Restaurants in other places
Luso
Close to the waterfountains is a beautifull old spa building hosting Rosa Biscoito. Here you can have a drink or eat some tapas, and they have fabulous icecream, with flavours like chestnut and port, or pastel de nata. You can also buy artesanal Portuguese products.
Restaurant “Pedra de Sal” is our personal favorite, and is by many Portuguese considered as one of the best restaurants in the Coimbra area. The staff is very friendly, and you will feel at home. Try the local black pig (porco preto).
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Santa Comba Dão
Leaving Santa Comba towards de IP3, than follow the signs for Viseu/Granjal. After a halve kilometer you find Restaurant “Cota Maxima”. With nice weather, you can enjoy a drink at the terrace with view over the lake.
Caramulo
Restaurant “Marte” is run by a very kind family. The food is excellent and ample. We strongly recommend the Pork and Chestnut stew (porco com castanhas). Mouth watering! It is located in the hart of Caramulo, it has a round fasade.
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Vouzela
Restaurante S. Frei Gil offers big plates for small prices. On weekends its full with large families that enjoy lunch, but there is always a table free.
O Refúgio da Ponte is a much smaller and intimate restaurant, and the atmosphere is more homely. Excellent food.
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Coimbra
Halfway the winding steps to the University, opposite the Fado ao Centro on a little square, is the small Medina Bar. With good weather they have tables outside, in the shade of the trees
Care for something different? Try the Tapas restaurant Tapas nas Costas, also allong the steps to the University. In the back of the restaurant you see the old roman cellars through the glass floor.
Viseu
Restaurant “O Hilário” is a cozy restaurant in a back alley close to the cathedral. The family that runs it is very friendly and helpfull, and you can choose from severall dishes of the day
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Aveiro & Costa Nova
Restaurant “Rossio O Augusto” in Aveiro is a typicall lively Portuguese place, with azulejos on the wall and many local people. Try the Prego no Prato (steak and fried egg)
Restaurant “Dom Fernando”in Costa Nova is an excellent and well known fish restaurant. The prices are more up, but worth the value.
www.restaurante-dom-fernando.business.site
Rabaçal
Opposite the Museum, is Restaurante “O Bonito”. This is the most typicall Portuguese restaurant you can get. It is not romantic. It has concrete walls, a tiled floor, a bar and football on the television. What you don’t get: a menu to choose from, a waiter standing at your table pointing out what’s what on your plate, or a smile (well, sometimes you’re lucky). What you do get is simple choice between meat or fish. First a soup, followed by a big plate as main dish, always fresh and homemade. And offcourse dessert. Accompanied by water, a half liter wine each person and coffee, and all this cost around 7 euros each person.
Lousã
Close to the Castelo de Lousã castle, signposted allong the route, is restaurant O Burgo, locally known for the excellent food. The location is like a fairytale. With cascades and granite rocks, and even a small beach.
Oliveira do Hospital
At the main square is restaurante “O tunel”, according to many the best in the area, and full of atmosfere.
Peso de Regua
One of the former traindepots of the Regua trainstation is converted into a restaurant The River. On one side is a bar where you can taste wine and eat some tapas. On the other side, on the first floor, is a high quality restaurant.
Tomár
Very close to the main square is Restaurante “Taverna Antiqua”. Everything here is medieval, the meals are well proportioned and the wine is drunk out of terracota cups. Don’t worry, knife and fork will be provided. In summer and weekends it can be advisable to make a reservation.