Restaurants and Cafés

It was a tavern and a grocer’s shop before becoming one of the most popular restaurants in the region, as it has been since 1982. It has a small entrance hall with a counter and an aquarium, where there is always live seafood, and an indoor room with a terracotta tiled floor, a fireplace, display cabinet and a refrigerated display case basically used for desserts, tables with cotton tablecloths protected by paper covers, a simple décor where the clay pottery and a simple, relaxed and very homely environment are the words of the day. Manuela and Fernando Santos inherited not only the restaurant from their parents but also their knowledge of the produce and the recipes of the region that they insist on keeping. 

The main chapters of the menu are devoted to fish and seafood, albeit there are some interesting suggestions for meat dishes. The starters mainly consist of sea-related snacks: goose barnacles, velvet crab, coastal prawns, amêijoas à Bulhão Pato, fried moray eel and others; the main dishes include grilled fish – sargo, robalo sea bass, sole, sea bream -, in addition to others cooked in the pot, such as pasta with fish or monkfish rice, fried fish with tomato rice and fish soups; the meats include highlights such as migas with pork meat, mixed meat with prawns and clams, fried rabbit and carne de porco à alentejana. Traditional homemade desserts, such as chocolate mousse, condensed milk dessert and the house dessert are the sweet highlights. A selection of mostly Alentejo wines. Friendly service!