Vineyards, Seasides And Tapas… In Menorca, Spain

After a busy lazy day in the Ciutadella (and have worked up quite the appetite), we headed over to Café Balear by the harbour, where we would be having dinner.

Now Café Balear is one of the most popular restaurants in Menorca. Apparently, in the height of summer, it’s near impossible to get a table here and the queues are round the block! Thankfully, we visited, well in advance of the start of the season and so had the restaurant mostly to ourselves!

A particularly popular dish here is the lobster soup. I usually prefer lobster on its own (I’ll make exception for a generous smattering of garlic butter) but I was intrigued by this meal.

See, this lobster dish is important to this island! For the longest time, lobster was what poor people on the island ate (chicken was the rich man’s dish in Menorca back then) and because the working class locals could get easier access to lobster, this very quickly became one of the most important dished on the island. Funny how the tables have turned with chicken and lobster, eh?