Mandala Café

Salamanca


Come here with an appetite, as cool and casual Mandala offers a three-course set menu (unusually available for lunch and dinner) with dishes like black rice with seafood, and vegetable lasagne. There are also 18 flavours of hot chocolate, 52 types of milkshake, 56 juice combinations and more teas than we could count.


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