ZARZALES Restaurant — Restaurant in Pollença

Quality Mallorcan food made with love - a nice change to the usual tourist places.

We went for dinner and made a booking as we'd seen other reviews saying how busy it can get, and glad we did as it really fills up quickly.

The menu is small, but everything sounded delicious so was a tough choice. Being British, we are used to eating lamb but if you're from a place that doesn't usually have that, give it a try!

We had a starter, main and dessert and a few glasses of the house red (absolutely delicious) which came to about €40 per person.

For mains, we had roast suckling pig, the goat and the lamb shoulder. All were absolutely fantastic - meat falling off the bone with light seasoning served with veggies and potato dauphinoise. The lamb and goat were especially stand out - really tender and juicy meat.

Special mention as well to the starter "Frito Mallorquin" which is offal fried with potato - it's absolutely delicious and worth trying, don't let it being offal put you off, there was a lot of liver and kidney in there which was beautiful.

Also a mention to the staff who were all very happy, chatty and smiley and seemed to genuinely enjoy being there and you could feel that friendliness in their service.

Really recommend going here if you want a totally different experience to the seafront places which can be quite noisy and sell expected dishes like burgers, fish...

I booked in advance at this restaurant for our first evening in Puerto Pollenca. Having high expectations based on reviews, we were very disappointed and let down.

There was a flamenco night which occupied all the attention of the staff. It took a while to get their attention to be seated and again to order but when we did, we were told the wait for paella would be an hour to an hour and a half because of the event. This was what two of us wanted so we changed our meal choices.

Well, I wish we hadn't because the main course took just shy of an hour to come out. We were left waiting for a long time whilst other guests came and received their food before we did. The staff seemed oblivious, like we weren't there!

The food came and again, we were disappointed. I changed my order to the lamb chops which came out and were served to the plate from a board. About 5 minutes into my meal, more lamb chops came out for another table, this time, sizzling in flames on the same board. I realised that my food experience was not the same and again, we seemed like an after thought.

The food wasn't bad but it certainly didn't meet the expectations we had. The service really let them down and ruined our first meal out. We received no apology for the wait from any of the staff even after we expressed our...

Came about by chance having spotted up a side street as we walked along the boulevard looking for someone serving something a little different . Wasn’t sure at first as menu limited and I’m someone who doesn’t eat fish and a little fussy on other things but my husband liked different so I thought there was a couple of things I could choose . We asked for inside as mozzies have been a bit of a pest on the trip, we were the only ones inside but we were made welcome and table immediately set for us .

Hubbie had the broad beans start which came in a mini cast iron pot and it was more like a little stew which was delicious and I had a rich extremely tasty tomato soup . Then the main attraction … drum roll please…. Suckling pork and leg of lamb - simply beautifully cooked with subtle flavours that just melted - start of lots of oo’s and ah’s presented well with a veg and a little parcel of Spanish omelette. Unfortunately no room for dessert ( should of passed on the bread )

Service was swift and friendly and they are clearly proud of what they do and loved the local farm to table ethos - you can tell the difference . Good served with love ,...