Restaurants and Cafés

It started by being a tavern on the other side of the house and then came to serve meals in the family’s kitchen and finally became one of the most popular restaurants in Baixo Alentejo. It was in 2004 when Maria João decided to change the direction of her parents’ business and acquired the space adjacent to the kitchen in order to make a decent dining room (the area of the original tavern is still there, perhaps waiting for better days). She looked after the kitchen, her husband looked after the dining room and their success was immediate due to the quality of the premises and the food. Well located in the centre of the village, close to the church, the restaurant has a cosy dining room with a terracotta tiled floor, white walls, wooden ceiling, comfortable chairs, large tables, cotton tablecloths that provide a friendly environment. 

Despite the pleasantness of the space, Cavalariça’s main appeal is the simple, excellent, old-fashioned food prepared with regional produce, like the game that has loyal clients during the whole year for the excellent guinea fowl and partridge açordas, fried wild rabbit, stewed wild boar and stewed venison. But our attention should fall on the whole menu from the paio sausage to the Alentejo pork cured ham from Almodôvar or Serpa Cheese PDO for starters, to the dogfish soup, asparagus migas with a variety of grilled pork meats, to the chickpea stew and the lamb stew for the main dish and to sericaia with Elvas Plums PDO, to encharcada and to soft cheese with pumpkin jam or with organic honey from the hills of Guadiana and walnuts for dessert, which are all homemade. Selection of Alentejo wines!