Santa Eulalia Sea Front Restaurants

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Restaurante Pier 1 Click here for their full page

Pier 1 is a prime example of the type of restaurant that has given Santa Eulalia it's reputation as an up-market, quality tourist destination on the island. All of their food is fresh, which is particularly important for a fish restaurant (John, the boss, has been handling fresh fish since he cut his teeth in the tough market trade of the Manchester Fish Market well over thirty years ago). All of the ingredients, even those of the numerous sauces which remain closely guarded trade secrets, are prepared on the premises under the watchful eyes of the management. Frozen food is not an option here as they believe that it is paramount that quality remains the keyword not only for the promenade, but for the town as a whole.

Mel's English Snack Bar Click here for their full page

Now in it's 14th year and this year dramatically expanded having taken over the premises of the old Nautilus bar next door. This is good news for their regular and loyal clientele who now find that the days of queueing for a table are over - there's even enough room for them to bring their friends along! Their formula of traditional English fare, even down to the Earl Grey tea, remains a hit with families of all ages.

Starting at the far left of the beach by the coastline hopping ferries and coming back:

Sa Punta Restaurant
Under redevelopment at this moment in time, having been closed for some years, but in prime position opposite where the ferries park up.

Over the Top
Is a few yards up a flight of steps from the promenade, but worth the journey. Ana & Guido make the most excellent authentic home-made pizzas available anywhere in the universe. They also offer a take-away service for people who would rather frame these works of art than eat them. (Pretty over the top eh?)

Heading left along the promenade towards the centre of town, you encounter the following:- The first, on the corner with the palm trees from where the first half of Santa Eulalia beach lies before you, is:-

Gelateria Miretti
This is an ice cream bar on a corner that somehow always manages to be the windiest part of Santa Eulalia. This can be a major relief in the heat of high summer, This is the corner where the cormorants sit on the rocks and sun themselves throughout the winter - in fact, whilst the bar is shut for the winter.

Cafeteria Magu
A Spanish run bar open all year round because it is one of the last places by the sea to catch the evening sun as it sets behind the western hills. As you can imagine, this is particularly important in the winter when the sun sets early and it's not so hot anyway.

Delicias de China II
One of the two adjacent Chinese restaurants on the sea front. A tidy little restaurant that wisely relocated from its original premises when the new marina in front became the 'new' seafront. They still offer a seriously reasonable 'menu del dia' - overlooking the beach.

Bahia International
This is the neighbouring Chinese offering a similarly reasonable 'menu del dia' but on a huger scale - you won't be rushed off your table to make way for others as it's huge and has a lovely vine covered terrace at a sufficient distance from the perpetual motorway of promenade traffic, that you could almost be alone with your view of the beach and distant mountains, courtesy of the shrubbery in between.

Cafeteria Sinatras
On the opposite corner to the Bahia, underneath the Cruz apartment block's eastern corner, this restaurant advertises itself as a pizzeria too. Nice garden out front between the cafe and the sea.

Columbus
A Spanish run restaurant with a regular clientele of locals, as they've been established for some time. To have been established for some time and to be appreciated by the locals - they must be doing something right?

Pier 1
Pier 1 is a prime example of the type of restaurant that has given Santa Eulalia it's reputation as an up-market, quality tourist destination on the island. All of their food is fresh, which is particularly important for a fish restaurant (John, the boss, has been handling fresh fish since he cut his teeth in the tough market trade of the Manchester Fish Market well over thirty years ago). All of the ingredients, even those of the numerous sauces which remain closely guarded trade secrets, are prepared on the premises under the watchful eyes of he and his wife Pauline. Frozen food is not an option here as they believe that it is paramount that quality remains the keyword not only for the promenade, but for the town as a whole.

Es Puet
On the corner at the bottom of the main square on the left. A Spanish run restaurant that finds itself in a perfect lunchtime spot and is busy by virtue of being the first beach observation point that you encounter after the walk down from the main street through the Paseo (town square). A place to collapse in a chair gobsmacked by the view of the beach and the sea. That'll be a lager then?

Owl & Pussycat
The original bar on the seafront and it still effortlessly retains the atmosphere of a museum. A dark interior in which to hide when you get sick of the sun - and you can enjoy the company of the curator, er. barman. There is a sheltered garden at the back with an old table tennis table too.

Atenea
A large slightly posh restaurant/cafe occupying a central position overlooking the main beach of Santa Eulalia. The favoured spot for people watchers as you have to pass there to go almost anywhere else along the seafront. People occasionally hold early morning business meetings there on Sundays so that they can be overheard by all the other people reading their Sunday papers.

T. Lautrec
On the next corner is a pleasant Spanish bar with a large beachfront terrace and a wide range of meals and snacks for those pausing on their excursion down the promenade.

Canasuni
A couple of doors up the street to the side of Lautrec is this classy little restaurant which offers a slightly more interesting menu than the majority of its neighbours on the front.

Mel's English Snack Bar
Now in it's 14th year and this year dramatically expanded having taken over the premises of the old Nautilus bar next door. This is good news for their regular and loyal clientele who now find that the days of queueing for a table are over - there's even enough room for them to bring their friends along! Their formula of traditional English fare, even down to the Earl Grey tea, remains a hit with families of all ages.

Restaurant Nautilus

A Spanish restaurant with daily specials offering a Spanish theme. They usually write them on a board outside as does everybody on this stretch of promenade. They probably offer a translation service as well..

Cafeteria Mar y Sol
This is a pizzeria with a shady beach front terrace where you can occasionally find tables full of pretty girls, but they're actually at work - something called holiday ownership the last time w asked. Apparently you get a good view both up and down the promenade?

Balti House
Right by the old water wheel before you reach the fountain. A novel idea and surely long overdue - a curry house on the promenade. The concept is best summarised as "affordable and recognisable", so the menu will feature all of the curries whose names we have all become familiar with. (Surely one of the most positive benefits of the UK's immigration policy over the past four decades?) The chefs hail from Bradford, the English HQ of curry, which has to be a guarantee of quality when you consider the competition in that town?

Front of house is Daksha who was born in Uganda after her parents emigrated there. She was brought up in strict Indian fashion and consequently taught by her mother to prepare over 100 authentic Indian dishes. Little wonder then that she ran the first curry house in Santa Eulalia back in 1986. At the Balti House she also supervised the decor which is best summarised as contemporary, yet Indian. Yes, there are Bollywood posters on the walls, but it's all tastefully done. And, of course, they do a take-away service, which threatens to be extremely popular with the local workforce who finish work late and hungry...

Restaurant Koala
A Spanish restaurant with an extensive menu and a large front terrace overlooking the beach next door to the waterwheel.

Delilahs
At the end of the promenade and away from the beach this place, we think, used to be a mosque. As you can imagine then, it's round & very stylish. Inside is a bar and the open kitchen so you can see exactly what is being prepared. The ceiling and inside is worth a trip in itself, a sort of gold & blue star shaped design with the middle cut away to a gallery of plants. It features one of the wierdest lighting arrangements you could ever imagine. This is a stylish place and a good spot to sit on the large outside terrace for a pasta and watch the world trundle by.

Volare
Spanish run 'British' 'meat and two veg' shop, but cheap as chips.

Gelateria Italiana 'Capo Nord'
'Home-made' ice cream parlour with a large outside terrace, by the fountain which separates the two Santa Eulalia beaches.


Aparthotel Orquidea
Has a large terrace and bar by the swimming pool accessed from the promenade - and a sign outside saying 'welcome', which suggests that it is open to the public? It is a large holiday apartment block and gets very busy during the peak of summer, so maybe they take down the sign when they're full? If they don't, you'll find entertainment on the terrace most nights throughout the summer.

Restaurant MarSol
Yes, this is quite a popular name for a restaurant in Ibiza. It means 'sea and sun' which may surprise you? This one is beneath the apartment block of the same name, challenging the theory that 'a change is as good as a rest'. There is a large outside terrace looking out to sea and an extensive, reasonably priced menu including a section devoted to Ibicenco speciality dishes. It must have just opened as I'd never noticed it before - Nb. add to growing list called more research required...

Hamburgueseria Ros This small cafeteria serving the large beach in front sells hamburgers and ice creams according to the name. It'sl shut at the moment, but has some spectacular photographs on display of plates of beans on toast, egg & chips and almost anything else that you could find in England that's served with chips. As an art gallery in Ibiza it is certainly unique. Unfortunately, there was nobody around with whom we could confirm or deny that this was the intention?

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