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Mallorca
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- Price Range:
-
$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Dressy
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
13 reviews for Mallorca
I went on a Sunday night, it wasn't that busy. The level of service we received was attentive but not overbearing. Started with calamari--lightly fried and served with a spicy sauce--delicious and made it really stand out from typical calamari you find at other restaurants.
Mallorca's knows how to do seafood right. The Chilean sea bass special was cooked perfectly. My only complaint was the paella, for the most part delicious (filled with seafood, well seasoned) but not traditional as i was expecting (no crispy toasted bottom) which was a little disappointing. The portions are huge, btw.
For dessert, I got tiramisu and a cannoli to go since we were going to see a movie and snuck it in. Packed it well and they were a great end to an evening.
This is my favorite restaurant. I love the service and the ambiance. Even just hanging at the bar for the BEST EVER sangria you feel like a princess. I love the shrimp in white wine sauce or garlic sauce, their paella is great and so is the shell fish casserole in either the light tomato sauce or the garlic sauce is also excellent if you're looking for a variety of options (mussels, scallops, shrimp, 1/2 lobster, etc.). The meal comes with saffron rice, hand-made chips and steamed veggies. At the end of the meal you get a shot of amaretto.
Mallorca is - an experience. If you're looking for a quiet, romantic spot where you and your date can enjoy your meal in peace, this is not the place. If you're looking for a restaurant where the sangria flows like water, the food is wonderful (and massive servings), your server is a part of your dining experience with you - whether they are singing in their native language or taking after dinner liquer shots with you table side - this is the place that makes you feel for a moment that you're oceans away from Cleveland.
Great place to go for celebrations of any sort - promises to be an evening you won't forget!
When I was a poor volunteer living in Cleveland, our house normally had a budget surplus. I won't go into the arcana of Jesuit Volunteer Corps finances, both because it's pretty boring and because I don't remember the actual numbers--although I was the finance person for a few months--but mainly because our landlord was a saint, we paid very little rent. Eventually, we would be forced to share our surplus with the Chicago house, which was bleeding money because they had lost a volunteer and because their apartment was way too pricey for a set of JVs. (It was a really nice place, though, and I liked going there for parties, so I guess I didn't resent helping pay their rent as much as I let on to my roommates.)
Anyway, while we still had the surplus and with the knowledge that we would have to give some of it up, we decided as a community to splurge and drop like $200 or more (for the seven of us) at Mallorca. I don't remember who chose the place or why I was so down for seafood, but it was a nice restaurant. I didn't like the fact that I had to dress up or that there was basically nothing vegetarian (these were the days when I was a special-occasions pescetarian), but the paella was good, and the atmosphere was pretty classy, although very cold.
I think the service was good, but I just felt uncomfortable here. It probably had a lot to do with how I was feeling about myself and my place in the world at the time, but it was an overall strange night. I can't say I really enjoyed myself, although it was nice seeing my roommates enjoying themselves.
The food was good, don't get me wrong, but the best part of the experience by far was our waiter. We went for lunch and he delivered the list of specials with an extra large serving of gusto. I don't think I would have liked this place quite as much if the waiter hadn't been such a character.
The paella was very good, as was the Tilapia (lunch special), but the portions felt more like dinner portions. They could stand to scale back a bit -- who wants fish in a doggie bag, anyway?
The oddest thing for me was that we were served a basket a potato chips with our meal. Maybe I have the wrong impression about Spanish cuisine, but I didn't think potato chips factored into the equation.
Overall -- good food, fantastic service, slightly pricey, pretty tired decor, and huge portions.
Know what to expect, and you'll be less likely to be disappointed.
Mallorca is a Spanish restaurant, not Mexican nor Italian. It's home-style, not high-restaurant style. Expect the flavours to be more homey, and the preparation less visually stunning, and you'll know a bit about what to expect.
Despite the choice in food styles, the presentation is interesting. The servers wear tuxedos, but the decor is country estate. It's formal, but not regal nor opulant. It's like eating at the home of an uncle that wealthy back in the day, built a brilliant home, but it's a bit in disrepair.
The fabrics are nice, but a tad worn.
The food is tasty, however... and in home style portions:
We ordered a seafood paella, sauteed chorizo, calamari, lobster bisque, a beef roast and I had a glass of sangria. It's all tasty and served in a gracious fashion. We had a wonderful gentleman from Andalucia. It brought the strains of the tune in my head- -- splendid accompaniment to a flavourful comfortable meal.
BEST SERVICE EVER!
The fun in going to this place is having the extravagent servers prance and dote all over you...
My boyfriend was even thoroughly impressed by our Spanish server "Enrique"
I thought the food was fantastic, it felt very European to me.
I loved the twin lobster tails
My boyfriend loved his salmon
The stuffed shrimp were also very good
Dessert was amazing
After dinner almond liquor shots were provided complimentary at the end of the meal (but I'm allergic...booo)
So yes, go here. It's pricey. But I think its super fun and awesome.
The food was very good. I had an appetizer which I unfortunately do not remember as, if I recall correctly, it was a daily special. For my meal, I had the prawns wrapped with bacon. Delicious. The prawns were huge, the bacon had a delicious flavor and the brandy sauce complimented the dish perfectly. I also ordered a Sangria, which was quite tasty, although it was a bit heavy on the ice, which left the final sips tasting quite watered down.
Now as far as service: many of the other reviews mention the elegant feel that the waiters, dressed in tuxes) bring to the restaurant. It's true and this is definitely somewhere I'd enjoy having a romantic meal. Unfortunately, based on Yelp's information, we made the mistake of going in jeans and t-shirts and were completely out of place. So much so that we almost left; Nicely, they said we should stay, yet our waiter seemed a bit snobbish as a result. Other tables were *noticeably* being waited on more often, they never offered us a drink or dessert menu and were quite slow to bring the check.
I'd still go back, but based on how good the food was, this could have been easily a 4 star. With Yelp, though, the way you treat the less then ideal customers matters, so I'm sticking with A-OK for now.
This place is so over the top. It's the furthest thing from fine dining, which makes its prices hard to swallow.
I wouldn't have gone there except I got a gift certificate. Even so, my gift certificate wouldn't have made a dent in the cost of dinner, so I opted to pop in one Saturday for lunch.
The service is ridiculous. Waiters all dressed up in black-tie garb and they overemphasize probably-affected accents and speak at insane bellowing volumes. With the tables as close together as they are, it just made me feel like everyone in the room had to be involved in my ordering process. And there are all sorts of unnecessary flourishes in taking orders and presenting the food. Now, I'm not saying the servers weren't nice. They were. And it's probably not their fault that they're all costumed and eccentric; I suspect that's part of the gig. But it doesn't come off like a fine dining establishment. It seemed like a farce.
Likewise, the food is ridiculous. The one thing I can say about the high prices is that at least you get your money's worth in quantity. I mean, the amount of food served to one person bordered on obscene. I had the gazpacho, which was salty but otherwise bland. Then I went with paella, as it seemed to be the house specialty. Goodlawd what a mountain of food! And that doesn't count the entire plate of veggies that come with it (green beans, broccoli, cauliflower) and the plate of potato chips ("spanish style fried potatoes" my a**) and the plate of plain white bread with butter in little plastic packets with foil peel-off lids. Nothing served had spices or flavor, just S&P and oil. Way too much salt in everything, I was chugging water for the next 24 hours. Then, uninterested in all the generic desserts offered, I opted for some kind of sorbet, maybe grapefruit. When the waiter returned, he informed me they only had coconut (of all the sorbet flavors he had offered me). I insisted that I didn't want it, because I don't like coconut, but again, I'm not really sure the entire room full of patrons needed to be privy to that conversation.
In the end, I took the majority of the paella and the veggies home. I wasn't about to eat them, but it seemed wasteful to throw them out, so I pawned them off on someone with a lesser palate. The server was quite gracious in sending me home with lots of broccoli and cauliflower, which he noticed I had eaten all of, and just left the green beans. Unnecessary, but kind.
I feel really bad hating, because the service was awfully well-intentioned. But the whole experience was just way too in your face and low-quality. I truly don't know who considers this place worth patronizing.
This place earns a solid Five Stars from me, but with a qualifier: this review is based upon a single visit back in June of 2002 (a little more than six years ago as of this writing). Perhaps they have gone downhill since then; I don't know. But everything was so fabulous when I was there that I sought this place out on Yelp to give it this Five-Star review.
FOOD: Amazingly good. Unlike most fancy-schmancy restaurants, the portions were HUMONGOUS!!! And it was muy, muy delicioso. I had (along with a lot of sides that the table shared) this dish with four chicken breast in mouth-wateringly good gravy/sauce, and I was full before I even finished the second one -- but continued to eat the entire thing and make a piggy of myself because this was SOOOO GOOD.
So there I am, it's after dinner, and I'm stuffed...
...and I order dessert.
Because I was not yet ready for my dining experience at Mallorca's to conclude.
I got this lemon sorbet, and they served it inside of this gigantic frozen lemon. How cool is that (pun unintended)???
Needless to say, it was VERY delicious. I ate all of that as well, despite being full, because it was so, so good.
SERVICE: Best service I have ever had.
Do you read me? BEST service I have EVER had from restaurant employees. By far.
We didn't just have a single waiter. We had a team of tuxedoed servants who were at our beck and call. They stood off to the corner quietly, eying us (but not in a way so as to make us uncomfortable).
Every time my water glass got close to becoming only 3/4 full, one of them discreetly swooped in and refilled it to the top.
They were tremendously kind, supremely courteous, as attentive as humanly possible without being *too* attentive, and overall awesome.
AMBIENCE: Nice. Not amazing, but nice.
Only drawback: the room we were in was next door to the bar area, which was kind of noisy.
But not too noisy.
Again, this place rocked to go to. If ever I am in Cleveland again for at least one night, I plan to make a point to dine at this restaurant.
Five enthusiastic Stars.
Really more like a 3.5, but here are my impressions:
PLUSSES:
extensive, reasonably priced wine list
great atmosphere
attentive servers
unhurried but food all come out together as it should for our party of 10
lots of fresh fish specials
healthy portion sizes
fresh tasty bread and butter (chilled as I like)
good appetizers - we enjoyed the calamari, HUGE scallops wrapped in bacon, and sauteed rock shrimp
convenient location near stadium and other downtown sights
parking right across street
NEGATIVES:
No one in our party was "wowwed" by their entree choices; as others have said flavors were somewhat bland
Desserts- again good selection but little drawing on the Spanish cuisine; tiramisu was respectable
Lots of specials, but waiter not well served in the various preparations of such exotic things as baby goat and ostrich,
Prices fair but all entrees $20+
Enjoyed my experience overall and would certainly give it another try, venturing out to different menu choices
Maybe it was just what I ordered. But I expected a little more spice, or flavor, or something from this a Spanish restaurant. Or maybe something similar to what I had when I was actually in Spain. But not here. Food was a little bland and tasted like something my mom might make (meat/potatoes/veggies with little more than salt/pepper to season).
The atmosphere is nice, and it seems like an upscale restaurant but really missing that *something* to make it worth a second trip.
Spanish and Portuguese. This place is great. The staff is always very formal and cordial. This place can be cramped at times. However, the food is great. I enjoy seafood so I am pleased to find an assortment of fish. I went with four people and we all enjoyed our food. The food was fresh and tasty. The portions were ample and not intimidating. Living in NYC, I found the bill cheap.
If you are in Cleveland and in the mood for Iberian food, check this out.
