There’s a small tyranny to good holiday dinners: someone has to drive back. That person doesn’t raise a glass, never quite relaxes and keeps an eye on the clock. In Menorca, where the best tables are spread across the whole island, that logistics too often decides where —and how— you dine.
The fix is as simple as it is elegant: an evening with a chauffeur. They take you, wait for you or pick you up at whatever time you say, and the night is entirely yours. This service is operated by Menorca Bus with local drivers, usually in a Mercedes S-Class for those occasions when the detail matters.
The freedom of not driving at night
Dining well in Menorca sometimes means crossing the island: from the south to Fornells for a lobster stew, from Maó to Ciutadella for a table with judgement, from an inland village to a restaurant by the port. With a driver, distance stops being a problem and becomes part of the plan: the journey home, by night and in silence, is almost as pleasant as the dinner.
And, above all, you can both raise a glass. A good island wine, with no one having to give up their drink to take the wheel.
For which occasions
- A special dinner: an anniversary, a celebration, or simply a fine table that deserves the whole evening.
- A food route: wines, seafood or fine dining, with no thought for parking or the way back.
- A night for two, where the journey is part of the experience and not the list of worries.
You might also like
- The arrival and the journeys in the chauffeured Mercedes S-Class.
- The full sense of this way of travelling, in getting around Menorca in style.
- Where to dine in style, in our guide to fine dining in Menorca.
Our take
Quiet luxury is this too: making sure a good dinner doesn’t end in a worry. Leaving the car behind, raising a glass without doing the maths and heading home watching the island by night through the window is, more often than not, the best memory of an evening in Menorca.
