Beso Beach Ibiza

Summer on the south coast of Ibiza is all about long, languid beach days, dining with your feet-in-the-sand and sundowners overlooking the sea. At Beso Beach Ibiza, the stylish Ibiza beach restaurant on the golden sands of Las Salinas, you can have it all – start the day on a sunlounger, take a table on the terrace for a long lunch and stick around as the sun goes down for cocktails, beats and a buzz like no other.

With panoramic views over the beach and across the sparkling Mediterranean Sea, the setting is postcard perfect, which means the single sunbeds and oversized daybeds fill up fast at Beso Beach Ibiza – it’s first-come, first-served from 11am. The Ibiza beach restaurant’s kitchen opens for lunch from 1pm, and before you know it, the rustic chic terrace is filled with a beautifully Balearic mix of people, from the jet set straight from their yachts to families from all over the world.

Holiday classics like hand-cut chips, margarita pizza, nachos and burgers are served to your sunbed, along with endless jugs of sangria, icy cold rosé and bottles of top-shelf spirits to share. Inside the Ibiza beach restaurant, guests are spoilt for choice – the mouthwatering and extensive Beso Beach Ibiza menu has something to suit all appetites. Start with plates of silky jamón ibérico, team tins of mussels, anchovies and cockles with vermouth, or indulge in the luxe caviar menu, which includes spoonfuls of Osietra and croquetas with red shrimp and caviar.

Cleanse your palate with your favourite vino and move onto cold starters like spinach salad with mint, parmesan, pine nuts and grilled lime; aguachile of red prawns; and Wagyu carpaccio with truffle and parmesan. Hot starters include grilled artichokes with black truffle; scallops straight from the Josper grill; and the house specialty, mussels a la Beso. Next up are the Mediterranean-meets-Basque main courses, featuring traditional rice dishes and delectable grilled meat and fish. It’s hard to resist the classic seafood paella, as tray after tray is carried through the Ibiza beach restaurant, saffron-scented steam trailing in its wake. There’s also creamy lobster rice; vegetarian paella with artichoke flowers; black rice with scallops and alioli, plus another Beso Beach Ibiza classic: red prawn cannelloni.

Meanwhile, the triple-tier grill sizzles and flames in the background, as the Beso Beach Ibiza chefs masterfully grill seabass and turbot, Bilbao-style; 35-day aged chuleton; and the Ibiza beach restaurant’s legendary Formentera-style lobster with fried eggs and crisp chips (upgrade it to be topped with caviar). If you can’t decide, the seafood barbecue features plates piled high with lobster, carabineros, crayfish, prawns, scallops and clams. Just be sure to save a space for dessert, perhaps after an espresso martini (or two).

As the sun begins to dip behind the soft sands and shady pines, the Ibiza beach restaurant’s resident DJs ease into a late-afternoon groove. Cocktails like mojitos, margaritas and negronis appear as if by magic. The barefoot crowd is glowing and golden and the energy at Beso Beach Ibiza hovers in that sweet spot between lunch and the promise of another adventure-filled Ibiza night. As the saying goes, no hay verano sin beso…