Your gourmet type
☼ The Sun Seeker
Barefoot, a whole grilled fish, the sun going down.
Your best meals have sand nearby: a fisherman’s cove in Ibiza, paella on a rock below Deià, oysters in the Sylt dunes, sardines on canes over embers in Málaga. Lunch runs until five, the wine is cold and pink, and the restaurant’s design is the view.
Your evening: A four-hour lunch by the water, a swim, and dinner on a terrace where the sea is louder than the music.
Signature dish
Paella de mariscoYour tables
Five restaurants for this type.
Seafood restaurantIconIbiza · Porroig
Es Torrent
Fish on a stony cove
View restaurantViewMallorca · Deià
Sa Foradada
Paella on the rock below Deià
Seafood restaurantStarredMonaco · Monte-Carlo Beach
Elsa
Organic, starred, at the water’s edge
HotspotIconSylt · Rantum
Sansibar
The myth in the dunes
Seafood restaurantViewMálaga · Pedregalejo
El Balneario Baños del Carmen
A 1918 bathhouse on the sea
The other types
How the others eat.
✦ The Purist
Twenty courses, one counter, no phone.
♛ The Hedonist
Truffles, a big cut of beef, and the bottle nobody else dared to order.
✧ The Explorer
The new place nobody can pronounce yet.
❖ The Classicist
The dish the room has served for a hundred years.
✶ The Socialite
The table everyone wants, at the hour everyone arrives.