Es Coll de sa Batalla (Garage Café)
Food stop · Mallorca
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The Repsol café atop Coll de sa Batalla, a long-time cyclist gathering point and one of two main gateways into the Serra de Tramuntana from Caimari. Famous island-wide for its cakes and pa amb oli, with a shop selling local olive oil and salt, and a garage stocked with tools, pumps and gels for riders.
Cyclists call it simply the Garage Café, and the atmosphere at the tables owes more to who else has stopped than to the scenery: a relaxed, sociable crowd trading the grim game-faces of a hard climb for something friendlier. It serves as a regular halt and drop-off point for organised training camps and club groups working the Inca-Lluc and Pollença-Lluc roads, whether they are headed on toward Coll de Femenia or down to Sa Calobra. Beyond the cakes that make it famous island-wide, the kitchen turns out hearty Mallorcan home cooking, including the traditional fried dish frit, alongside sandwiches and cold drinks. Prices run a little higher than in the island's resort towns, but well under what riders pay at genuine tourist traps like Sa Calobra. Even the pass's own name is disputed, credited alternately to a 17th-century clash between bandits and the law, or to the sound of bells carried up from Lluc monastery below.
What you see
A roadside terrace hung with rows of parked bikes between the pumps and the tables, some of the seating covered, looking out over the wide Es Pla plain below the pass.
Practical
The restaurant is typically closed on Mondays and open roughly 08:00 to 20:00 the rest of the week.
- Cuisine
- mallorcan · sandwich · ice · cream
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Common questions
- Why stop at Es Coll de sa Batalla (Garage Café) on a bike ride?
- The Repsol café atop Coll de sa Batalla, a long-time cyclist gathering point and one of two main gateways into the Serra de Tramuntana from Caimari. Famous island-wide for its cakes and pa amb oli, with a shop selling local olive oil and salt, and a garage stocked with tools, pumps and gels for riders.
- When is Es Coll de sa Batalla (Garage Café) open?
- The restaurant is typically closed on Mondays and open roughly 08:00 to 20:00 the rest of the week.