OUR WINTER SPECIAL
TWO NIGHTS - ONE GOURMET DINNER OR LUNCH FOR TWO
New this Winter Season – Enjoy a 2-nights hideaway stay in one of our hotel rooms and suites, 2 breakfasts in the morning sun, a 4-course Ahora Y Aqui gourmet tasting menu for two, and a bottle of Ibizkus Rosé or Cava.
You can also check room availabilities in general on our online hotel reservation system before contacting us with your specific dates.
The culinary journey through Ahora Y Aqui, that you will get to enjoy during your hideaway stay, is a unique tribute to the unique history of the Balearic Islands, with a variety of colourful and flavourful oriental and African influences. It is a celebration of the Balearics and the world at the same time. It’s inspired by everything and everywhere, but it’s not bound to anything except respect for the elements. Our menu reflects, admires, and communicates this essence and purity of nature.
Combining the highest quality and freshness of ingredients with the magic of spices, the menu will take you on a unique journey for the senses.
EXCLUSIVE WINTER SPECIAL
The Winter Special is available from beginning of November until the end of March. For the gourmet tasting menu, you can chose dinner on Friday or Saturday, or lunch on Saturday or Sunday. You can easily check room availability for the desired two nights stay on our hotel reservation system before sending us a booking request.
Don’t miss this limited exclusive hideaway experience.
Insights from a real mastermind
Interview with Vivek Singh
WHAT’S THE SECRET OF SPICES?
The secret of spices lies in their ability to elevate senses like little else. Through taste, smell, texture (touch) and colour, spices create magic. Whether used on their own or in combination with other spices, they create layer upon layer of flavours, lifting the simplest of ingredients to dizzying heights of enjoyment.
Akin to creating music in an orchestra, spices are the performers in a kitchen, helping, supporting, responding at the command of the conductor. Contrary to popular belief, they are always there to support, to improve, to enhance any ingredient, never to overpower or take over.
Whilst the debate goes on about whether we have 5 senses, or 7, or indeed 22, spices go about their role in enhancing ingredients, their lives, as well as contributing to our health via their medicinal and preservative qualities.
EARTH, WIND, FIRE, AND WATER. SHOULD FLAVOUR NOT BE THE FIFTH ELEMENT?
Earth, air, fire, water, and space.The debate continues whether flavour should be an element too, or should flavour and time be the 5th and 6th elements.
Well, it’s clear to us that cooking isn’t possible in the absence of any of these elements, so we need all of them. But the question is why cook at all? And if the answer is to create or recreate an ‘experience’ then both flavour and time become just as relevant.
Cooking and food have the ability to transport people to a place and time, both in the past or in the future. Of the millions of species on our planet, no others ever cook their food, we are the only species to do so. Even more, we are the only species that cooks for others. The power of this connection to the elements, the act of giving to others, the power to create memories of a time and place, the ability to touch the hearts and minds of others through an act (cooking), is what makes these experiences unique.
La Farm will celebrate this connection among the different elements and combine them to create experiences which will be truly memorable. Whether it’s simple vegetables grown locally and roasted on the fire via freshly baked flat breads using local artisanal flour to freshe seafood being treated with the respect it deserves, or even truly interested guests learning to cook at La Farm during their stay, each of these acts will be a truly authentic experience that will connect the elements and elevate the senses.
WHAT DINING TRENDS DO YOU SEE RIGHT NOW?
– Barefoot luxury. Doing less to top quality ingredients. No ostentatious display of OTT wealth
– Conscious, connected, planet-friendly offerings
– Quality local, seasonal produce cooked purely and with respect
– Each meal an occasion, a celebration
– Relaxed, sharing style, fun dining (not fussy fine dining) interactive theatrical feasts
– Increased focus on health, wellbeing, and environmental awareness
– A global approach to flavours, drawing inspiration from everywhere, a bazaar of ideas, a buffet of flavours, borrowing, lending, exchanging, trading yet at the same time celebrating our local heritage and produce
– A range of multi-sensory experiences that combines sound, sight, smell, theatre, and taste
WHY IS LA FARM A PERFECT THEATRE STAGE FOR THE CELEBRATION OF FLAVOURS?
The Balearics have their own unique history of oriental and African influences over the millennia. Layer that with the more recent European interaction. Combine that with the Mediterranean climate and environment. Season liberally with influences we all experience each day in today’s global world. Marinate each of these in the unique combination of elements at La Farm and we have pretty much a perfect recipe for a celebration of flavours.
This unique celebration is both outward facing and inward looking at the same time. It’s both a celebration of the Balearics as well as the world at the same time. It’s inspired by everything and everywhere, yet not tied to anything except its respect for the elements. The La Farm experience is both from nowhere and from everywhere. It is the NOW & HERE of a connected, mindful experience.
