In a town where all restaurants have the same dish it is difficult to differentiate…read more This restaurant is amazing! A exceptional service Really tasty food Exceptionally clean and well decorated. I eat regularly at Mealhada. This is my favorite spot. A must

Really juicy leitao but I wish the skin was crispier! Super good potato chips and the gateau au…read morechocolate for dessert was amazing. Pricey but worth it. We also had to wait over an hour for a table for 7 since the place was packed! Our waiter was also super friendly and recommended desserts and wines for us. Very professional staff and clean location, overall a great Portuguese experience!

If you are looking for a traditionally prepared Portuguese suckling pigs then this could be the…read moreplace. All of us loved the quickness of the service, amazing taste and fresh deserts. We took three portions and that easily fed four of us with salad and bread and olives and wine and water about 35euro per two... I easily recommend this place for my friends. If interested you can go look at the back room kitchen where pigs are cooked (see the pictures)

Newcomers to both Portugal and Portuguese cuisine, we set our hearts on trying leitão assado a…read morebairrada, roasted and basted suckling pig, a regional speciality associated with Bairrada but found throughout the country. Setting out from the centre of Coimbra, we had to go no further than the suburbs to accomplish this, at Rui dos Leitões restaurant, at Rua Barraca Fornos, 3020-923 TORRE DE VILELA ( Coimbra - Trouxemil e Torre de Vilela ). A fifteen minute taxi ride (an adventure in Coimbra) from the city centre, the food was well worth the trip. Placing ourselves in the waiter's hands, we found our table quickly full of leitão assado, french fries, and salad, accompanied with the local sparkling white wine, espumante da Barraida. With crispy outer skin and melt-in-your-mouth delicious meat, the meal was one of our favourites of the entire trip. Perhaps this also had something to do with the desserts, flan in ice-cream form and crema catalana, nothing short of sublime. Well worth the effort to find it!!!