Bless Ibiza The Site
There are hotels where you sleep, and hotels where you really come alive. BLESS Ibiza The Site indisputably belongs to the latter category, and does so with a conviction that permeates every space and every moment of the day, with a consistency that comes naturally. It was designed by Lázaro Rosa Violán and conceived as a destination in its own right where hospitality, gastronomy, art and the Mediterranean lifestyle share the same breath. This five-star hotel on the sea front at Platja d'en Bossa manages to make time pass in a different way — something precious few other establishments achieve.
Behind the hotel’s own gastronomic offer is the partnership formed by Fran García, executive chef, and Alessio Padrini, sous chef. These two professionals have taken on the responsibility of creating a culinary experience that evolves organically throughout the day and that (in each of the dining spaces they manage) finds its own language without ever losing the thread that connects them: respect for the ingredients, the Mediterranean vibe, and that special way of understanding hospitality that makes eating at BLESS Ibiza The Site into something well out of the ordinary.
The day begins at La Sabina, the space open to the Mediterranean where Fran and Alessio roll out the Blessed Breakfast: newly baked artisan bread, fresh seasonal food. Then there’s the Mundo Huevos franchise that broadly reinterprets the universal classic with speciality coffees, and freshly prepared food in a setting where the morning passes in a leisurely manner, and the sea view does the rest. As the day goes on, La Sabina effortlessly evolves into a Mediterranean all-day dining establishment, where bowls, salads and a light but inspired menu accompany that uniquely Ibizan time that falls between midday and sunset. The social baton then passes to The Palm Club, a Mediterranean oasis with Balinese beds, private tents and tropical vegetation. Here a high quality, zero-kilometre, gastronomic menu can be enjoyed by the swimming pool with the same generosity as the setting itself: paellas, fresh fish, signature snacks and a sushi bar that turns midday into something with more ritual than just lunch, and with an energy that changes along with the light until the space becomes more intimate and absorbing as evening falls.
BLESS Ibiza The Site is not a hotel with restaurants. It is a destination where every moment of the day has its own scenario, its own vibe and its own raison d’être
In the lobby, The Alchemist treads its own path from early morning speciality coffee and artisan pastries through to the signature cocktails that command the limelight when daylight starts to fade and transforms this meeting point into a more social, dynamic space that functions as a natural bridge between day and night. At sunset, The Cloud 9 awaits at the top of the building with an offer that this season includes the collaboration of Handshake Speakeasy, known internationally as one of the great exemplars of modern cocktail mixing. This makes the rooftop the highest spot on the island — in every sense — where panoramic views over the Mediterranean, music that evolves to the rhythm of the evening, and a gastronomic offer that combines the best Mexican and Ibizan flavours come together to produce that moment suspended in time that is unique to Ibiza.
Add to all this the constellation of external franchises that complete the gastronomic universe of BLESS Ibiza The Site and which, by themselves would place the hotel on the map of any lover of fine dining. These include Leña, which Grupo Dani García has brought to the island this season to take the grill experience to another level, and which co-exists with TATEL Ibiza — whose reinterpretation of the most authentic Spanish cuisine (accompanied by a programme of live entertainment) has transformed every night into an experience that goes way beyond merely dinner. Then there’s Coya Ibiza and its vibrant Peruvian cuisine enriched with the flavours of the entire continent of Latin America, and Sublimotion, the most extraordinary gastronomic experience that the island has produced since Paco Roncero and Eduardo González first opened this capsule for twelve guests in 2014, and which more than a decade later is still what it always promised to be.
Fran García and Alessio Padrini set the pace with a menu that evolves from day to day, and with a commitment that meets the demands of the setting in which they work — while the outstanding external franchises around them confirm that in Platja d'en Bossa, Palladium Hotel Group has built something that Ibiza has needed for a long time (and which now, it finally has): The Site Ibiza, a complete gastronomic destination: with consistent quality and with sufficient drive to change the way in which this island sees itself.
