Restaurants and Cafés

Two words can describe the essential aspect of the restaurant Molhó Bico: typical and Alentejo. That’s the way it is in everything about it, from the white façade to the arches and vaulted ceilings inside to the décor with works of local artists among items of handicraft and clay jars, to the tablecloths in bordeaux red and yellow, that are the colours of Alentejo, to the friendly and relaxed atmosphere where one can sometimes hear cante alentejano or fado, and to the food with produce, scents and flavours of the region. There is an entrance room with Portuguese cobblestones, a dome in brickwork, large clay jars and wooden tables, where they do not serve meals, and another with a terracotta tiled floor, reeds on the ceiling, shelves for the pewter bottles and tables laid in a very simple but correct manner. Touching authenticity! 

The menu changes every day and is a repository of Alentejo specialities that are made according to the recipes and with the produce of the region. The most popular include, for starters, Serpa Cheese PDO, Alentejo paio sausage, crépine crackling, asparagus with scrambled eggs (wild asparagus, therefore only served during the season) and pork liver in coriander sauce; for the main dish, bacalhau, hake and sardine açordas, dogfish broth, country-style lamb stew, oven-roasted lamb, grilled Alentejo pork (tenderloin steaks, plumas and secretos) and beef (veal skewer and veal tri-tip), the chick pea stew, game, especially the hare with white beans, fried wild rabbit and wild boar stewed in witch’s sauce; for desserts, conventual desserts, soft cheese cake with honey or pumpkin jam. Selection of Alentejo wines! Service efficient and friendly!