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Bar Centro is the café on the Plaça de la Constitució in Sant Francesc Xavier, the capital of Formentera, a few metres from the Consell de Formentera. It opened more than a hundred years ago, and the present family has run it since 1966.
The food
Bar Centro is above all a café. The kitchen keeps to simple things: potato tortilla, toast, salads, gazpacho and juices.
A century on the square
Xumeu d'es Cafè opened the bar more than a hundred years ago. Until the early 1960s it was Fonda Campillo, run by Rita and Antonio Campillo; a Swiss operator, Joan Saxer, held it from 1963 to 1966, when María and Pepe "Sala" took it on with a new lease. Today Pepe Ferrer Colomar, the fourth generation, manages the bar, his daughter María is the fifth, and his mother, about 90, is still its head. About a dozen people work there. Where the name comes from is disputed: some say a republican centre, others the centre of the island.
Visiting
Bar Centro is at Plaça de la Constitució 3. The terrace sits on the square, now a pedestrian one, and its regulars are local politicians, long-time residents and visitors alike. Phone: +34 971 32 20 63.
Nearby
Bar Centro is in the middle of Sant Francesc Xavier; Cala Saona and Es Ca Marí, the nearest beaches, are a few kilometres away.
