Leisure

By Patrick Stuart  patrick.stuart@open-media.net Gusto restaurant at the Conrad Algarve hotel in Quinta do Lago was the venue for a highly unusual food and beverage pairing on Monday when three-star Michelin

World’s Nº1 Joan Roca is just one of 37 world-leading chefs cooking at this year’s Vila Joya festival. With 37 chefs making up a total 60 Michelin stars from around

By Ana Tavares news@algarveresident.com Offering one of the country’s largest selection of national and international wines, it is no surprise that the much-prized nectar is the theme of a two-week

By PATRICK STUART patrick.stuart@open-media.net Mussels have been readily available from supermarket fish counters here in Portugal for many years, but they have never really been a favourite of the Portuguese,

Leading wine stockist Apolónia Supermarkets will be hosting its annual Wine Fair at the Galé and Almancil stores between ‘between September 21 and October 6. Following the success of last

By Patrick Stuart patrick.stuart@open-media.net I would not usually write my weekly food column for this newspaper about a restaurant here in the Algarve. My “pretentious twaddle” (as one reader referred

Having a taste for the finer things in life can be inhibiting and often completely out of reach for the average budget. Fortunately, every now and then you stumble across

Two producers integrated in the Silves wine group ‘Vinhos de Silves’ were awarded with the ‘Grande Medalha de Ouro’ distinction at the Algarve’s Wine Competition, which took place on August