Passion is aptly named. Lana is in charge and is passionate about the whole experience – menu, ingredients, presentation, balance and service. The food menu, split between breakfast and lunch and segued by all-day sandwiches, is enormous but very well thought out creating a great balance between the dream and the achievable, for example, fruit salads made to order but only in limited dishes. The juice menu is equally as long and carefully thought out with normal juices moving into wacky ones with all sorts of funky ingredients and booster add-ons available.
We started with juices. Jungle juice looks dark and mean but is delicious and has only the tiniest hint that there something outlandishly good for you in it. This outlandishly good thing is Acai – a powerful Brazilian super food antioxidant that tastes so awful in its natural state it has to be pulped and added only in small doses. Now that has to be good for you.
Under the heading Heavenly (as you will see titles and headings play an important part in the menu) there are three yoghurt ‘thickie’ choices. We had the Mango and Raspberry and heavenly is what it was. And big. One of these juices or thickies will keep you going until lunch time so if you have an eye on your belly (or your wallet) you would do well to come here.
We were here for breakfast and the breakfast section of the menu has 18 (yep, count ‘em!) choices on it from Full English Breakfast (called Devoted) through to the Miami Breakfast (called Sensational) with American pancakes, fruit salad and maple syrup to weirder concoctions conjuring up images of Dr Seuss like Green Eggs and Bacon (called Bold) which is scrambled eggs with pesto and shaved parmesan. The toast that accompanies it is French style rustic and heavily buttered. It is proper bread, none of this par baked crap we have come to accept here in Spain. Good stuff.
The Posh Breakfast (called Impeccable) was scrambled egg and smoked salmon with more of this excellent toast. My only criticism of this would be that the eggs were a little on the wet side.
Without wanting to sound too gay (but failing), the pancakes that came with the Miami were like fluffy clouds just plucked from the sky and toasted on a griddle. The fruit salad had juuuuuust been made. It featured perfectly ripe pineapple, kiwi, strawberries, blueberries, melon and peach. There was no discolouration, no sitting in its own juices. Just chunks of freshly cut fruit.
I know from experience that Playa D’en Bossa can be a tough nut to crack and Passion has done it and done it well. A passion for healthy food that has clearly paid off.
Date we ate: September 22, 2009
Our meal came to 36.70€ for two big breakfasts, two juices, one special tea and one amazing ILLY coffee