I sampled my most recent breakfast sandwich on the island of Majorca, one of Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain. About an hour and half from the main hub of Palma is a buzzing beach town called Cala Millor. With a great pedestrian strip and a pristine Mediterranean beach, Cala Millor isn’t the least touristy spot by any means but has all the elements for a great island vacation getaway.
Tucked away from the hustle and bustle is a cute brunch spot called Biggi’s Cafe. The menu is in Spanish, English, and German (Majorca has what I found to be a surprising number of German speaking residents and tourists) and consists of a variety of plates from around the world. Many of these seem to incorporate the cold cut type meats and cheeses that are exceedingly more common in buffet type breakfasts in Europe than they are in the US. This cold cut theme underlined there breakfast sandwich: The Biggi’s Ciabatta.

Overall: 7/10

The Good

The sandwich itself was cold cut ham, bacon, sliced hard boiled egg, ham, lettuce, and a yogurt sauce that was close to a tzatziki. I was taken a back by the cold cuts at first but on second thought, it makes sense given how hot Majorca is. Biggis was opened by a German pastry chef so as expected the bread quality was exceptional. The rest of the ingredients all tasted fresh and this sandwich was a very well put together sandwich and is great on a hot Majorcan morning. The dark horse of the sandwich was definitely the yogurt sauce. It gave a nice underlying freshness that made this sandwich feel properly Mediterranean.

The Bad

As much as the cold cut was fresh, nothing on the sandwich was hot and that just didn’t work as well as a hot sandwich for me. It also became clear that cold cut type breakfasts are their specialty and this was their sandwich spin off. While the ham and cheese were nice, the bacon added very little and I almost couldn’t taste it at all. My biggest complaint, however, was the hard boiled eggs. I see what they are trying to do but I’m here for a breakfast sandwich, not an egg salad. Of all the ways to prepare eggs for a sandwich, who decided hard boiled was they way to go here? While I’ve never stated it explicitly before, I truly believe hard boiled eggs don’t belong on breakfast sandwiches and I’m getting upset just thinking about it.