Fabulous meal in a fabulous setting. This place has only a prix fix menu during dinner time. 7 courses for 28 euros per person. And the three of us added a couple of bottles of fabulous Portuguese white wine as well. Hey.... it was the beginning of our vacation.
We started with the most amazing house made cheese over chopped cashews with onions and beets with house made bread..... and it was the perfect start to the meal.
Next were sardines..... not my favorite, but you've got to try 'em, I guess. After that was a super fresh and yummy salad with lettuce and beans and chorizo. After that came herring with scallions.... another "miss" for me, but my table-mates enjoyed it.
For an entree there was beef with mushrooms and some kind of squash. The flavors were deep and delicious. And, then we had 2 desserts... the first was cucumber ice cream over pineapple salsa, and then the most amazing sour cherry thing.
The wine (chosen for us by the waiter, at our request) was crisp and flavorful and complimented our meal perfectly. It was a wonderful meal to start our Portugal experience! read more