McNaughtan - Lonely Planet Mallorca

Eating out in Palma has never been more exciting, with chefs inspired as much by their Mallorcan grandmothers as Mediterranean nouvelle cuisine adding a pinch of creativity and spice to the city's food scene. Inland, restaurants play up hale-and-hearty dishes, such as suckling pig spit-roast, to perfection, pairing them with locally grown wines. On the coast, bistros keep flavours clean, bright and simple, serving the catch of the day with big sea views.

By Damian Harper, Writer

My parents did the right thing and bought a house in Fornalutx when I was four. Every summer spent in Mallorca was blissful: building camps with friends in the torrent, leaping from high rocks into the waters of the Port de Sller, listening to the donkeys clop up the steps of Calle del Monte. Nowadays it's what I took for granted then that transfixes me most: the mesmerising night sky, the Tramuntana glowing like coals at sunset, the timeless terracotta hues of the stone houses and the deep azures of the Mediterranean. And each time I return, there's something else that enthrals me.