Where Palma shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Palma shops, snacks and lunches.
Mercat de l'Olivar is Palma's main covered market off Plaça d'Espanya, with fish, meat and produce below and a gastronomic floor of bars above.
Go for: Fresh fish, Market tapas, Sobrassada
Tip: The gastronomic floor upstairs runs bars, restaurants and ready meals until 16:00, after the fish counters have wound down.
Mercat de Santa Catalina is Palma's best-known food market, a hall in the old fishing district where produce stalls sit beside wine and tapas counters.
Go for: Tapas and wine, Fresh fish, Cheese
Tip: Go before 11:00 for the market proper. From noon it turns into a wine-and-tapas crowd.
Mercat de Pere Garau is Palma's working neighbourhood market, an indoor hall with outdoor stalls three days a week and live seafood tanks inside.
Go for: Live seafood, Latin American produce, Cheap lunch
Tip: Outdoor stalls run Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Saturday is the biggest of the three.
Mercat de Llevant is a small municipal market on Carrer de Manuel Azaña in Palma, serving the eastern neighbourhoods with produce, butchers and bakers.
Go for: Produce, Butchers, Bread
Tip: A local market with no tourist trade at all. Mornings only, and it shuts at 14:30.
The Mercat Agroecològic sets up on Plaça del Bisbe Berenguer de Palou in Palma twice a week, selling certified organic produce from island growers.
Go for: Organic produce, Island growers, Seasonal fruit
Tip: Tuesday and Saturday mornings only. This is where Palma's organic growers sell direct.