Susy

Susy opened in 1971, back when the people arriving at Cala Macarella were campers who needed feeding, and it has never really changed its job description. Two generations of Menorcans and their visitors have climbed out of that improbable turquoise water and walked up the sand to the same shaded terrace for the same reasons: a cold drink under the pines, a plate of island cooking, and somewhere to put a wet family for an hour. On a cove famous for having nothing built on it, Susy is the grandfathered exception, and the cove would be poorer without it.

The bar made island news in March 2026 when local press reported that the family business had been sold, with the buyer stating the intention to keep the activity running, retain the staff and improve the facilities. Nothing about the 2026 season suggests a break in service, and in our Menorca beach bar directory we still list Susy as the beach day pick at Macarella, which the rest of this page unpacks honestly, monopoly prices included.

The kitchen does island food without pretending to be a restaurant. The paella is the order that makes sense of the setting, cooked for people with salt still drying on their shoulders, and the Galician style octopus is the regulars’ tell, the dish you order to signal you have been before. Around those two run sandwiches, salads and a proper children’s menu, priced simply enough that a family lunch does not become an event. Menorca Diferente, the island’s own guide, files Susy under simple and for all budgets, which matches what lands on the tables.

The scene follows the cove’s clock rather than a promoter’s. Early, the terrace catches walkers coming off the Cami de Cavalls with rucksacks and empty water bottles. Through midday it is families off the buses and boats, the showers running constantly and the wifi doing its free with consumption trade. By late afternoon the light on the cliffs goes honeyed, the buses thin out, and the last swimmers get the cove closest to how it looked fifty years ago. There is no evening scene to speak of, and that is a feature: when the kitchen quietens, the show is the water, not the bar.

The honest caveats are the ones any monopoly earns. With no competition for miles the prices carry a premium over an equivalent terrace in Ciutadella, and our own Macarella guide flags the bar as pricey for what it serves, so the budget move is a picnic on the sand and Susy kept for cold drinks and the octopus. The 2026 change of hands also means the reliable old certainties deserve a phone call this season: same staff and same activity is the stated plan, but stated plans are what we verify, not what we promise.

Macarella is the postcard the whole south coast of Menorca gets judged against, fine white sand inside a horseshoe of pine covered cliffs, water that runs from glass to deep teal, and its smaller twin Macarelleta one rocky scramble away over the headland. It is protected, unbuilt and consequently busy from late morning in summer. Our full Cala Macarella guide covers the swimming, the crowd curve and the lookout points on the cliff path that produce the famous photographs.

From late spring to September the access road and car park close to private cars, which is why the cove still looks pristine. The seasonal bus from Ciutadella runs through the day, boats drop swimmers into the bay all summer, and the signposted coast path from Cala Galdana delivers walkers in around half an hour of pine and sea views. The path is the popular free option, and no lunch on Menorca is better earned.

Susy itself is a walk up place, with a listed phone line on +34 971 359 467 for anything that needs asking ahead. If you are planning a bigger day, a family gathering or a group hike ending in one long table, put the date and numbers in the form below and we will contact the bar for you and confirm what is possible this season, including the sunbed situation on the day. It costs nothing to ask.