Menu
Sixteen plates,
written this morning.
Everything is for the middle of the table. Three or four plates each is about right: start with a few and keep going.
Snacks
While you decide
Marinated olives, orange peel
5
Gordal olives, served warm with fennel seed.
Vegan
Oysters, shallot vinegar
11
Three from the Sado estuary, on ice.
Tomato salad, smoked aubergine
9
Ox-heart tomato, red onion, coriander.
Vegan
Burrata, tomato, basil oil
12
Torn at the table, with grilled bread.
Vegetarian
From the oven
Oak and olive wood
Squash, brown butter, crisp sage
14
Roasted whole, with a crisp of its own skin.
Vegetarian
Flatbread, lamb, pickled chilli
13
Blistered in ninety seconds, eaten faster.
Pizzetta, three cheeses, green olive
13
São Jorge, requeijão and a little blue.
Vegetarian
Octopus, paprika butter, potato
18
Braised, then charred at the oven mouth.
Plates
For the middle
Spaghetti, slow tomato, basil
15
A six-hour sauce and a lot of olive oil.
Vegan
Sea bass, beetroot, crisp potato
22
Line caught, skin left on and salted.
Prawns and squid, herb sauce
19
Grilled in the shell, parsley and garlic.
Chickpea and pepper stew, couscous
14
Smoked paprika, preserved lemon.
Vegan
Sweet
Cut at the table
Burnt cheesecake, rose
9
Dark on top, barely set in the middle.
Vegetarian
Custard tart, plum
8
One large tart, cut for the table.
Vegetarian
Chocolate and hazelnut cake
9
Flourless, dusted through a stencil.
Vegetarian
Strawberry tart, black pepper
9
Short pastry, fruit from Ribatejo.
Vegetarian
Drinks
A short list, poured generously
By the glass
6
Minho, 2025. Sharp, green apple.
7
Bucelas, 2024. Orange, dry, a little salty.
7
Bairrada. Pale and bone dry.
8
Dão, 2022. Dark fruit, served cool.
Cocktails
8
Mint and lemon peel, a lot of ice.
10
Our own vermouth, orange.
10
Cherry liqueur, lemon, egg white.
Without alcohol
4
Made here, not too sweet.
4
Steeped overnight.
3
Roasted across town, in Marvila.