Alvor Restaurants Algarve

Tasty Alvor Cooking

Top of the list of gastronomic delights associated with Alvor is tasty, grilled sardine, served on a slice of home-made bread, a simple but delicious combinaton to be had in any of the restaurants down on the quayside. But there is more than grilled sardine to Alvor's culinary repertoire.
Local entrées include chard and purslane soups, white bean soup with sweet potato, bread and tomato soup - a favourite of the local fishermen - and "arjamolho" a refreshing soup that is ideal on hot days. There is a plentiful choice of fish and seafood too.
Cataplana, which takes its name from the traditional hinged copper vessels in which it is cooked; fish stew; bean and whelk stew made with large whelks, red beans and green peppers and seasoned with parsley and bay leaf. The maritime sole of the menu also includes razor clam risotto, "carapau" (a fish not unlike mackerel) in a vinegar sauce, and fried baby cuttlefish, while rural flavours and produce take the fore in broad beans with fried fish, corn broth with sausages or sea food and Portimão-style peas.

Nor is there any shortage of cakes and desserts, many of which rely on a judicious combination of figs, almonds, sugar and eggs: "morgados", "Dom Rodrigos", "bolas de ovo" and "figos cheios".