Since 2008 there has been the Pitiusa Federation of Indigenous Breeds (Fepira), which works to prevent the extinction of livestock of local varieties, as they are part of the cultural and gastronomic heritage of Ibiza and Formentera. It is made up of five breeders' associations dedicated to the Ibizan sheep, goat, chicken, rabbit and pig, which are unique varieties of...
One of the most abundant and unknown foods in Ibiza is carob, the fruit of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), which is a tree belonging to the legume family. Spain is the world's largest producer, with between 60,000 and 80,000 tons per year, and the Balearic archipelago generates 20% of all this production. The landscape of Ibiza is undoubtedly represented...
After a very intense summer, at the Es Torrent restaurant we conclude the 2023 season this Sunday, October 22. A few months will be left in which we have been able to serve our customers with absolute normality, as happened last year, after the difficult years of the pandemic. As always, our kitchen team has prepared thousands of paellas, noodles, ‘bullits...
How time flies! We face the final stretch of the 2023 season and, looking back, we discover that we have been offering seafood recipes for 37 years in this idyllic cove in the south of Ibiza. We opened our doors in the summer of 1986, on what was then a completely isolated and unknown shore, which went unnoticed by tourists and...
The island's gastronomy offers an amalgam of extraordinary products, among which there is one that stands out very much: the red prawn (Aristeus antennatus), which is also very scarce this season. Today we explain the reasons for its extraordinary quality through five features that make it unique. 1 ) Flavour: Its greatest virtue lies in the potency of its flavour, which...
In the past, fishermen prepared the ‘bullit de peix’ with small varieties, with a lot of thorn, which had a worse outlet in the market than large fish, although they were just as tasty. It was a dish that still had little presence in restaurants. Over time, however, its elaboration became popular, using large cut varieties, which make it easier...
Paella, fideuá and ‘bullit de peix’ are probably the most popular and demanded dishes of our menu. They are an icon of island cuisine and we recommend trying them because they carry the tastiest fish of the Ibiza Sea, such as grouper, San Pedro rooster, anglerfish, denton or scorpionfish, among others. Today, however, we propose five dishes that really impact...
Nutrition science has undergone a remarkable evolution in recent decades, to the point that now an in-depth knowledge of food exists as well as it's positive and negative effects on the human organism. This progress has made it possible to determine that fresh fish is one of the healthiest products with the greatest nutritional advantages for men and women. If we...
Formerly the sailors of Ibiza prepared the bullit de peix on board the ship, that way, all the crew could eat. They cooked the stew with specimens of small size, thornier and with less value than the large pieces they captured. Restaurants, however, began to prepare it with cut varieties, easier to eat and with a flavor as intense as...
There is already an official date for the opening of Es Torrent for this 2023 season! It will be in less than a month, on Friday, April 21, and we will do it with the hope of finally facing a summer with great expectations, after recovering normality last season after two summers marked by the pandemic. We hope that in 2023...
