Mediterranean€€casco-antiguoMon-Sat 11:30-22:00; closed Sun
La Malvasia is a red-fronted room on Plaça del Mercat in Palma pouring Ca'n Pico Malvasia alongside Mediterranean plates and a long celiac menu.
Try: Tapas and mini burgers
Order: A glass of the house Malvasia with whatever fish is on the board that day.
Tip: Kitchen runs non-stop from 11:30, so you can eat cheaply outside Spanish meal hours.
Spanish€€casco-antiguoMon-Sat 12:00-16:00, 19:30-23:30; closed Sun
Celler Sa Premsa has poured from wine barrels near Palma's Mercat de l'Olivar since 1958, serving arròs brut, sopes mallorquines and gató almond cake.
Try: Mallorcan celler cooking
Order: Arròs brut, then gató almond cake with almond ice cream.
Tip: The set lunch is the cheapest route into a proper Mallorcan celler meal in central Palma.
Sandwich€€sa-gerreria
Can Trispol builds llonguets, the split Mallorcan roll, in a back street of Sa Gerreria in Palma, with seven or eight fillings and island wine by the glass.
Try: Llonguet sandwiches
Order: A llonguet with sobrassada, the most Mallorcan of the seven or eight fillings.
Tip: A llonguet with island wine by the glass lands under €12. The room is tiny, so call ahead.
Spanish tapas€€casco-antiguoMon-Sat 13:00-16:00, 18:30-00:00; closed Sun
Bar Espanya stacks pintxos along the counter on Carrer de Can Escursac in Palma, with patatas bravas under sobrassada and croquettes filled with bullit.
Try: Pintxos by the piece
Order: Patatas bravas topped with sobrassada, then a bullit croquette.
Tip: Pintxos are priced by the stick, so a filling counter meal lands well under €15 with a beer.
Spanish tapas€€casco-antiguoThu-Sat 10:00-15:30 and 19:00-22:30; Sun-Mon 10:00-15:30; closed Tue-Wed
Bodega La Rambla has poured vermouth and served variats on Via Roma in Palma since 1940, plating the island's combination dish across small portions.
Try: Variat
Order: The variat, Mallorca's combination plate, with the ensaladilla rusa on the side.
Tip: One variat and a vermouth is a full lunch. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday, and it shuts for a summer break in August.
Bakery€casco-antiguoMon-Sat 08:00-20:30; Sun 08:00-20:00
Forn Fondo has baked on Carrer de la Unió in Palma since 1911, now run by the fourth generation of the Llull family behind a Modernista shopfront.
Try: Ensaïmades and coques
Order: A plain ensaïmada, the benchmark against which the filled ones are judged.
Tip: Breakfast here costs about €4 with a coffee, which undercuts every café on the Born.