The Culinary Residence — Exclusive Gastronomic Experiences in Pollença, Mallorca
Curated Gastronomic Residencies · Mallorca The Culinary ResidenceA different kind
of experience
Mallorca. A small group of people who care about food, gathered around one table with a host who has something worth sharing.
The days move between the kitchen and the village, the market and the countryside. You cook, you eat, you explore. Meals find their way back to you months later, in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday. The people around the table become, over a few nights, something closer to friends.
The group is small by design. Small enough that a dinner table still feels like a dinner table.
Everything is handled — the transfers, the producers, the wine, the programme. Not in a way that removes all texture from an experience, but in a way that means the only thing you need to think about is being present.
Leaving is the hardest part.
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Dominic Franks
Welcome to The Table
The Land & The Grain
The Farm & The Square
Pollença Sundays
A Slow Goodbye
- 4 nights accommodation · Private room at Son Sant Jordi
- 4 breakfasts · 3 cooking lessons & lunches
- 3 private chef dinners curated by Dominic
- 1 exclusive restaurant dinner
- 1 vineyard visit & wine tasting · 1 goat farm tour & cheese tasting
- 2 local product talks & tastings · 2 aperitivos
- 1 market tour · 1 village history walk
- Wine & refreshments throughout
- Airport transfers · Welcome gift & Dominic's signed book
Son Sant Jordi,
Pollença
Son Sant Jordi is a locally and family-owned collection of 17th-century Mallorcan houses in the heart of Pollença's old town. Courtyards, gardens, a pool, and rooms full of character.
Son Sant Jordi
Arranged around internal courtyards and gardens with a pool, Son Sant Jordi has been welcoming guests for over 20 years. In 2026–2027 it was recognised as a National Geographic Culinary Destination — a fitting home for The Culinary Residence.
The programme space
The Culinary Residence occupies a dedicated space within the property for cooking and kitchen sessions. Meals are served in the manor house or outside by the pool and gardens — long lunches that drift into afternoon, dinners under the stars.
The old town
Step outside Son Sant Jordi and you are immediately in one of the most characterful corners of Mallorca. The Calvari steps a short walk away, a Roman bridge, cobblestone streets lined with galleries and independent shops, and a weekly market that has been running for centuries.
The rooms
Each room is its own quiet world. No two are the same — high ceilings, original stone, and centuries-old Mallorcan character no renovation can fake. Every room is private with an en-suite bathroom, and every one has been considered with the same care and character as the houses they sit in.
Pollença, Mallorca
Pollença sits at the foot of the Tramuntana mountains in the north of the island — beloved by those who know Mallorca well. The mountains rise behind it, some of the most dramatic coastline in the Mediterranean lies minutes away, and Palma is an hour by road. It draws artists, writers and food lovers for good reason. It is the kind of place that gets under your skin.
Curate an Experience
with us
We collaborate with exceptional voices in food — chefs, cookbook authors, food writers, and creators whose audiences trust them — and build a residency around their voice, their cuisine, and their community.
As the culinary host, your role is simple: bring your perspective, lead a handful of sessions, and be present with the people who came because of you. Everything else — the programme, the producers, the logistics, the food, the experience — is handled entirely by us. We design it, curate it, and run it from start to finish.
Your residency does not need to be Mallorcan in focus. We build the programme around you — your cuisine, your creative direction, your point of view. You bring the vision and the audience relationship. We make it extraordinary.
The people behind
the table
The Culinary Residence was born from a genuine obsession with the people who make food worth caring about — and a belief that the best experiences happen around a table, in a place that means something.
We are a small team with deep roots in Mallorca and a shared obsession with the way food brings people together. Between us we bring a chef's training, nearly two decades in experience design and strategy at some of the world's leading agencies, and eight years of living on this island properly — not visiting it. We know its producers, its markets, its rhythms and its people. We move in culinary circles that stretch well beyond the island.
Mallorca has one of Europe's most extraordinary food cultures — world-class olive oil, exceptional local wine, artisan cheesemakers, weekly village markets, and a food scene that draws serious culinary talent from around the world. We built The Culinary Residence to share it properly.
Every retreat is designed from the inside out. The programme, the producers, the suppliers, the logistics, the guest experience — all of it handled by us, with the same rigour we have applied across our careers. We work with a very small number of hosts each year, and we build each experience around them.
What we want, every time, is simple — a table worth sitting at, in a place worth travelling to, with people worth cooking for.
Any questions?
We respond to every enquiry personally, usually within 48 hours.