Tavira Restaurants

For many experts, the most celebrated Portuguese dish is Pork with clams. This restaurant offered a variation with "conquilhas" (a sort of delicious small clams whose name I don't know in English). Of course I had to taste it.

Well, not bad, but far from a success - the "conquilhas" were extremely small (lots of work), and the pork was not marinated as in the original recipe. They will have to improve the idea.

Fernanda had good grilled squids, the service was gentle, and the price appropriated. We may return!

We (kids & misses) were waiting for service at the large Irish bar \ restaurant on the other side of the river to the bus station and a Spanish couple were complaining about rat droppings on their table. The waiter wiped them off with his bare hand and then continued to take their order – we left (-:

I would avoid this restaurant. We go to Tavira annually and visited this restaurant for the first time this year. Had to move inside because the man in the next house was hosing his terracotta roof tiles off. Once inside, we waited an hour for our food. Mine tasted delicious but my partners meat was raw. We didnt want anymore but they persisted in trying to persuade him to have a dessert (despite not having a main course). Other people staying at our hotel also had poor experiences here.

We love this quirky modern European place with funky mismatched decor and lighting. Along with the bread and olives you are brought “surprise of chef” which can be anything from hard to fathom salads in shotglasses to curried mussels. The food itself is more straightforward – excellent steak with a good dauphinoise, a trio of of fish fillets and an imaginative duck salad starter have all been enjoyed by us and our visitors. A trio of chocolate desserts was truly stand-out and deserved the “fine-dining” label. A decent, well described wine list. Rich food and quite high prices make this a good choice for special occasions. The service can be as quirky as the decor!

I have reviewed more Tavira restaurants on my blog www.foodandwineportugal.com

Favorite Dish: Trio of chocolate desserts - rich, full of variety and equal to the desserts I have had in fine dining restaurants like The Ivy in London

This has to be the best restaurant in Tavira. The Food is absolutely amazing. Its all organic and local produce. The flavours where amazing, Every course seemed to be better than the next. They seemed to do everything from local dishes to indian curry, do not ask for chips as they do not do them. The staff where very friendly and helpful. The food here was very reasonably priced and they also had a 3 course set menu available which included a half bottle of wine for 25euro. We ate here several times and i cant wait to go back to Tavira to this restaurant, my mouths watering now just thinking of this delicous food!

Only a short taxi ride (7 euros) away to the resort of Cabanas. A small fishing village, perfect for a get away from it all holiday. Particularly quiet last month when we visited.
Found this place after being recommended by a couple we met in one of the seafront caffs. Little difficult to find, but just look out for the church.
Looks like a brand new place, so everything clean and tidy. Although we were there on a February evening, it was warm inside even though there were no obvious heaters. We were also given a warm welcome by the whole family who run this place, including the young son who was sat doing his homework!
The owner " Fernando" has a very British sense of humour and his wife does all the cooking.
Apparently they had run another restaurant in the village before this new venture.
It was a quiet night for them, so we got a lot of attention, which was great, and we learned several things about local ingredients and stories of the origin of the cataplana (local shellfish dish, cooked in a lid-ed "pan") It was a very enjoyable evening and we returned again.

Favorite Dish: My better half tried out the "proper" vegetarian menu, after being fed up of the offering of salads and omelettes as the vegetarian options. One night tortellini the next night a very tasty tomato pasta in the oven. Both reasonably priced.
I had fish on both occasions a bream cooked in the oven with tomatoes, garlic, wine and onions - very tasty and a local "halibut" steak with a mustard sauce. Delicious.
Leave room for the homemade desserts, they are made by on the premises by the wife. Chocolate mousse - out of this world only for chocoholics!!
We noticed they also had a childrens menu aswell and a high chair.

A restaurant with excellent food and atmosphere! Vegetarians heaven and also if you like meat, this is the place to have dinner!

De eigenaresse van dit restaurant is Nederlands en snapt wat goed eten is. Wij zijn tijdens onze vakantie vaak teleugesteld bijj restaurants, maar zeker niet hier.
Goed eten, goede sfeer. Zeker een aanrader voor vegetariers, maar ook de vleeseters kunnen hier terrecht!

We were very positively surprised by this nice restaurant. The food was good, they understand how fish should be and the service was really pleasant!

Een aanrader als je van vis en local eten houd, aangenaam verrast!