Where to eat in the Algarve, Portugal

Restaurante Atlantico in Praia da Luz

Restaurante Atlantico is situated on Avenida dos Pescadores, just past the church on the road down to the Praia da Luz sea front.  There is an outside covered terrace where it is particularly pleasant to eat on warm summer evenings.  The restaurant has both typical Portuguese and International dishes on it's menu, many of which have an innovative twist to them.

Starters include the usual prawn cocktail and smoked ham with melon but there is also mussels in white wine, coriander and cream, prawns fried in garlic with piri piri, panfried mushrooms with garlic and coriander sauce and deep fried brie with apricot chutney together with chef's and tomato salads and fish, homemade tomato and Portuguese vegetable with chourico soups to choose from. For connoisseurs of fish soup, this could be one of the best.

There is a wide choice of main courses: if your taste is for poultry, then there is grilled chicken, tropical chicken breast with fresh fruit and a hint of curry and breast of duck a l'orange.  There are steaks, several with unusual sauces such as piri-piri, garlic and mushroom, creamy green pepper and Bearnaise, mixed grill, rack of lamb, loin of lamb or pork and pork fillet.

There is a good fish menu with Gamba prawns fried with garlic and piri-piri, mixed shellfish, hake fillets and the Algarvian Cataplana dish.  From the grill there are Tiger prawns, salmon steak in a shellfish sauce, codfish with garlic and swordfish stuffed with goats' cheese, tomato and olives.

The restaurant offers a vegetarian dish of the day, a good selection of wines and a choice of sweets such as almond tart or orange tart with coffee to follow

If you like lobster, crab, suckling pig or have favourite dish, you are to let the chef know!

Maggie & John 2005

If you would like to know more about Portuguese Food and Drink, why don't you dip into our Restaurants in the Algarve section and our series of articles on Portuguese Wines and Ports.  We also feature some Traditional Portuguese Recipes and a glossary of useful Portuguese food & drink words and phrases

Choose Algarve Retreats for your Algarve holiday accommodation

apartments    villas    hotels    Pousadas    cruises    enquiries    home

For further information, please ring 01283 821072 or

email enquiries@algarve-retreats.com