Restaurants and Cafés

Installed on the ground floor of a modern building in the centre of Vendas Novas, the restaurant Canto dos Sabores opened in 2002 and immediately seduced its clients with its simple, well prepared, tasty cuisine, sophisticated service and family atmosphere. That ground floor with its high ceiling that requires that we climb ten steps is considerate of persons with reduced mobility and allows them to overcome this hurdle with a chair lift. The large room with a stone (paving stones) floor, brick panels on the wall, wide windows, white ceiling, wooden tables and chairs, paper tablecloths protecting cotton tablecloths and a simple décor, is somber but immediately brightens with the first smile brought on by Paula Monteiro, one of the ladies of the house. In the kitchen, opening out to the room, is her partner, Glória Oliveira, from whose hands come convincing arguments for us to love that place. There is a female trait in the profile of Cantinho dos Sabores that gives it beauty and harmony. 

The staple menu is long and diversified with 13 fish dishes and 13 meat dishes and five fish and seven meat dishes on the suggestions of the day, a children’s menu and delicious starters, such as crépine crackling, blood sausage with cooking apples, scrambled eggs with asparagus, roasted red peppers and brawn. The main dishes include, among others, dogfish soup, Alentejo açorda, migas de bacalhau, pasta and fish, pork cheeks with asparagus migas (of unbelievably good texture and flavour), oven-roasted lamb, lamb stew, Alentejo pork cushions and trotters with coriander sauce. All desserts are made on the premises with great skill, as the sericá with Elvas Plums PDO, pão de rala and cooking apple cakes and Conde de Alcáçovas cake prove. A good selection of Alentejo wines!