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Ibiza for The Food Pilgrims: a Friday-to-Monday weekend

White walls, salt flats, and a rock that hums.

Eating is the itinerary. Breakfast where the porters eat, a market tour, the dish the city is known for in the place that does it best, and one serious dinner.

Friday: The old market

  1. Mercat Vell

    The 1873 market hall at the foot of the walls, now ringed with bars; the fruit stalls are gone but the fishmongers' marble is still there.

  2. Can Terra

    Pintxos stacked along the bar and a vermouth on tap, the town's standing supper before the real one; pay by the cocktail sticks you leave.

  3. Ca n'Alfredo

    The island's classic dining room since 1934, guisat de peix and greixonera for pudding; the walls are hung with photographs of who has eaten here.

Saturday: Farm and vine

  1. Mercat de Forada

    The Saturday farmers' market beside the Can Tixedó bar: island goat cheese, sobrassada, honey, and the pink tomatoes that never leave the island.

  2. Sa Cova winery

    A family winery in the island's wine valley, with a walk through the monastrell vines and a tasting of the reds the tavernas pour; book ahead.

  3. Es Xarcu

    Bullit de peix the way the fishermen made it, the fish first and the rice cooked in its broth after; a beach shack with the best version on the island.

Sunday: Farm table and the studio

  1. Santa Gertrudis plaza

    The village the island's cooks live in; Sunday vermouth outside Bar Costa, and the deli counters selling sobrassada and flaó to take home.

  2. Can Caus

    A farm restaurant that raises its own lamb and makes its own cheese, long tables under the carob trees, and the sofrit pagès in a clay pot.

  3. Ibiza Food Studio

    Boris Buono's supper club in a Dalt Vila house, one long table and a menu of what the island gave him that week; book months ahead.

Monday: Market and bakery

  1. Mercat Nou

    The town's working market, where the restaurants shop: the fish counters, the salt by the kilo, and the stall selling the island's small dark figs.

  2. Croissant Show

    The bakery at the foot of the walls since 1986, pastries and a coffee at the tables outside where the market porters take their break.

  3. La Oliva

    Ibicenco tapas at a busy old-town table: croquetas, anchovies and whatever is on the board, with a cold glass of wine. Go at one, before the queue.

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