Our menu

Soups

Caldos

Caldo do dia

Changes every day.

Soup of the day

Canja de galinha

Chicken broth with rice, just like at home.

Chicken and rice broth

Starters

Entradas

Morcela e chouriça na frigideira

Regional sausages, fried and served sizzling.

Pan-fried blood sausage and chouriço

Queijo do pastor e presunto

Sheep's cheese and sliced cured ham.

Shepherd's sheep cheese and cured ham

Cesto de pão sortido

Cornbread and local bread.

Basket of regional breads

Fish

Peixes

House speciality

Bacalhau podre, apodrecido na adega

An old recipe for salt cod cured in the cellar. The name is tradition, the flavour is intense.

Cellar-aged salt cod, an old village recipe

Bacalhau na broa

Salt cod loin baked under a cornbread crust.

Salt cod baked under a cornbread crust

Bacalhau à lagareiro

Roasted and drizzled with olive oil.

Roast salt cod with olive oil

Polvo frito, tenrinho como manteiga

Octopus boiled, then fried.

Tender fried octopus

Polvo à lagareiro

Oven-roasted and drizzled with olive oil.

Roast octopus with olive oil

Meat

Carnes

Arroz de vinha d’alhos com entrecosto

Rice cooked with pork ribs marinated in wine and garlic.

Rice with pork ribs marinated in wine and garlic

Arroz de míscaros com entrecosto

Rice with míscaros, seasonal wild mushrooms, and pork ribs.

Rice with wild mushrooms (míscaros) and pork ribs

Javali com castanhas

Wild boar stewed with chestnuts.

Wild boar stewed with chestnuts

Posta à Cortiço

Cortiço-style steak

Feijocas com todos à maneira da criada do Sr. Abade

Large red beans with pork and sausages, served in the cast-iron pot.

Red bean stew with pork and sausages

House speciality

Rojões com morcela como fazem nas aldeias

Pork fried in its own fat, with blood sausage and turnip greens.

Village-style fried pork with blood sausage

Secretos à lagareiro

Roast pork secreto drizzled with olive oil.

Roast pork secreto with olive oil

Miminhos de porco à João Padeiro

Braised pork cheeks.

Braised pork cheeks

Cabrito assado no forno à Pastor da Serra

Roast kid goat with potatoes, in a clay dish.

Oven-roasted kid goat with potatoes

Arroz de pato à maneira antiga

Oven-baked duck rice.

Oven-baked duck rice

Vitelinha na púcara à lavrador de Cavernães

Veal slow-cooked in a clay pot.

Veal slow-cooked in a clay pot

Aba de vitela à Lafões

Braised veal, Lafões style.

Lafões-style veal

Arroz de carqueija

Rice with carqueja, a wild herb from the Beira hills.

Rice with carqueja, a wild mountain herb

Morcela torrada com legumes

Roast blood sausage, served with vegetables.

Roasted blood sausage with vegetables

Vegetarian

Vegetariano

Saladas variadas

Depending on the season.

Seasonal salads

Espetada de tofu ou seitan

Grilled.

Grilled tofu or seitan skewer

Tofu à Brás

With matchstick potatoes, egg and parsley.

Tofu with matchstick potatoes and egg

Desserts

Sobremesas

Pera bêbada

Pear poached in red wine.

Pear poached in red wine

Farófias

Poached meringue on egg custard with cinnamon.

Poached meringue on egg custard

Pudim de amêndoa

Almond pudding

Castanhas de ovos

Egg-yolk convent sweet.

Egg-yolk convent sweets

Bolo de noz e bolo de alfarroba

Walnut cake · Carob cake

Sonhos

Portuguese fried dough puffs

Fish and meat dishes can be served as a full or half portion. The menu may vary with the season and available produce. If you have any allergy or food intolerance, please tell us before ordering.