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Malvasia, Palma de Mallorca
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C/ Joan Bauzá 43 bajos
07007 Palma, Majorca
Balearic Islands, Spain  
 
Cuisine
• Menorcan
• Market
• Mediterranean
• Mallorcan 
 
Description
Malvasia restaurant has been open since the 18th of February 2005 and it has become a huge success with local Palma residents. A jewel hidden away in the backstreets, its popularity is largely attributable to the legacy left by its fouding personality - the chef Joan Olives i Mercadal - a man with a lifelong passion for fine food and excellent wines.

The deceased Joan Olives left his magnificent recipes as an inheritance to the team at Malvasia and they now continue to reproduce his legendary dishes upholding the same spirit he began the restaurant with. Malvasia is unconventional in that there is no 'a la carte' menu. A member of the team comes to the table and explains (in Spanish) what has been prepared from the choiciest seasonal ingredients available that day. Apart from the restaurant, there is also an impressive wine shop boasting some 3,200 different wines, all in a temperature controlled environment of 14 degrees celsius. 
 
Specialty
Fresh seasonal market cuisine. Menorcan and Mallorcan cuisine. Signature dishes using recipes by chef Joan Olives. Malvasia has no 'a la carte' menu. Every day the dishes are presented at your table by the team. All dishes are prepared from the choiciest seasonal ingredients available that day.

Specialities - Rice dishes (only available at lunchtimes), fresh fish, meat stews, Traditional Menorcan and Mallorcan cuisine.  

Samples from the menu 
Starters - Picornells with butifarrón sausage; Panfried artichokes with pine nuts; Wild mushrooms; Eggs and Foie

Main Courses - Haricot beans with white butifarrón sausage and white sobrassada sausage from Alaior in Menorca; Loin of tuna with romesco sauce; Calamares with virgin olive oil; Confit of Roast lamb; Oxtail with red wine sauce; Fish in Coca pastry
 
Desserts - Menorcan Almond cake; Biscuit glacé with a reduction of palo túnel liquer; Pomada sorbet made with Xoriguer gin
  
Wine list
Malvasia boasts an impressive cellar with more than 3,200 different wines, sparkling wines, champagnes, liqueurs and brandies from all over the world. Even the most demanding conoisseurs of wine will probably find what they want here