Lifestyle

Unfortunately for wine lovers across the world, a shortage of wine has been predicted for next year, following a poor wine harvest in many regions ruined by bad weather conditions.  

Portuguese chef Pedro Mendes has now closed his two restaurants in Montinhos da Luz for the winter, but has decided to branch out and offer a variety of catering services.

Coffee prices next year are expected to remain the same as current rates, the president of the Industrial and Commercial Association for Coffee in Portugal (AICC) said last week. “We

By Cristina Alcock features@algarveresident.com Breathtaking creations for all occasions fill the small display area at Confeitaria Ana Sara, a bakery that opened three years ago in Armação de Pêra and

The wild strawberry tree, which produces the fruit used to distil the famous Portuguese liquor medronho, could provide the solution for the regeneration of the scorched soil left by the

Over the past year, production of olive oil in Portugal reached its highest level since 1967. With more than 76,000 tons of olive oil being supplied to the internal and

They could be French, Portuguese or even Japanese but as the Algarve Resident discovers, some of Europe’s best quality oysters are being quietly cultivated in Sagres. By Patrick Stuart patrick.stuart@open-media.net