Not So Famous Ibiza Restaurants

Hands up anyone who likes splashing out a quarter of their salary on a meal? No, me neither. Thanks to to exchange rates and differences in the cost of living in different countries, what is a reasonably priced meal in Ibiza for Fancy London Townies is for me an horrendous proportion of my salary.

It's one reason I've never been to KM5, Bambbuddha Grove and all the other 'eateries' favoured by today's lifestyle magazines. The other reasons are of course the dreadful din of foreground chill out music and the ever present risk of tripping over a scatter cushion!

Any road, style free though this blog might be, it won't do any harm to recommend one of Ibiza's nicest off-the-beaten-track restaurants. Can Lluch on the Santa Eulalia to Cala Llonga road is one of those family run, family patronised dining rooms in the country where they have one set meal per day. Lentils on Tuesday, Sofrit Pages on Wednesday, and Paella on Thursday for example.

We went on a Thursday and experienced a slight delay as we were all waiting for grandad to return from the fields with his moped loaded with fresh ingredients.

The astonishing thing about the place was the 80-odd year old cook who was practically blind and cooked by smell.

The lunch we had was delicious, hearty, wholesome, well-cooked, extremely tasty and lasted well into the evening. As it was about 8 years ago I have my doubts that the lady in the photo is still alive, but you never know in Ibiza.

And finally here's El Ste's outrageous but true law of Ibiza restaurants

"The popularity of any Ibiza restaurant amongst the clubbing fraternity and music press is directly proportional to the price, amount of scatter cushions and chill out music therein. It is also inversely proportional to the quality of food (if any) and service provided there."