Casa do Alentejo

Lisbon, Rua das Portas de Santo Antão 58

A bit of Alentejo in the centre of Lisboa. You not only get the finest food, you also enjoy a house with an interesting architecture. Influenced by the arabs, the style of Dom Manuel and various other mixtures, Casa do Alentejo is a gem of architecture. Combine this with excellent food and some of the best wines of Protugal and you are close to heaven...

Percebes

Percebes are a species of crustraceans, they are a kind of Barnacles (Pollicipes cornucopiae). They grow in the surf of the rocky coasts of the Algarve and Galicia and are collected by local fishermen. These fishermen have to climb down the cliffs and collect the percebes while trying not to be smashed by the waves on the rocks, the most dangerous job on the european continent. Percebes are a rare delicatesse.

How to eat them

Secure the upper part.



Fiddle around until you can get the outer skin of the foot to move.



Remove the outer skin.



Enjoy...

Casa dos Pasteis do Belem

Lisbon, Rua de Belém 84-92 Homepage

In the centre of Belém, the place for Pasteis do Belem (or Pasteis de Nata as they are known outside belem). A Cafe with a lot of back rooms, offering much more space than it looks like. Since 1837 you get the finest and best pasteis here, eat them while they are still warm!

Cafe Internacional

Much less well known than Peter's Cafe Sport, the Cafe internacional is the place for the locals in Horta. It looks like the place where the telegraph engineers met in 1900, having the charme of a place lost in time since about 100 years. Much less overcrowded and much more a normal cafe than a tourist attraction we preferred it to Peter's. Definitely a must and an insider's tip if you are visiting Faial!

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Restaurante República

Location: Faro, Rua da Republica

Opening hours: Lunch all days except sunday (?) and dinner all days
Prices: expensive, but well worth the money

A place where, when you ask what the chef recommends, you get shouted at that everything is recommendend, this is not one of those places where only one dish is good and the rest is crap, here everything is good. And amazingly enough, the chef is right. Everything is brilliant. We had sole with clams which was excellent, as dessert we had Tarte de amendoims and some other typical algarvian sweets, you just cannot have enough of it. A must!

The first steps of a future gourmet

Extreme Home Schnitzeling

Don't try this at home.

The Fat Lady Sings

Location: Obere Karlsstrasse, Erlangen, Germany
Opening hours: most of the time
Prices: above the Erlangen average, but still OK
Overall Rating: One of my favourite pubs



What do you say about a place where they play songs like The Menstrual Rag, have a good steak, fish and chips, have homemade chips, sandwiches, devilish hot pizaas and good beer? It is run by a fun irish-man, if he isn't bringing your beer it's one of the nice waitresses. Just a fun place to be, a nice pub. We need more of these, definitively.

Tomato Soup Cake

I found this recipe in a book called "The New York Cookbook". It sounded so strange, I just had to try it... It's amazingly good.

Ingridients
125g vegetable Fat (in Germany this is "Palmin")
250g sugar
1 large egg
300ml Tomato Soup (canned or freshly made...)
250g Flour
1.5 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Cinammon
1 tsp. freshly ground nutmeg
0.5 tsp. ground cloves
1 dash of salt
60g walnuts
90g raisins

Preparation
Heat the oven to 180°C.
Whisk the vegetable fat that it gets a bit foamy. Join in the egg and the sugar, mix it until it gets a homogenious paste. Add the tomato soup, then join all the dry ingridients, mix until it looks like pastry. Fill in a cake tin and bake for 40-45 minutes. Cover with icing sugar.