Traditional restaurant with distinctive wooden cubicles offering seafood paella and good, moderately priced dishes of the day. Inexpensive grilled meat and fish served in upstairs restaurant overlooking sumptuous, Moorish-style courtyard in Alentejan cultural centre.
Most restaurants offer extremely generous portions at very reasonable prices throughout the city.
Vegetarians have a harder time, though vegetable soups and omelettes are widely available. At a Portuguese restaurant, you will be brought a selection of starters such as olives, cheese or spreads when you take a table. You will pay for anything you eat even if you did not order it. Main courses usually come with chips, rice or boiled potatoes and sometimes a small salad. Desserts usually consist of fruit, ice creams and sweet puddings such as chocolate mousse.