Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

A Taste of the Trail: Culinary Excellence in Motion

At Gourmet Hiker, we believe the menu should be as inspiring as the mountains. From the first light of dawn to the final glass of the evening, every bite is an invitation to experience Majorca’s rich heritage.

The Morning Ritual

We hand-select accommodations that prioritize a wholesome, authentic start. Expect varied, nutrient-dense breakfasts designed to fuel your ascent while delighting the palate—ensuring you’re energized and ready for the day’s discovery.

Alfresco Lunches & Hidden Gems

On the trail, we literally walk through our menu. Each morning, we visit local markets to curate a fabulous alfresco feast. You’ll enjoy artisanal cheeses, cured meats, seasonal salads, and freshly baked breads, all paired with easy-drinking local wines. On specific days, we swap the picnic blanket for a secluded restaurant where the vista is simply too spectacular to pass up. For an extra boost, we always have premium hiking snacks on hand to keep your momentum high.

Evenings of Conviviality

Our dinners are a curated balance of atmosphere and flavor. We transition between intimate, family-run bistros and prestigious, award-winning establishments. Every menu is intentionally paced to match the day’s physical exertion, ensuring you feel refreshed rather than over-indulged. Naturally, every course is paired with exceptional regional wines that showcase the island’s terroir.

Vineyards & Vibrant Traditions

With over 70 wineries on the island, our passion for viticulture runs deep. We introduce you to the families behind the labels, organizing private cellar visits and tastings of rare grape varieties. Should our journey coincide with a local festival, such as Sóller’s Fira de Tardor, we pause to immerse ourselves in the artisan kiosks and harvest celebrations that define Majorcan life.

This isn’t just a hiking holiday; it’s a rolling banquet through the heart of the Mediterranean.

Breakfasts

We ensure that the accommodation we use provides an excellent, wholesome, varied and authentic breakfast, giving you a pleasurable start to the day, as well as the necessary energy and nutrition to take on the hike ahead.

Lunches

We are often quite literally walking through the menu each day as we pass vineyards, orchards, wheat fields, pastures or fishing villages. We set off each morning to local markets and producers to bring together a fabulous al fresco lunch for our hikers to enjoy. Typically, this will include locally cured meats, fresh cheeses, seasonal salads and fruit, freshly-baked bread and always a sweet treat which will be a speciality of the area. Mallorca is of course an island whose population loves to eat, there are some amazing regional specialities where local communities have held on to their tried and tested recipes and traditional dishes. We will always have a couple of easy-drinking wines to go with lunches. We also carry hiking snacks for the group, so walkers can boost energy levels with nuts, seeds and dried fruits.

On some days we have found a particularly amazing restaurant, where the view and menu are just too good to resist. On these days we’ll take the restaurant option, ensuring the post lunch walking and later dinner remains interesting and fun, but intentionally a little lighter.. 

Dinners

On all our tours we offer a variety of dining experiences, from small characteristic family run restaurants, to on occasion, award-winning establishments with big reputations. We work hard to plan menus which celebrate the best local ingredients and which showcase the traditions of the area where we are hiking. We seek to balance the evenings so that dinners with four or more courses are interspersed with lighter meals, taking into the account the amount of walking completed on a given day. It goes without saying that all courses are matched with excellent regional wines.

Festivals and Tastings

Depending on the itinerary, if there is a local festival taking place where we are staying or hiking, then we will allow time to explore it.

An example is the town of Sóller hosting Fira de Tardor, a celebration of the fall harvest. This celebration captures the spirit of the season with kiosks full of artisan cheeses, seasonal fruits, and of course, wines from Mallorca.

Food and wine pairing

Wine is another of our great loves in life, Mallorca is blessed with an amazing climate and terroir, hence the 70+ wineries (bodegas) which exist on the island. We take huge pleasure in sharing with our guests information about local grape varieties and the stories of families who have produced wines for generations in the areas where we hike. We love to seek out winemakers where we can organise cellar visits and tastings. All of our dinners are matched with carefully chosen regional wines, and often we will throw in an aperitif or digestif if there is something interesting to try.