Sample Menus

Cantina celebrates Menorca’s culinary heritage with menus using locally sourced ingredients to serve bar snacks and tapas alongside a selection of sharing plates of fresh fish and seafood, rice dishes and meat and vegetables cooked over fire.

TAPAS

Marinated Spanish olives with country herbs

Banderillas with anchovy, pickles and quail’s egg (2)

‘Pan con tomate’
(add jamón ibérico or oak smoked cured beef + 5 €)

Hand-carved acorn-fed 48 months jamón ibérico

Crispy flatbread with oak smoked cured beef, Mahón cheese, walnuts and rocket

Coca flatbread with fresh cheese, tomato and pine nuts

Selection of artisan cheeses with fig jam

Special croquettes of the day (5x)

STARTERS AND SALADS

Chilled apricot ‘ajoblanco’ soup

Tomato salad with caperberries, sweet onions and pickled chillies

Grilled peach salad with brossat cheese, tomato, spiced cashews and wild rocket

Artichoke and anchovy salad with sweet pepper, sun-dried tomato and olives

Line-caught fish and red prawn ceviche with grilled corn and avocado

Blue fin tuna carpaccio with olives and sea vegetables

Octopus carpaccio with smoked pepper mayonnaise and pickles

Grilled leeks with mató cheese, toasted hazelnuts and pickled lemon vinaigrette

Steamed Menorcan mussels and clams in a slow roast tomato sauce

RICE

Bolets de Menorca mushroom and artichoke rice (for two)

Cantina seafood and market fish black rice with alioli (for two)

Farmers’ style rice with rabbit, chicken and island herbs (for two)

Menorcan spiny lobster rice with fried quails’ eggs and black garlic alioli

GRILL

Chargrilled seasonal market vegetables with romesco sauce

Port of Mahon catch of the day with capers and lemon m/p

Grilled Mediterranean rock octopus with ‘mojo rojo’ sauce

Corn fed baby chicken marinated in lemon with garlic and island herbs (half/whole)

Menorcan beef rib eye cooked on the bone over coals and wood (1kg+) 

CANTINA SPECIALITIES

Bolets de Menorca mushroom tortilla with black garlic alioli

Deep fried artichokes with a free-range egg and jamón ibérico

Chargrilled line caught squid with smoked peppers, sobrasada and almonds

Menorcan spiny lobster ‘frit’ with free range eggs and fried potatoes

Soupy clay pot rice with Menorcan game and seasonal vegetables

Smoked aubergine with sobrasada and walnuts

VEGETABLES

Skin on double fried potatoes with parsley and garlic

Dressed baby gem lettuce

Chargrilled red peppers with almonds and sherry vinaigrette

Desserts

Apricot tarte tatin with artisan vanilla ice cream

‘Ensaimada’ chocolate sandwich with raspberry ice cream

Fig tart with a soft cheese mousse

Honey, lemon and lavender parfait

Artisan ice cream (2 scoops)