Skate with butter, capers and a touch of briny flavour at Tiberi Restobar

Some places don’t need many tricks: they just get the produce right, nail the cooking point, and serve it with that calm, happy energy that makes you linger over dessert and coffee. Tiberi Restobar, in the heart of Ciutadella, plays that card with honest cooking—halfway between the chef’s grandmother’s recipes (Àngeles Capó) and those of his Argentinian wife—bringing together local roots and a fresh outlook, as if to say: “you come here to eat well and enjoy yourself even more.”

The dish that truly seals the experience—one that stays in your culinary memory—is skate with butter and capers. It arrives with a look that catches your eye at once, but the moment you press your fork in, you’re in the realm of dishes you know you’ll order again: the skate flesh, delicate and succulent, flakes effortlessly and keeps that elegant texture that demands precision. The butter, melted and fragrant, wraps around the fish without hiding it; it doesn’t dominate like a sauce, it’s more like a sheer glaze that makes it shine. And the capers provide the perfect counterpoint: acidity, salt, a pinch of Ciutadella’s tramuntana that lifts the whole thing and almost makes you taste it with your eyes closed.

It’s a dish of balance—one of those that makes you smile because it looks simple, yet it’s thought through down to the millimetre.

Tiberi Restobar, in short, is a fine excuse to head back out in Ciutadella: to snack, to toast, and to rediscover that sometimes the straightforwardness of ancestral dishes, without frills, is exactly what makes your mouth water.

TIBERI RESTOBAR
Address: Carrer Alaior, 22, 07760 Ciutadella de Menorca
Bookings (tel.): +34 971 38 01 54