Adrián Quetglas

Is Adrián Quetglas worth booking in Palma?

Yes; and book sooner than you think you need to. At a €€€ price point, it delivers a level of technical cooking that most restaurants at this tier in Spain simply do not match. If you are weighing where to spend your one serious dinner in Palma, this belongs at the top of the shortlist.

What to expect

The restaurant sits on Passeig de Mallorca, overlooking the dry bed of the Torrent de Sa Riera canal in the centre of Palma. The room reads as a polished bistro rather than a formal fine-dining box: a vertical garden adds texture to the space, a background of jazz keeps the atmosphere from tipping into stiffness. It is the kind of room that makes a long tasting menu feel natural rather than ceremonial, which matters when you are committing to five or eight courses.

Chef Adrián Quetglas trained across Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Moscow before landing in Mallorca, the cooking reflects all of it. The Mediterranean is the backbone, but the menu moves through influences with enough confidence that it never feels like a geography lesson. The stated ambition is to democratise haute cuisine; that philosophy shows up directly in the pricing, which sits meaningfully below what comparable cooking costs at Marc Fosh or at the island's two-Michelin-star venues.

Two tasting menus are on offer: a 5-course and an 8-course, both available with wine pairing. Supplement options include pigeon, caviar, a cheese course, which gives the format some flexibility if you want to push the experience further. For a food-focused traveller who wants to eat seriously without the formality of a three-star service protocol, this structure works well. Compare it against, say, El Celler de Can Roca in Girona or Arzak in San Sebastián, those demand months of advance planning and significantly higher spend. Adrián Quetglas gets you into a comparable creative conversation at a fraction of the friction.

The brunch and daytime case

For food enthusiasts specifically looking at the daytime or weekend format, Adrián Quetglas is one of the few places in Palma where a mid-afternoon or weekend lunch achieves the same kitchen ambition as a dinner service. The canal-facing position and the jazz-lit bistro interior make a weekend lunch here feel unhurried. The 5-course menu is a natural fit for a long Saturday lunch rather than a commitment you need to save for the evening. If you are planning a day around Palma's old town, perhaps picking up a drink first at Stagier Bar or Bàrbar, anchoring it to a lunch at Adrián Quetglas makes more sense than squeezing it into a packed dinner itinerary. The daytime setting also lets the room's vertical garden and natural light work in its favour in a way that an evening visit does not.

Booking window

This is an easy booking by the standards of serious Spanish restaurants, but that does not mean you should leave it until the week before. The restaurant is usually full, the Palma dining season accelerates sharply from May through September when the island's tourist population swells. Book at least two to three weeks ahead for a weekday dinner, push that to a month for a Saturday lunch or dinner slot during summer. If you are comparing booking difficulty across Palma's better restaurants, Adrián Quetglas is more accessible than Zaranda or DINS Santi Taura at this level, but it is not a walk-in venue. The address is Pg. de Mallorca, 20 in the Centre district.

Practical details

Reservations: Book 2–4 weeks ahead; longer lead time needed in summer. Budget: €€€, a meaningful but accessible spend for Mallorca's tasting-menu tier, with wine pairing available as a supplement and add-on options (pigeon, caviar, cheese course) if you want to extend. Format: 5-course or 8-course tasting menus only; no à la carte. Dress: Smart casual is the safe call, the bistro atmosphere is relaxed, but the culinary ambition warrants dressing up a notch from beachwear. Location: Pg. de Mallorca, 20, Centre, Palma, central and walkable from most of the old town. Phone and website: Not listed; check current reservation platforms for availability.

Worth knowing

Michelin's assessors noted that Adrián Quetglas has one of the leading quality-to-price ratios for its level not just in Spain but globally, a framing that appears in both the 2024 and 2025 Michelin notes. That is a meaningful signal for the food-focused traveller: you are getting cooking at a level that competes with venues costing significantly more. For context on where tasting-menu dining in Spain sits more broadly, destinations like DiverXO in Madrid, Azurmendi in Larrabetzu, Cocina Hermanos Torres in Barcelona, and Aponiente in El Puerto de Santa María all demand higher spend and substantially more planning. Adrián Quetglas occupies a productive middle ground: ambitious cooking, accessible pricing, a room that does not require you to treat dinner as a formal occasion. For the food-focused traveller visiting Palma, this is where to spend your serious meal.

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