Mushroom Days: Sóller goes wild for bolets

It is a seasonal food campaign in which restaurants across the valley add mushrooms to their menus for a few weeks. This is the seventh edition, and it covers both Sóller and the Port. There is no single fixed menu: each venue designs its own offer, so what you find at one table will not necessarily appear at the next.

The official dates are 10 October to 30 November 2026, although some venues may finish earlier.

• Book ahead: contact the restaurant you choose and ask what mushroom dishes they have and until which day.
• Ask about the produce: mushrooms depend on the weather, so a dish can change from one week to the next.
• Pair it with a walk: autumn is a good time to hike in the mountains and eat afterwards. See our hiking routes.
• Choosing where to eat: our guides to where to eat in Sóller and the Port de Sóller restaurants cover the usual options.

Photo: Pau Cabot, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

In Mallorca the main mushroom season is autumn, with a smaller one in spring, and it hangs on the rain: moderate, regular showers followed by mild or cool nights. In pine and holm oak woods the blaves and picornells tend to show first, and the most sought-after kinds, such as the esclata-sang, get special attention as soon as the rain arrives. A dry autumn pushes the harvest back.

Island cooking keeps mushrooms simple: frit de bolets with esclata-sang or camagrocs, potato, onion and pepper; rice with oyster mushrooms; an omelette with camagrocs and caramelised onion; or just grilled with olive oil and garlic. It is a good moment to pair them with local oil, which we cover in the Sóller olive oil season.

Eating mushrooms in a restaurant is safe. Gathering them yourself is a different matter. Mistaking a toxic species for an edible one can cause serious poisoning, and cases linked to wrongly identified mushrooms occur every year.

• Do not pick any mushroom unless an expert or a person with proven experience identifies it.
• Do not rely on a photo, an app or the myth that "if animals eat it, it is safe".
• Check with the town hall or the Balearic government whether the area where you are walking has picking rules or private land, as restrictions can vary by place.
• If you have eaten a mushroom and feel nausea, stomach pain or start vomiting, go to emergency care and take a sample of the mushroom if you have one.

Sources (consulted 1 November 2026): The Calendar Mallorca, VII Jornades Gastronòmiques dels Bolets; Última Hora, 19/09/2025; Última Hora, 04/10/2025.