the beach and the coastline and cliffs to the North. Upwards of fifty tables on the extensive outside terrace ensure that you'll always find a place to sit and enjoy the menu which includes pictures of its offerings, presumably to cater for those who can't read?

Las Arenas opposite 'La Jacaranda', is a very nice but well hidden restaurant, small but quality with British and International cuisine

Around the corner in front of La Jacaranda, where the ferry docks.

Seas Bar, on the corner of the next junction, has a large terrace which is completely glazed in. This is partly for those rare days of inclement weather, but also an attempt to contain the noise on nights when they have live entertainment. Throughout the day it's usually busy with diners attracted by the outdoor menu boards.

Zodiac, opposite 'Seas Bar', is famous for its huge swimming pools surrounded by at least 100 sunbeds. It's a fairly complete self-entertainment facility for the kids with pooltables for those bored with the pool and a Wendy house in a toddler's enclosure for those too young to swim. Some fifty odd tables cater for diners on the covered terrace overlooking the pool, with a wide choice of family fare served from the kitchen and bar.

If you turn left opposite the Zodiac, here are a few other options.

Moonlites
Next door to the big art gallery on the corner below the Manila apartment block. This little bar is a youngsters pub with two TV's often showing MTV. When it's busy the action overflows onto a front terrace.

Cocoon is behind 'Seas Bar' up the side road and basically consists of an outdoor bar with a BBQ, table football and pool tables, but with the added bonus of a huge kiddies playground. A bit like a small park.

The Millennium Bar
In between Friends and Beau Lochs lies a new addition to the Es Canar options. This bar, run by one of our local entertainers - Dawn Allen, has rapidly caught on with the visitors. The music policy is determinedly middle of the road and that about summarizes the crowd, but they're having a good time and who can fault that?

Bar Beaulochs
Tel: 971 339 081
Bar Pumuky (aka Beau - Lochs) can of course be read in many different ways - which in every way sums up the distinctive humour of Nick, who runs an excellent bar and terrace. We can 100% guarantee that you will have your ears ringing with his unique welcome, friendliness, stories and general carry-on. A bar not for the weary and sad.
They are situated just off the front in Es Cana next to the only Chemist in town and have a great range of beers, cocktails and very reasonably priced good food - also probably the cheapest beer in Es Canar. At night the terrace catches a light sea breeze to help get over the beach and aid the beer to slide down. Have fun all of you of Bravehearts. They now have Internet access via a multi-media pc .

Bar Los Pino's further up the road from 'Beau Lochs', is a large Spanish bar which can get busy when they stage evening entertainment.

Uno's Tavern next door is a bit of a contrast. You walk through the door into what could be any pub almost anywhere in England. All wood panels, horse brasses and walls crammed with pictures. A comfortable, spacious bar with the obligatory full size pooltable. Then outside a swimming pool, paddling pool and sunbeds. Inside it's England, but warm. Outside it's Spain and hot.

If you didn't turn left from the main road opposite the Zodiac, this is what you would find.

Vivaldi Ristorante Italiano slightly further down the road is an authentic and classical pizza and pasta retaurant, but done in a somewhat more imaginative style than your average Es Cana fare. A large outside covered terrace and civilised ambience. The locals even have pizzas hand delivered to their workplace which means either that they're not fussy, or these are the best pizzas in town?

Friends Chinese Restaurant, at the other end of the same block, is predominantly a 'take-away' although there are a few tables inside and on the outside terrace. Reasonably priced.

Mandarin Chinese Restaurant on the opposite side of the road looks like a huge orange pagoda inadvertantly dropped in the centre of the village. Its extravagent design and decor suggest that this is the place to go if you want a Chinese, but don't want to eat it at home, although they too offer a take-away service.

Solimar
A large Spanish bar with one of the best sea views in Es Cana from its front terrace. Serves food throughout the day to suit the prevalent English palate.

La Carretto Siciliano
This is an Italian Pizza restaurant next to Mr Kebab serving the range of Italian food, if you're feeling cosmopolitan. An outside terrace watching life go by is complemented by indoor tables overlooking a rather nice sea view.

Mr Kebab
This is also opposite the 'Bull's Head', next door to 'Donja & Klaus', but holds a special place in the hearts of ex-pats on the island. Finding good solid English fare in Es Cana is less difficult than anywhere else on the island. Finding a good Chinese is not impossible, a good curry is more difficult, but to find a true Turkish designed and built Kebab is impossible - except here!

Donja and Klaus
Opposite the 'Bull's Head' this is very much a German bar offering distinctive German beers and food including 'Wurst' - the inimitable German sausage in its various permutations. Comfy chairs on the outside terrace and an internet facility inside.

Bull's Head
A long established and respected English pub serving traditional English country pub style food, plus daily specials eg. Cajun Chicken with Spicy potato wedges? and a fine traditional Sunday lunch. Doesn't serve food all day (after all that's not the English way?), but when it does - it gets busy, which is normally a sign of good food? Nice covered pavement and side terraces with sea views.

Rockerfellers
Next door to the 'Bulls Head' and again with tables out on the pavement, this time with whicker chairs. Spacious inside and with the bonus of a swimming pool out back.

The Red Lion
Traditional English 'fun' pub open in the evenings from 8 pm. Their 'in-house' DJ plays music from the 50's onwards so that you can sing, dance or do your own thing till the early hours. But please donŤt leave the door open if you arrive after midnight as the noise could upset the locals.

Extremadura
A Spanish bar on the main road through the village, to your left as you head from the beach towards the Hippy Market at Punta Arabi. Predominantly frequented by the local Spanish who play pool here during the winter. The complexion changes throughout the summer as the excellent food takes centre stage. Having lived there (Es Canar), we can confirm that this was the final eating place of choice when 'eating-out' was a financial option. Check it and thank us later?

Moe's Tavern
On the opposite corner to the 'Extremadura', this place is deceptive. At first glance it looks like part of the entrance to the supermarket, but when you enter the long L-shaped bar you find a big covered outside terrace and beyond that a swimming pool with sunbeds. A bit of a tardis really? There's also a garden Bart-B-Q on Thursdays (& that was your clue) and British fare the rest of the week. It's also slightly quirky, being themed on The Simpsons! If you like The Simpsons & you're in Es Cana it's a 'must do'. If you're not in Es Cana and you like The Simpsons, you'll probably make the journey, so it'll be packed again next season. Is there anybody who doesn't like The Simpsons?

Sa Caseta
On the left opposite a little supermarket before you reach Murphy's, this little bar is basically all terrace, but covered with a roof of ivy. So in addition to welcome shade whilst outdoors, you still get a good view of the often perspiring, scantily clad life passing up and down the main street.

Murphys
The Irish pub a few hundred yards further along the main road and on the same side. An outside terrace, with pool tables and table football, betrays the evening carnage that goes on inside. A pub version of the Space night club experience? Inside live bands and DJs entertain a mixture of 'up for it' tourists (who didn't make the big night clubs tonight!) and locals determined to let their hair down after a hard day's work. Some people dance on the floor, the rest on the tables. It's packed, it's fun and you'll remember it in the morning if only for the hangover.

Cafeteria Toni y Pilar - Avda. Punta Arabi 100, Es Cana. Tel: 971 330 457
A Spanish bar opposite Murphy's with tables and comfy whicker chairs outside on the pavement from where you can watch the quieter end of Es Cana life until Murphy's opens late evenings. A good selection of, often stunning young Germans wandering to and from their hotel and the village, plus reasonably priced tapas and snacks. Can get quite busy with stall-holders from the Wednesday Hippy Market next door later on when they re-group for a well-earned 'after work' drink, with occasional impromptu drumming sessions.

OK, so it's a long walk in the hot sun from one end of Es Canar to the other. So the smart money took to the beach and who can fault them - after all this is supposed to be a holiday, not a pub crawl?

So let's continue by assuming that you prefer the beach to the main road?

Restaurante Es Cana is raised above the beach on large terraces with whicker chairs and a large sea view. They appear to be able to cater for large parties and have an enormous kitchen so to do. Quite classy with a comfortable interior and big central barbeque section in the centre of the large side terrace. Not the normal 'cheap and cheerful' you might expect in Es Cana? The snack bar next door, adjacent to the main road, appears to target the grazing, not 'eating out' fraternity. However, because it's the first option as you enter the beach from the village centre this is possibly understandable, particularly considering the presence of it's classy big brother next door.

Cafeteria Tipic is smaller, but offering a fair selection of food options, plus drinks for those sick of the flavour of sand or sea from the adjacent beach.

Bar Es Pins which means 'a lot of pine trees' providing welcome shade from the Summer sun. A predominantly Spanish menu covers the range and is not over the top, taking into account the situation and sea view.

Restaurant Brisamar with two dozen tables on a wooden deck on the sand and a similar number indoors. They offer a more adventurous menu running to almost a hundred dishes in total.


Restaurant Mar Bella which advertises hamburgers, sandwiches, pizza and bear? We assume the latter to be an oblique reference to the range of drinks and cocktails on offer.

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