Wyld Berry

Wyld Berry is a small café and restaurant in El Toro where healthy cooking is not a label but the working premise. Iván and Iveta founded the house, and you can read their signature in the way ingredients are talked about here: origin, nutritional value and what the growing of them means for the planet come at the start of the thinking, not at its end. The place sits on Carrer Gran Via, a few minutes from the Port Adriano marina, and works more like a neighbourhood meeting point than a restaurant with grand gestures. You cannot book a table: the house deliberately takes no reservations, so you simply turn up and sit down. Nothing is cooked until the order is in — when it is busy that takes longer, and it is meant to work that way. What Wyld Berry puts on the menu The morning belongs to the toasts on sourdough, with seeded wholemeal or a gluten-free loaf as alternatives. They come with avocado, with goat cheese, with poached or scrambled organic eggs; the Champion's toast pairs avocado and egg, the Veggie toast brings together hummus, avocado, mushrooms, pesto and confit garlic oil. The Brioche Wyld breaks the pattern: a homemade potato brioche bun with marinated chicken thigh, coleslaw, feta and the kitchen's own mayonnaise. At midday the card turns heartier. The salads arrive either with marinated chicken, feta, olives, tomato, spinach, chickpeas and avocado, or in the falafel version with roasted sweet potato, red cabbage, cucumber, spinach, hummus and homemade tzatziki. A salad of the month and a dish of the week rotate alongside them. The frabs are Wyld Berry's own invention — Lebanese bread instead of a wrap, filled with chicken and pesto, with chicken and yoghurt sauce, with falafel or with grilled halloumi. If you want something substantial, there is the beef burger with entrecôte, Mahón cheese and roasted sweet potatoes; if you want it light, the Longevity bowl of wild rice, sweet potato, avocado, egg, spinach and feta. Juices, smoothies and coffee The detox juices carry names like Mellow Yellow with turmeric, pineapple, apple and black pepper, Spiced Immunity with orange, carrot, ginger and cayenne, or Feel Green with cucumber, spinach, lemon, celery and apple. The smoothies run from Forever Young with raspberries, pineapple, ginger and chia to Sweet Heart with strawberries, beetroot, dates, banana, peanut butter and oat milk. Alongside them stand ginger and lemon shots, an apple cider vinegar shot called Fire Cider, and a lemonade of ginger and lemon. The coffee is specialty coffee, and anyone who would rather not have cow's milk can have almond, oat or coconut. Chai latte, turmeric latte, matcha latte and a latte made with mushroom and chocolate round out the list. Sweets without gluten or dairy The homemade sweets are what the house itself sets most store by. The fridge holds vegan and gluten-free bars and cups: energy balls, a choco-nut cup, a vegan muesli bar, a vegan caramel slice. On the counter sit a croissant, banana bread, a cinnamon roll and the cake of the day. The Wyld bowls come with homemade granola, berries and fruit — as a yoghurt bowl, as an açaí bowl with banana, avocado, rice milk, coconut and granola, or as the Wyld Strawberry with strawberries, beetroot, dates and peanut butter. The baking leaves the building too: Wyld Berry supplies gyms with its own products, made without preservatives and without added sugar. Takeaway and on board You can order ahead through the venue's own site and collect at the restaurant. And because Port Adriano is around the corner, there is a separate menu for boats: ordered in advance, the food is brought straight on board. For that the online shop stocks granola, energy balls, chia pudding and a whole beetroot and chocolate tart.