Restaurants and Cafés

Very well located in the historical area of Alter do Chão beside the Main Church and very close to the main square and castle, Páteo Real is a cosy restaurant with bar, kitchen and terrace on the ground floor and a dining room on the first floor. The stairs lead up to a secluded, sober room with a small counter, a column decorated with bottles and a variety of ornaments, a terracotta tiled floor, with white walls and azulejo panels depicting the Alter stud-farm. There is also a replica of a carriage, wooden tables covered with cotton tablecloths, sometimes protected by paper tablecloths. A cosy environment provided by the couple Luísa and Arlindo Ribeiro who both do the cooking and serve the meals. 

The cuisine, clearly regional, blends simplicity with care. The menu is sufficiently diversified with such dishes as Alter black pudding, pork painho suasage, crackling and cheeses for starters; dogfish soup, which is a speciality, lamb sarapatel for soup; grass-fed lamb from Alter do Chão with yellow rice, Alentejo migas with pork cheeks or fried montado ribs, asparagus migas with a variety of grilled montado pork (plumas, secretos, strips), leg of lamb with oven-roasted potatoes, oven-roasted knuckle of pork and duck rice; for dessert they have traditional homemade desserts originally made in convents. Their selection of wines is 100% Alentejo, with wines from all over the region but especially from Alter. Service attentive and friendly!