Whether for breakfast with views over the sea, for a cool drink at sunset, for a snack after a swim or a romantic candlelight dinner – Mallorca’s coast and beaches offer wonderful beach clubs. Here we present you our favourites:
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Mhares Sea Club
Like a bird’s nest the Mhares Sea Club nestles on the steep coast near Cala Blava where around 40 years ago one of the island’s first beach clubs, the famous Delta, was opened. Although there is not really a beach, there is a path which leads to exciting rocky coves where sandstone used to be quarried and natural swimming pools have formed.
The view from the terrace of the Mhares Sea Club is spectacular at sunset.
The new club was extensively renovated a few years ago and is now very elegant with Balinese sun loungers and wide chairs, a large pool and very good food. Here you could sit forever, chill out and simply look: The views of nothing but the Mediterranean and Palma’s coast in the distance is like from a cruise ship, and it is impossible to get enough of the spectacular sunsets.
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Bar Esperanza
This is the place to meet at Es Trenc in Ses Covetes: The Bar Esperanza is situated not quite, but almost on Mallorca’s most beautiful and untouched natural beach in the south of the island.
There is no beach club right on Es Trenc Beach, but Esperanza Bar is close by and creates a Caribbean feel in the Mediterranean.
The Bar Esperanza is really more of a beach restaurant but has been designed by the owner Clemens Komossa in a very white ‘chill-out’ style with lots of wood, giving the impression of being right on the beach particularly as everything is open. It could be on the Caribbean as a strip of turquoise-blue can still be seen. The versatile cross-over dishes offered with Thai food, cevice, superb salads and crispy potatoe wedges is superb, as is the excellent wine list. Everything here is just right, including the music.
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Il Chiringo
Totally ‘in’, not only for the beach volleyball players on the Platja de na Nadala in Palmanova. Super sea views and excellent pasta, then the two owners are true Italians who also produce fish dishes perfectly prepared. Their cocktails are also highly praised, as is their sangria. Perfect for a candlelight dinner, made even more romantic by the beautiful pink Bougainvillea growing on the whitewashed chiringuito where a DJ provides an accompanying musical background on mild summer evenings. And whilst drinking a morning cafe con leche it is fun to watch the volleyball games.
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Bar Sa Punteta
It would be hard to find anywhere more romantic than this small, hidden rocky cove on the beach of the mountain village Estellenc – the Cala Estellenc. The winding road requires good nerves so that tourists seldom find their way here. Mallorcans are in the majority, but there are never really a lot of visitors. Due to this the menu is mostly real local food – a tasty pa amb oli, simply bread with olive oil and tomatoe, or a Mallorcan summer salad with green peppers, onions, tomatoes and cucumber, called trempo. From time to time there is also freshly-caught fish. Ice-cold spring water flows from a pipe out of the cliff between the beach and the chiringuito, a real experience.
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El Sol
A wild beach with a beach bar just as wild although El Sol, at the end of the long, untouched beach of Son Sierra de Marina, is more a beach restaurant, and legendary with a certain hippy flair, amplified by the cool kitesurfer pitting their skills against the wind and waves on the windy north coast.
The beach restaurant El Sol on the sandy beach Son Serra de Marina in the northeast, has a legendary reputation in Mallorca.
Whether feshly caught fish, a lovingly prepared salad, Asian-inspired dishes or just a good steak – it tastes excellent, the service is attentive, and the lilac-coloured sofas are comfortable. Every Saturday and Tuesday there is live music from around 18:00 – a place which somehow reminds you of Ibiza,
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Puro Beach
The Puro beach clubs are a cult, and Mallorca has two of them: In Palma, on a headland near Can Pastilla and on the Illetes beach. On a circular terrace on the sea, where the Virtual used to be, the new Puro Beach opened last year. The ‘Puro Experience’ is a kind of philosophie – everything is hip, cool and white with an elegant, minimalist and very stylish design and the staff are dressed only in white. The food is inspired by aromas and colours from different countries and is fresh and healthy.The motto is ‘see and be seen’ and illustrious guests enjoy the Puro Beach cocktail creations, or just relax with a wellness-massage on one of the soft Balinese 4-poster beds accompanied by the sound of the sea.
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El Chiringuito Camp de Mar
The beach bar on a little island in front of Camp de Mar is legendary. A long wooden pier on concrete pillars leads across the water to the restaurant Illeta where the food and the service are sometimes in order, and sometimes not so much, but where the fantastic all-round sea views compensate for everything.
The location of the Illeta restaurant in Camp de Mar is just spectacular. Here you do not go because of the kitchen or the service, but only because of the view.
Normally the typical Spanish dishes taste very good and where, after all, can you enjoy a paella or tapas in the middle of the sea, so to speak? Otherwise it is a great place to relax with a drink – protected from the sun under a raffia roof with a coffee or a beer, lean back and all is well.
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Chiringuito Cap Falcó Beach
A long stone staircase leads down to a small, cool beach between Magaluf and Sol de Mallorca, and the beach bar is just as cool with a slight flower-power flair. The small but fine menu offers snacks such as tasty baguettes, hamburgers, fish and grilled kebabs which are very good and are enjoyed sitting with your feet in the sand soaking up the views over the fine yellow sand as far as the azur-blue sea. Enjoying pleasant chill-out or Reggae music accompanied by a glass of cava creates a real holiday feeling, and the ambiente is so enchanting that from time to time weddings are celebrated here.
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Nikki Beach
Nikki Beach means glamour although it is situated in the middle of Magaluf – or on Calvia Beach as the bay is now called. A spectacular location – the large complex, right on the beach, offers a first-class restaurant, a cabana bar, an outside bar and a lifestyle-boutique with selected branded products.
Niki Beach is right on the western end of Magaluf Bay. Especially at the weekend a popular destination for yacht owners who want to party.
Nikki Beach is the ‘place to be’ and has a high luxury factor and those reclining on the extra-wide sun loungers always have plenty to see. Famous DJ’s perform here and the island high-society comes to the popular parties.
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Bar Cala Torta
This bar, situated on one of the last untouched beaches near Arta in the north-east is plain and simple, yellow and blue wooden hut with a few benches and long tables at the water’s edge.. It serves an incomparable selection of fish, the paradilla, without a doubt the best and freshest (not necessarily the cheapest) fish which swam in the sea only a short time before. Accompanied by a simple salad, a few slices of farmer’s bread and Mallorcan olives – heaven on earth! The view over the sea and the snow-white sand, normally not overcrowded, could be in paradise. This is what, for most of us, it would be like living and dining on a lonely Caribbean island.