Mallorca's signature pastry, the ensaïmada, is named after saïm — the Catalan word for pork lard, the fat that gives its coiled dough an unmistakable weight. That single ingredient explains much about the island's kitchen: frugal, agricultural, shaped by centuries of what the land could spare. Palma's Old Town, the district bounded roughly by the Almudaina and the Passeig del Born, sits on layers of Roman, Moorish and Catalan settlement. The street plan is medieval. The commerce inside it is not. Sobrassada, the soft paprika-cured sausage now carrying a Protected Geographical Indication, was a farmhouse preservation method before it became an export. Binissalem and Pla i Llevant, the island's two Denominación de Origen wine regions, sit a short drive inland; their Manto Negro and Callet grapes had almost disappeared by the 1970s, revived by a generation of growers who declined to plant international varieties. A palma food and wine tour today traces that recovery through cellars, colmados and market stalls rather than through a textbook. What makes the quarter matter now is density. Within a few hundred metres stand the Mercat de l'Olivar, the Gothic bulk of La Seu cathedral, and a run of century-old grocers whose marble counters have never been replaced. Palma food and wine tour tours work because the walking distances are short and the producers are still local — the cheesemonger's Mahón-Menorca wheels, the almond flour milled from groves that survive along the Serra de Tramuntana foothills, the olive oil pressed under the Oli de Mallorca designation. Architecture reinforces the point. The Old Town's patios — enclosed courtyards behind heavy timber doors, more than 150 of them catalogued — were built for shade and for storage, and several now house restaurants and tasting rooms. Historic windmills on the Es Jonquet ridge, once used to grind grain for the city's bakeries, have been repurposed as venues; a hands-on Spanish cooking class currently runs inside one of them. The Palma gourmet walking tour format grew out of this compression of function: a building that milled flour now teaches paella. The address for all of it is Palma Old Town, 07001 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain. Entrance to the quarter itself costs 0 EUR — it is public street — while the guided experiences are private activities priced by their providers. Options on this page range from a self-guided gourmet tapas and wine route to a guided Old Town food and culture walk, a cathedral tour paired with an ensaïmada tasting, and a local food tour led by a resident. Each threads the same sandstone streets that Mallorcan cooks have used for six hundred years.