Saturday, March 14, 2009

Azenhas do Mar, Azenhas do Mar (perto da Praia das Maçãs SIntra)


name: Azenhas do Mar
type place: nice portuguese restaurant.
location: Azenhas do mar, close to Praia das Maçãs, Sintra (but near the sea long way from Sintra village)
tel: 219280739 open every day 12-22
price idea: 25-50 €
Waaoow this restaurant is really good, the outside looks nothing special but the inside is very nice and that view is priceless. Very nice fish and shelfish but also meat and vegetarian options.
I really liked this place. Tried for the first time carabinheiros, a very red large shrimp, rare expensive but delicious not like the farmed scampi stuff. If you want to make the trip and visit this nice little village and feel like a royal meal try it it is worth the effort and the money.
mmm: ****

Casa do Victor, (Alcabideche near Cascais Shopping)

name: casa do victor
type place: tipical portuguese restaurant.
location: largo 5 de outubro, 2, Alcabideche (2km from cascais shopping)
tel: 214690305 closes on wednesday
price idea: less than 20 €
It was a restaurant we went to once when we arrived in lisbon it was good but we forgot about it. Not feeling like a fastfood meal from the cascais shopping food court we decided to go here again and it was a pleasant surprise. The menu has a very large variaty of dishes from cheap to slightly more expensive (but very good price quality ratio i think) . More old fashioned way of serving but good service besides the premature arrival of the main dish while we just started our soup. I liked it anyway and for the coca~cola zero lovers they have it in a bottle :)
I had a nice grilled fish after the fishsoup and my partner enjoyed dobrada a typical portuguese transmontana dish with cow stomach and beans.
This is the only restaurant i can recomend when you are in the cascais shopping area and you do not feel like spending your money in the fastfood chains...
here we paid only slightly more and received cola zero from a bottle....
mmm: ***