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Ibiza’s cuisine is typically mediterranean and based on seasonal produce. With more than 2,300 bars and restaurants to choose from there is an enormous range of gastronomic choice. There are restaurants to satisfy all palates not just ones serving Spanish food, but also Chinese, Italian, French, British, Japanese, Thai, Indian , Arabic etc, and many different dining options from a beach bar or beach restaurant with superb seaviews from the terraces, town restaurants, the very popular countryside restaurants through to the restaurants in 5 star hotels.
Restaurants generally open for lunch from 1pm – 4 pm and for dinner from about 7.30 pm onwards. Of course in holiday resorts they tend to open earlier and some are open all day. Spanish people do dine very late and is quite normal for them to sit down for dinner at 10pm.
Bars and tapas bars are usually open all day until late at night. Tapas originated in the 18th century when King Carlos III asked for his glass of wine to be covered to stop dust getting in it and the waiter covered it with a small plate of food. That is where the word tapas (small plates of food) comes from as tapa means lid or cover. There are speciality tapas bars in Ibiza town, Santa Eulalia and San Antonio.