Restaurants and Cafés

The main entrance to the dining room is through the café that has a simple and unadorned aspect that is normal in this kind of establishments, especially in rural areas. The room is also unpretentious but very cosy, with several tones of granite stone on the floor, red cotton tablecloths protected by white paper covers, regional crockery, photos allusive to Alentejo decorating the walls and a long red curtain at the back of the room. But the best of the restaurant can be found in the warm welcome and in the appetising food with which Patrícia and Manuel Rodrigues, the owners, spoil their clients in a very friendly and relaxed environment.  

The cuisine is simple, abundant and delicious made with produce of the region and culinary flavours inherited from previous generations, precisely as if we were at home. There are no tricks, no secrets, just the magical skill for cooking. For starters there is Alentejo bread, olives, crackling, chorizo sausage, paio sausage, sheep’s cheese and Évora and Nisa Cheeses, both PDO. The most emblematic dish is asparagus migas with fried pork, but dogfish soup, skate made according to Arcos’ own recipe, that is fried and flavoured with coriander, oven-roasted lamb and wild boar with black beans, venison, also roasted with black beans, and charcoal grilled lamb with olive oil and coriander are also highly appreciated delicacies. Homemade desserts, such as sericaia with Elvas Plums PDO especially! Small selection of wines with half a dozen Alentejo wines and two or three “vinhos verdes”!