Get into the heart of Spanish cuisine when you holiday at Club MAC Alcudia this summer. With a choice of three restaurants and buffet-style themed dinners, our all-inclusive family holiday packages ensure that our guests are spoilt for choice at all meals. Take your pick of tapas, montaditos, mains and desserts from our extensive menu. It also includes vegetarian options, and a kid’s corner (think chicken popcorn and lasagne Bolognese) to keep your little ones happy and well-fed.
While classic Spanish cuisine overflows with hearty flavours and a variety of dishes, there are some that we recommend you try on your holiday in the beautiful Majorca islands. You can find these and many more delicious options on the Club MAC menu.
Do you know the difference between a tapa and a montadito? Outside Spain, people use ‘tapas’ for Spanish starters and small plates. These include montaditos, pinxtos, and racíones. If you think tapas are small snacks with drinks, you are correct! At Club MAC, you will have choices such as chorizo in cider, battered squid, and patatas bravas when ordering tapas.
The menu offers an extra dozen montaditos. These snacks are served on a slice of bread. Think open sandwiches served either hot or cold. You have regular options like ham (Serrano!), tomato, and cheese. There’s also salmon and hummus with veggie sticks. For something more exotic, try chistorra (traditional cured sausage). You can also enjoy chorizo criollo, surimi, and egg.
We have many vegetarian dishes on the menu. One is tumbet, a Majorcan dish. It has roasted vegetables like potatoes, aubergines, and bell peppers in layers. This dish is not well known in mainland Spain. A heartier option is pisto. It’s Spain’s version of ratatouille. This healthy vegetable stew includes peppers, onions, tomatoes, and courgettes.
No menu in Spain is complete without the Spanish omelette, considered a national dish by many in the country. While everyone thinks their way of making it is the best – with or without onions, served as a snack or a main dish – the tortilla española made with eggs and potatoes is a must-try from the Club MAC menu.
The same goes for paella, an iconic rice dish originally from Valencia. Contrary to popular perception and modern popularity, the traditional paella is not a seafood dish, but a field dish made with chicken, rabbit, snails and other ingredients like white and green beans, tomatoes, olive oil, and saffron (and rice, of course).Traditionalists insist on proper ingredients for paella. Without them, it can’t be called a paella.
Spanish cuisine, and the Club MAC menu, are equally diverse when it comes to desserts.Try an assortment of cheeses, cakes, and puddings. We recommend the tocinillo de cielo. This tart looks like flan or crème caramel. It uses only egg yolks, sugar, and water. The origin dates back to the 1300s in Jerez. Local nuns used egg whites to clarify wine. They used leftover yolks to prepare tocinillo de cielo.
April is also a great time to stuff yourself with torrijas, Spanish-style French toast with honey and cinnamon, traditionally had during the period of Lent and Easter.
Enjoy authentic Spanish dishes at Club MAC restaurants. Have your fill while staying with us this summer. If you’d rather have something more familiar and less exotic, we also offer a variety of roast meats and stews. You can even have your grilled meats prepared in front of you as you and your family enjoy the spread at Club MAC.
