Restaurants and Cafés

Located in a quiet street next to Praça do Giraldo in the heart of Évora, this small restaurant stands out for its home environment, its traditional cuisine and its competent service, including the wine service in the hands of a qualified professional, who is a sommelier. In 1976 it opened as a beer house and ten years later became a restaurant still run by the couple Leontina and João Marques; she more often in the kitchen and he in the dining room – as he is the sommelier –, both qualified professionals having graduated at Escola de Hotelaria e Turismo de Lisboa. The room is cosy with a terracotta tiled floor, white walls, red and white tablecloths, white napkins, good quality glasses (Bordeaux and Bourgogne type glasses) and sober décor.  

The menu changes on a daily basis so as not to tire the regular clients. It starts with the typical Alentejo couvert: Alentejo bread, Olives from Elvas and Campo Maior PDO and a taste of organic Moura Olive Oil PDO. This is followed by the starters, the typical dishes from the Alentejo region, as are almost all the desserts, the dishes that are made form Alentejo produce and other dishes. Good ingredients, staple cooking, well defined flavours from scrambled eggs with asparagus, roast mushrooms and pig’s trotters in a coriander sauce to dogfish soup and to lamb stew that are dishes served every day, to asparagus migas with fried pork meat, to oven-roasted lamb, to beans with pork spine. Desserts include pão de rala, bolo rançoso, pudim do Convento dos Loios and vinegar pudding. A good selection of wines and wines by the glass chosen by the sommelier!