Once of the nicer restaurants around town, it has a wide ranging menu and has a good choice of…read moreseafood, meats, and paella. Make sure you make a reservation, otherwise, you will not get seated. If you can get there early enough around 8pm, you'll get a nice seat on the ledge facing the water. The restaurant has a great view of the water and you can see the sunset as you begin your dinner. Also if you look hard, you can see the Ibiza terrain in the horizon. The paella is the best we've had on the island. Nice flavor that is not overwhelming and perfectly done rice. I had the fish of the day and that was very well prepared as well. I'd say that you should know how to pick out the bones though! Not something everyone can do well. I noticed a lot of people ordered the fresh lobster. It's a bit of an upscale place, so I think a lot of people come here as their nice meal for the vacation or to celebrate something. Put this place on your list of restaurants to visit on the island!

People really like this restaurant. Like a lot. I've spoken to a few people who think it's the best…read moreplace here on the island. I don't subscribe to that notion. It is good though. I will say that. My wife and I came in here for a lunch during the season when we both had the day off (can you even believe it?!) because we wanted to see what all the fuss was about. The service was good, as you might expect from a place with a higher price point like this one. They did do one thing that I wasn't a fan of but I'll get to that later. First the food. The standouts: we ordered the octopus here, as I've been know to do at many a restaurant all over the world. Octopus is delicious, so it makes sense. Because it is one of my favorite dishes, I have ordered it in many places and had it prepared many different ways. The grilled octopus here though, was the best octopus I've ever had anywhere. That's not even hyperbole. I honestly couldn't believe how good it was. I think that whenever people order a specific dish at various places, they expect it to taste a certain way and have a certain texture, etc. This was the case for me as well when I ordered this, and the flavor was out of this world, BUT, it was the texture that sold me. The waiter told me that they boil the octopus first and then grill it, so the texture is maybe a bit different from what you expect when you have grilled octopus at a different place. It was perfect. Literally flawless. There was nothing they could have done to this starter to make it better. It is now #1 on my list. The desert we had was also quite good. We ordered it on a whim because I'm not really a dessert guy but it was a good call. Cream, pistachios, what I'm assuming was some sort of graham cracker crust or something similar. It was surprisingly good, especially for someone who isn't a fan of dessert. This leads me to the item that wasn't stand out: the paella. We ordered the paella with lobster (obviously) and like you do whenever you order lobster, the waiter went in the back and brought out a live lobster to show you. This is one of the ridiculous things that they do in all restaurants (and completely unnecessary i might add) but it happens. The joke is, that a place will show you a lobster from their tank, and then when they are making your food they will make it with a lobster they have frozen in the back. I know for a fact that places do this. I'm not going to accuse Es Calo of doing this. What I will say, is the lobster they brought out to show us was definitely NOT the one in the paella. The one they showed us didn't have claws, and our paella lobster did. This is important because the lobsters without claws tend to cost more money. I wasn't ready to stress about it because for me lobster is lobster, but it must be said that they tried to pull the old switcheroo on me. That being said, while the paella was good, it wasn't the best paella I've had on the island, and it was amongst the most expensive. If I go back I probably won't be ordering the paella but that's no big deal. If you're wondering, my wife did actually talk to the waiter about the lobster switch, and he apologized (he wasn't the person who brought out the livelobster, it was someone else) but for me it wasn't a huge deal. This place is good and has things that are fantastic, but I wouldn't call it the best restaurant here.

Mainly tapas, small Spanish dishes. The cafe menus, coffee and desserts are the best here.read more

Fantastic dinner. We had Caesar salad with seafood as a starter, and slow baked lamb shoulder as a…read moremain. Really you can't go wrong, people around us had pasta with lobster, grilled pork, clams, other fish items. Nice desserts too. Lovely informal setting decorated with hanging plants. Friendly competent wait staff too. Many customers smoke but at least it's open air. Find them to the right of the church.

We came here for breakfast. It's just behind the church and set back a little bit so it can be…read moreunassuming. It looks like it has a small outdoor eating area, but in reality, once you walk in, there's another eating area that's covered and in the back! It's nicely decorated and has fresh white tables and also has a cool menu. The service is good and the food is also good as well. The portion sizes are smaller. Maybe it was breakfast. I had an omelette. All of the food that our table ordered was well done. Put this on the place to visit when in the city!

Our hostess and server Gigi was amazing. She made us feel very welcomed. This is a one of the…read morebest restaurants on Ibiza!

Absolutely fantastic. Fresh fish. Beautiful caprese salad. Delicious well priced midday wine…read moreoptions. Attentive, kind and patient waitstaff. Oh my, this place is a dynamite lunch option. We'll be back tomorrow.

I came to Formentera for a little day trip during my stay in Ibiza…read more This little cafe caught my eye because of its location. Right on the water, the views were gorgeous!! The service was excellent. I was seated and served right away and didn't have to wait long before a basket of delicious bread and my delectable lobster pasta arrived. Everything was wonderful! I loved sitting right on the water and looking at the boats and beautiful sights. I had the perfect experience here and would definitely come back!

I always get dinner here at least once when visiting Formentera. The restaurant is beautiful, staff…read moreis friendly, the menu is diverse (plenty of vegetarian options and can make things vegan), and there are tasty mocktails.

Highly recommend this spot. We sat inside and the interiors are beautiful but really what makes it…read morestand out is the food. The croquets, Gorgonzola pasta and carrots were all delicious. For dessert we were recommended the Toblerone cannelloni and they didn't disappoint - crispy pastry with plenty of filling. We were able to get a reservation the same day online, don't miss it when visiting the old town.

A good dining experience in Dalt Vila. Seating is outside on the cobblestoned streets, with all the…read morevisitors hustling and bustling past. They serve Italian food, with a heavy emphasis on wines. We shared some grilled aspparagus, bread/aioli (worth the extra fee, the aioli had a delicious garlic flavor, and you get a side of olives in a spicy oil), sea bass, and a spinach risotto topped with quail and a foie cream sauce. Everything was good. The bread and asparagus were our two faves. They paired nicely with a glass a white wine.

Very good food, very fresh, fast and gentle service, and very low prices compared to other…read morerestaurants in Formentera! Highly recommended, but come early ;-)

This is my favourite restaurant in Formentera. Lovely location, lovely people and amazing food. In…read moremy 2 weeks on the island, I have been there at least 4 times and ordered everytime something different and all of them were excellent. Especially the seafood pasta. It was not only the seafood but how they cooked the pasta was first class.