Restaurants and Cafés

Right in the centre of Cuba, the Adega da Casa Monte Pedral is a spot that surprises us due to the singularity of the premises, the atmosphere and the food. By crossing the patio where a statue of Christopher Columbus stands alluding to the possibility the great navigator is from the small town of Cuba - according to legend as history neither confirms nor denies it – there is an original room: granite floor, large clay olive jars in single file along one of the walls, vintage mirror on one of the counter tops, beer counter and cured hams hanging form the ceiling, cellar with its hydraulic press, a still, vintage furniture, a reasonably sized cork oak and, in the middle of it all, large tables and large leather chairs, inviting us to stay. The farmer José Tomás Landum Soudo bought the building in the 1980s and decided to make the restaurant in the first decade of this century to his own taste. The outcome is very interesting. 

The restaurant serves traditional Portuguese food: mainly typical dishes from Alentejo. Starters include little fried birds in olive oil from the Vidigueira Cooperative, freshly made torresmos, asparagus with eggs and silarca mushrooms or products as noble as the Serpa Cheese PDO and the Alentejo pork cured ham. The main dishes include beans with edible thistle stalks or as they are known locally tengarrinhas and Alentejo pork secretos or presas, lamb stew, garlic and tomato açordas, migas with carne de alguidar, olive migas with fried lamb chops, asparagus migas with grilled Alentejo pork, dogfish soup and purslane soup during the season, and lots more. A variety of top quality desserts! A selection of wines focused on the region – everything that there is in Vila Alva and Vidigueira – and in Alentejo.