Bar Abaco is a candlelit cocktail bar set in a 17th-century merchant's house off Carrer de Sant Joan in Palma's La Lonja quarter, where the classics arrive in a baroque room of antiques, fresh flowers and towering pyramids of fruit.
The room is the reason to come. Abaco fills a former courtyard house with rococo mirrors, sculpture, heavy beams and arrangements of fresh fruit and flowers, with opera over the speakers. The Financial Times once called it surely the most remarkable bar in the world.
Order a classic and take your time. The bartenders pour daiquiris, gin fizzes and the standards with care, and the list opens around 17 euros a cocktail, per Tripadvisor reviewers. This is a one-drink room priced for the spectacle, not a long session.
The crowd skews visitors and special occasions, and the bar runs busiest in the early evening before dinner. Regulars on Tripadvisor advise arriving close to opening to take in the room before it fills.
Who would love it: anyone after a once-in-a-trip setting and a properly made classic cocktail. Who should skip it: drinkers chasing a cheap round or a loud late night, since the prices are steep and the mood stays hushed.
Abaco has poured since 1981 and remains the signature stop on any tour of La Lonja. The smart move is one cocktail early, walked slowly through the candlelit rooms.
Bar Abaco appears on our list of the best bars in Palma, and the full Palma bar guide maps the rest of the city. Pair it with Sky Bar at Hostal Cuba or La Rosa Vermutaria nearby.
