Café Del Mar
Café Del Mar is the first place You may see, if You
will come to the coast from the right side. Basically it's a huge building
(with the shop from the other side) with one round bar, DJ table and a terrace,
which contains another round cocktail bar, just few steps lower. Instead of a
proper roof You have white silken clothes, which are moving in the wind,
and allowing this wind to move freely around You, which is great in very hot
sunny day, which You will have on Ibiza for 98%.
Unfortunately the last good thing about this bar is
the music. I guess that it's not even necessary to introduce You this kind of
chill-out music. Their music mixes are well known all around the world.
But if You want to watch the sunset from here, DO NOT
sit on the bar and DO take a beer. As usually, I was sitting on a bar, chatting
with my friend and waiting for the bartender – in our case barmaid. Meanwhile,
there were some people just passing inside the actual round bar, chatting with
the barmaid, taking some stuff and leaving, without even greeting us, or even
noticing that this girl has some guests. Unfortunately we realized, that these
people were waiters, another bartender from the bar on top and even
a DJ, who came for water. Nobody greeted, said anything to us or even
looked at us. It took me some time, before I realized, who were these people,
because they don't have uniforms - they have just some T-Shirts saying
´´Café Del Mar´´ even with different colors from each other. The saddest thing
was, that the same T-Shirt You could buy in the shop from the other side
of this building. Then our Barmaid finally came to us, asking us our
order. Jacek took mojito (their way with some special seasonal herbs) and I
wanted Pina Colada to ´´stay in the rum.´´ But as usually, I asked about
the recipe. First of all, the actual recipe surprised me, and 2nd of all, even
the way in which she replied, was very surprising too…. Cit. : ,,Normally.
It's a classic pina Colada made of :
Malibu, sugar cane, rum, cream and pineapple juice.´´ (With the face expression
like : Why the f*ck are you asking like that?!)
Changing the order for a beer would be as offensive as
her answer, so I decided to stay in Pina Colada, still quite shocked. Then she
made mojito, and just after that she started to prepare my cocktail. She took
blender and added big shot of rum, small shot of malibu, 2 table
spoons (!!!) of a sugar cane, the whipped cream in the can spray,
which You can buy in a supermarket for making the ´´desserts´´ (!!!) and
finished that with pineapple juice.
Blended, white, super sticky mix she garnished
with a spoon of dried coconut and gave it to me. I guess, that You know
very well my opinion for this white thing in my glass, already. Politely said : if it would be as good
as it wasn't, it would be amazing.
Just to ensure myself for this rating, I asked Jacek
if he likes his Mojito. He said, that the weird taste of the herbs and
a ridiculous amount of sugar makes it even more sweet, than the sunset.
It took us - of course - some time, before we finished our drinks and meanwhile we could withness some preparations of the other cocktails:
Cuba Libre was missing the lime, but Bloody
Marry was with that lime served. Obviously, that girl behind the bar did
not ´´rolled´´ that Bloody Mary, but she ´´moved´´ the boston shaker like five
times back and forward in such speed, that I could shave myself 2x in
between one move...
As I was – absolutely concerned – watching the work of
this Barmaid, Jacek finished his mojito and we decided to get out of this
place. So I tried to put my ´´Pina Colada´´ back on the bar, very, very, very
carefully to not to spill it, because if You would spill THIS MIX, You
would have to put a warning label in front of it : ´´Beware, road
reconstruction ahead!´´
Then we decided to get back to Ibiza town. On the way back I bought some coke, just
to some something less sweet, than that Pina Colada.
I believe that Café
Del Mar is a great place to relax with good music. Just to chill out.
Switch off. The music is amazing, the chairs and sofas are very comfortable and
the view is stunning. (I would enjoy it even more, if I would be there with
some beautiful girl, but EVEN with Jacek it was good enough) . But here is
my advice: Even if You like cocktails, especially if You like it as much as I
do – take a beer. Corona. In the bottle.
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