Restaurants and Cafés

Easy to find on the motorway that goes through Castelo de Vide, near the swimming pools – so close that the bar downstairs also serves as the pool bar –, the restaurant Paladar Terrace is an open, calm and friendly space. It has a small room at the entrance that is used as a cafeteria; access to the dining room is by way of five steps or a ramp; and an outdoor café, which is the extension of both. The main room has wall-to-wall windows, terracotta tiled floor, simple tables with white paper tablecloths covering blue cotton tablecloths, discrete décor in a relaxed environment, as natural as the light flooding in.  

The cuisine is regional Alentejo cuisine with its characteristic produce, flavours and smells. Among the most suggestive proposals on the menu are for starters: amêijoas à Bulhão Pato and garlic prawns, that are national delicacies and Nisa Cheese PDO, unless you feel like a typical Alentejo açorda or, during the right season, the no less distinctive gaspacho; the main dishes include: dogfish in garlic sauce, carne de porco à alentejana, a variety of grilled pork meats (lagartos, plumas, secretos) with chips and salad on the side or, upon request, potato, bread or asparagus migas and other specialities of the house, such as the different bacalhau dishes (dourado, with cream or roasted over a wood fire) and fried baby cuttlefish with clams; desserts include egg pudding and other homemade cakes. A small selection of Alentejo wines, including a house wine that is from the region and comes to the table in jugs of a litre, half litre or quarter litres. Very friendly service!