Restaurants and Cafés

In a typical street in Arraiolos, a tavern opened over 30 years ago that, even though it was popular, it gained greater notoriety when José Manuel Poeiras Severino took it over to transform it into a typical Alentejo restaurant, with an unmistakable touch of genius. The genius of this excellent master of the art of hospitality involved nothing more than simply recovering and serving with grace and skill typical Alentejo cuisine. The facilities are an example of simplicity and good taste: a large room, decorated with farming tools, rustic brickwork and tables covered with good white tablecloths.  

The cuisine is all home made with top-quality produce. There is a large quantity of cold starters: cuttlefish, pig’s ear, roast peppers, quail’s eggs, fava beans, roast chicken, all marinated in a vinaigrette sauce, Iberian ham and chickpeas with bacalhau; warm starters include grilled mushrooms, poached eggs in tomato sauce and scrambled eggs with asparagus. The extensive list offers a variety of montado Alentejo pork dishes, such as, testacles in a mushroom sauce, grilled kidneys, pork medallions prepared in the style of Alpendre and Alentejo pork meat prepared to an Alentejo recipe; montado lamb: fried chops with potato migas and Alpendre chops with asparagus migas; and montado veal: casseroled steak, chunk of veal with mint migas and grilled sirloin steak, among others.  

The list of fish dishes includes fish roe açorda with fried dogfish, grilled Alpendre bacalhau, dogfish with clams and tomato rice with tiny deep-fried mackerel. The special migas on the list include, among many others bacalhau, fava beans with sausages, Alentejo style with carne do alguidar, or ganhões (tenderloin rolled in bacon). The other house specials are pasta with fish, bacalhau rice, Alentejo-style gaspacho with fried mackerel, Alentejo-style açorda and chickpea stew and pasta.  

For dessert there are conventual and regional desserts: pastel de toucinho, pão de rala, encharcada, sericá with Plum Elvas PDO, prepared by the magic hands of dona Fátima. 

Excellent selection of wines, mostly from Alentejo! Attentive and friendly service!