Gastronomy was, with sports tourism, to be one of the Balearic big themes at the World Travel Market, and so President Armengol and the tourism minister, Biel Barceló, took part in a presentation of Balearic gastronomy to the specialist British media and food distributors. The aims of this were to get Balearic products better known in the UK (with the potential to increase sales in the UK) and to show what the Balearic Islands offer as a destination for gastronomy.
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Balearics promotes gastronomy ... and so does Catalonia
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The quality of restaurants in the Island are with a few exceptions not very good. The good examples like a the 3 star restaurant mentioned, Santi Taura etc are out of reach for most visitors. If you like rustic local food there are some places but they are not aimed for the tourist market and not even in the restaurant guides. If you go to France you can get a gastronomic experience in every street corner in every town or village for normal lunch money. Mallorca produces some quality agricultural products but that is not the same as being able to serve them.
Promoting gastronomy needs to be delivered with efforts to get restaurants in Majorca to offer a online booking option. Turning up to a recommended restaurant in the peak season to be turned away from a full restaurant is disappointing. TripAdvisor is the preferred tool for the visiting tourist on their mobile devices and the online booking button is absent from the majority of listed restaurants in Majorca. In order for Majorca to be the destination of choice it needs to work back from the customer not the other way around