Restaurants and Cafés

This name identifies one of the best-known restaurants and landmarks of Castelo de Vide. It all started in 1955 when D. Isabelinha, an Alentejo tourist ambassadress and her husband Mr. Guimarães, pioneers of the tourist activity in Castelo de Vide, with quality and refinement never seen before in the region, founded the Casa do Parque. The restaurant, which is part of a small hotel with 25 rooms, keeps up to its original standard: it provides traditional Alentejo food, simple and homemade in its preparation and raw materials, which much honour its founders and the local producers. 

The dining-room is spacious and bright, decorated with Alentejo crockery, old Castelo de Vide plates and Santa Eulália pewter ware and also with panels of typical azulejo tiles. The very colourful tablecloths give the ambiance both gaiety and a sense of relaxation. 

Genuine Alentejo cuisine uses the local produce such as olive oil, onions, garlic, aromatic herbs, (mint, pennyroyal, parsley and coriander), and, of course, game, lamb and Alentejo pork with an outstanding outcome, as one can certify by such dishes as the migas alentejanas, the pig’s trotters in coriander sauce, the venison stewed with chestnuts, the mint-flavoured lamb’s leg, the hare rice, the stewed pork leg, the North Alentejo style stewed wild boar and, upon request, the cabrito de cachafrito and the  lamb stew. Any of these dishes are preceded by a generous couvert: local cheese, Nisa Cheese PDO, Castelo de Vide special bread, papa ratos, coriander-flavoured olive oil, linguiça sausage or fried farinheira, and olives. For those who prefer fish they a number of Alentejo specialities: octopus rice with shrimps, grilled bacalhau and bacalhau dourado, among other choices: grilled squid, fried sardines or baby mackerel with açorda and dogfish in garlic sauce.  

Now moving on to the desserts we can see the same skill: boleima de maçã, sopa dourada, individual chestnut and almond squares  or sericaia with homemade jams are some of our suggestions.  

There is a good collection of wines from Alentejo but also from other parts of the country. The service is attentive and professional.