Portuguese cuisine full of eastern promise
The restaurant is called Tavira and it lives up to its name by serving cataplanas and other typical Portuguese dishes. But it’s a long way to go if you want
Charity wine tasting and dinner to benefit Food Bank
Get the New Year off to a good start with a charity wine tasting and dinner at Restaurant Garrafeira Veneza, near Paderne, on Friday, January 25. The event starts at
Taking root in Portugal
This is an unusual assignment for me as I am a great champion of the Portuguese native grapes, and have written several articles in this magazine highlighting the more prominent
Plansel wine evening at Leão de Porches
Last Tuesday, January 8, saw a full house at the charming Leão de Porches restaurant in Porches for a special dinner featuring the wines of Alentejo winery Quinta da Plansel.
Rotten grapes make excellent white wine
A December grape harvest in the north of Portugal can produce an excellent quality wine. Taking advantage of supposedly ruined vines, with grapes already rotten and covered in mould, the
The Essential Christmas party
Pimenta Preta Restaurant in Carvoeiro hosted the Christmas party for Open Media, the publishing group of which the Algarve Resident became a part in April last year. A total of
New additive for healthier wine and dried fruits
European scientists have made progress in finding an alternative to the addition of sulphur dioxide to red wine and food products such as dried fruits. Sulphur dioxide (SO2) is labelled
Chaîne des Rôtisseurs’ Christmas dinner
Around 30 members of the Algarve Baillage of the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs enjoyed a sumptuous Christmas dinner at the two-star Ocean Restaurant of the Vila Vita Parc near Porches. Renowned
Vegetarian meat arrives in Portugal
A new kind of vegetarian meat, produced from lupin beans (a high protein legume seed), is available in Portugal, in the form of hamburgers, croquettes, and even products similar to
New Algarvean olive oil offers a true taste of the land
By Patrick Stuart patrick.stuart@open-media.net It’s normally wine producers who use the French term “terroire” to describe the combination of land, climate and location when extolling the virtues of a particular

