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Dom Joaquim
Housed in a renovated building, Dom Joaquim offers fine dining in a contemporary setting. Modern artworks line the stone walls, and cane chairs grace clothed tables. While it’s smart and trendy, it offers excellent traditional meat-based (including game) and seafood dishes, such as perdiz (partridge) and caçao (dogfish). For dessert, we dare you to try the toucinho ransoso dos santos – literally translated as ‘rancid lard of the saint’. Oh so sweet.
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Tasquinha d’Oliveira
Tasquinha d’Oliveira This delightful, intimate restaurant (14 places) has tables decked out with crisp white tablecloths and is decorated with ceramic plates. The menu features a small selection of well-prepared Alentejan cuisine. Judging by the framed write-ups on the wall, this restaurant has already been noticed.
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Zona Verde Restaurante
This smart restaurant may have done a modern renovation (it replaced the original azulejos ), but thankfully, it hasn’t changed its traditional cuisine. It serves massive portions of excellent regional specialities, including ensopado de borrego (lamb stew). Warning: even the half servings are massive.
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Cantinas
Cheap and filling cafeteria food abounds at the university’s student cantinas, off the courtyard of the AAC – one upstairs at the back (southern) end and one down a flight of steps on the eastern side. The downstairs restaurant generally has better food but is also more likely to ask to see student ID.
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Restaurante Tabuleiro
Located just off Tomar’s main square, this undistinguished-looking eatery with multilingual menus posted out front doesn’t immediately inspire confidence, but step inside and you’ll discover a family-friendly local hang-out with warm, attentive service, great food and ample portions.
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Restaurante Italia
Cheery Italia serves reasonably good Italian food, but what really draws the crowds is its incomparable location. The sunny glass-walled dining room is cantilevered out over the Rio Mondego, while breezy outdoor tables bask in the shade of giant sycamores in the adjacent riverside park.
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Cozinha das Rainhas
Attached to the Casa das Senhoras Rainhas hotel, this elegant restaurant offers some of the finest dining in Óbidos, and award-winning desserts like pêra escarlate – pears with panna cotta in a ginjinha (cherry liqueur) reduction.
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São Rosas
White tablecloths under whitewashed arches equal rustic meets smart, and the food is great, featuring some unusual starters (such as smoked salmon and buttery, garlic-covered clams), pork and clams, and gaspacho in summer. It’s near the former palace.
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Molho de Brócolos
Feijoada with vegan ‘sausage’? Miso soup in Portugal? It’s enough to make a vegetarian swoon! Hidden on the 4th floor of a movie theatre-turned-shopping mall, this new arrival serves reasonably priced organic and vegetarian food.
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Porta Larga
For a quick snack with a hefty dose of local flavour, António’s sandes de leitão (roast pork sandwich) can’t be beat, although it’s best avoided if you’re squeamish about little piggies turning on spits.
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Bar Lagar da Mouraria
Enjoy the simple menu of tapas, cheese, sausage, sandwiches or fish soup in this lovely traditional bar behind the post office. It’s housed in a former winery, with beamed ceiling, a flagstone floor and seats around a massive old winepress.
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A Cadeia
The restaurant serves petiscos (snacks; €4.50 to €6.50) plus free-range meat dishes. There’s also an area for coffee and drinks under the building’s arch. The dessert menu is delectable.
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Adega do Isaías
To enter this award-winning, rustic tasca (tavern), you pass by a sizzling grill cooking up tender fish, meat and Alentejan specialities. Inside, a wine cellar awaits, crammed with tables and huge wine jars.
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Alcaide
This upstairs restaurant with wrought-iron chandeliers and windows overlooking town features creative dishes like requinte de bacalhau (salt-cod with cheese, chestnuts and apples).
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Calça Perra
Eat in the pretty pink-walled dining room or the breezy courtyard below. Best in the off-season, when €7 lunch specials include beer or wine, soup, main course and coffee.
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Restaurante Cervejaria São Domingos
This unpretentious and pleasant family-style place has beautiful azulejos, wooden chairs, white tablecloths and robust Portuguese fare.
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Adega Paço dos Condes
Usually crowded with students and Coimbra locals, this straightforward grill is one of the city’s best affordable eateries.
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O Forno
This is the local pastelaria (pastry and cake shop) of choice for a local breakfast snack (or any excuse).
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Churrasqueira Giro
This back-alley place serves wonderful traditional Portuguese fare in a pleasant tiled dining room.
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Restaurante Italia
Cheery Italia serves reasonably good Italian food, but what really draws the crowds is its incomparable location. The sunny glass-walled dining room is cantilevered out over the Rio Mondego, while breezy outdoor tables bask in the shade of giant sycamores in the adjacent riverside park.
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