Lemongrass can be really tricky to get hold of in the Algarve, so we were delighted to find some in our local supermarket recently, and looked forward to making a Thai dish with it. To our shame, we found it…
Our stop-off at “A Casa” in Santa Luzia was unplanned, but their blackboard listed a range of tempting petiscos (the Portuguese equivalent of tapas). This appealed to us, as we were peckish, but not sufficiently hungry for a full meal….
I make no apology for reviewing a British style fish and chip shop on this blog. Sometime us expats fancy “a taste of home,” (see this post for more on this!) and fish and chips are one of the things…
Fate led us to have dinner in Antonio’s. The seafront restaurant we had originally planned to eat in was full of tourists, and hundreds of mosquitos were feasting on members of the queue. So, on recommendation from some family members…
Continuing on the theme of preserves and ways to use up excess produce, my wife was busy again this week making plum chutney…over to her…. In addition to figs from our neighbours, which we used to make fig jam ,…
When we lived in London, we didn’t get on particularly well with our neighbours. Every knock at the door seemed to result in a dispute over a car parking space or some similarly mundane hassle. One of our neighbours was…
Porta da Ravessa is one of those Portuguese wines you see everywhere, from the tiniest of shops to the big supermarkets, and in all kinds of restauranta. It is cheap (under 2 euros), and dependable, and available in both red…
We’ve visited this little tapas bar twice in the last couple of weeks. Once with just my wife and I, and again with some members of the family following a long cliff-top walk to Lagos from Luz. It’s a shame…
When we visited Monte Gordo earlier in the week, we just intended to have a quick swim after work and then grab a Chinese takeaway on the way home. We didn’t expect to drive home chatting excitedly about the truly…
When we discovered that a bar in Lagos was allegedly “one of the 50 most amazing burger joints in the world,” it was only polite that Food and Wine Portugal went and checked it out! The Algarve is disappointingly short…
