Portimao Restaurants

The best things about the cuisine in the Algarve is its guaranteed freshness with locally grown fruit and vegetables and fish you can see being brought into harbour and sold to the local restaurants to appear on your table that same day. The regional fish specialities include razor clam risotto, baby fried cuttlefish, arroz de marisco (seafood rice), carapau (a mackerel like fish) in vinegar sauce and fish stew with clams.

If you prefer meat based dished then try the spicy sausage, pork, garlic and onions served with Portimao style peas and a red and green pepper accompaniment seasoned with parsley and bay leaves; all finished off with cakes or desserts made with various combinations of locally produced figs, almonds and eggs.

The Penina region of Portimao even produces its own full bodied red and white wines.

Listed below are just a small selection of restaurants in Portimao, together with their contact details:

Kibom in Portimao

Address: Rua Damião Faria e Castro, Central Portimao
Telephone: 28/241-46-23

Opening Hours: Monday-Saturday 11:00-23:00. Reservations recommended.

Kibom serves some of the best-tasting and freshest seafood in the area. The restaurant is located in a simple Algarve house with rustic decor and wooden tables.

Bamboo Garden Restaurant

Address: Edificio Lamego, Loja 1, Av. Tomás Cabreira, Praia da Rocha
Telephone: 28/248-30-83

Opening Hours: Daily 12:30-15:00 and 18:00-23:30. Reservations recommended

Bamboo Garden has classic Asian decor and serves some of the best Chinese food on the coast. The extensive menu includes everything from squid chop suey to prawns with hot sauce and Peking duck is the chef's specialty.

Harira/O Almofariz/Sale & Pepe Restaurants

Address: In the Alvor Praia Hotel, Praia dos Três Irmãos, Praia dos Tres Irmaos
Telephone: 28/240-09-00

Opening Hours: Daily 07:30-22:00.

The Alvor Praia Hotel has restaurants featuring three different cuisines. The menu changes every day with the chef in each restaurant featuring their country's finest dishes.

The Moroccan restaurant Harira is decorated with North African art and handicrafts, and specialises in couscous and savory lamb dishes. O Almofariz, is a Portuguese decorated with handmade tiles and local art and serves dishes prepared with fresh fish and seafood.

Sale & Pepe serves some of the best pasta dishes in town and offers Italian specialties.

O Búzio Restaurant

Address: Aldeamento da Prainha, Praia dos Três Irmãos, Praia dos Tres Irmaos
Telephone: 28/245-87-72

Opening Hours: Daily 19:00-22:30

Your meal at O Buzio might include fish soup, gazpacho, or carre de borrego Serra de Estrêla (gratinée of roast rack of lamb with garlic, butter, and mustard). Other good choices are Italian pasta dishes, boiled or grilled fish of the day, pepper steak or lamb kebabs with saffron-flavored rice. This restaurant maintains an extensive wine cellar

O Bicho Restaurant in Portimao

Address: Largo Gil Eanes 12, Central Portimao
Telephone: 28/242-29-77

Opening Hours: Monday-Saturday noon-15:00 and 18:30-23:00

O Bicho is a simple restaurant with whitewashed walls and a few watercolors and is one of the best places in the Algarve to order cataplana (Portuguese pork stew). Other specialities include oysters and grilled seafood.

A Nossa Tasca at Portimao

Address: Sítio dos Palheiros - Portimão
Telephone: 282 491 675

Closed on Sundays

Located on the exit road for Monchique A Nossa Tasca is small restaurant serving traditional Portuguese cuisine at an acceptable price.

A Ribeirinha in Portimao

Address: Rua da Barca, 15 - Portimão
Telephone: 282 414 730

Located in the old quarter of Portimao this is a small "Tasca" restaurant specializing in fresh fish and shellfish and local dishes.

Campu's in Portimao

Address: EN 125, Quinta das Nespereiras - Portimão
Telephone: 282 475 270

A popular and comfortable restaurant which serves straightforward traditional dishes at good prices. Booking advisable at weekends.