Restaurants and Cafés

Despite its name, O Brasileiro is a restaurant where the food is typically Alentejo. The name is prior to the present management, who do their best to present, since 2005, top quality local produce, prepared according to traditional recipes, even though, as noted above, the name in no way reveals the type of food that is served inside. The Restaurant is located in a strategic place, near the entrance of Mértola on the road that comes from Beja and it enjoys a beautiful view of town and castle. It has two parallel rooms, the first of which is more open, which used to be the terrace, the second of which is cosier, overlooking the kitchen. Its décor is sober and aims at showing a bit of Mértola through the panel in the inside room, the row of plates on the walls and the azulejo tiles outside. Near the kitchen there is a painting that praises the quality of the local produce and dishes, one would say, to open one’s appetite. 

The menu is well balanced, highlighting the starters and the dishes prepared with Alentejo products, to Alentejo recipes or typically Alentejo.  The favourites are, for starters, partridge in an onion vinaigrette sauce, scrambled eggs with pork farinheira and asparagus with eggs (made with wild asparagus, thus only when in season); as for main dishes, dogfish soup in a terracotta bowl, Alentejo bacalhau açorda, wild partridge açorda; green asparagus migas with pork ribs, old fashioned lamb stew, slow cooked wild boar stew and free range chicken cooked in blood; as for desserts, all the puddings are homemade and unbeatable, especially the sopa dourada and the torrão real. The wine selection focuses on local wines. Service is efficient and pleasant!