Maratona Café Restaurante — Restaurant in Caldas da Rainha

As the name of the restaurant, the meal itself, felt like a marathon. With its intentional ups and down. We start off with the delicious goat cheese and the alheira entrance, with the amazing folhado combined with the tasty alheira with a weird marmalade chutney to make you remember the Yin and Yang. Later as the main dish, a beautiful steak with an amazing beer sauce. To finalize the run, we had a petit gâteau with an also weird Basel ice-cream. I believe that this restaurant is the perfect jazz arrangement, with a mix of ingredients that will make you love food and hate it at the same time, although never diminishing the overall quality of the experience. Every weird ingredient used can be interpreted as a weird note used in a jazz arrangement and surely, without that note, the song wouldn't feel the same. This restaurant was the ultimate jazz arrangement which is comparable with a real marathon. Congratulations to the madman chef to make us feel...

Been here plenty of times, sometimes during lunch, it is fully packed. Nothing negative about it, it just shows how much everybody loves to be there to eat or just drink something and chill.

Perfect atmosphere for dining in experience. Never once did I get disappointed with the food and service qualities. Whenever food is served, I love how the food were displayed, simple, yet beautifully displayed and well cooked.

Portuguese culture usually drink coffee after mealtimes, however, they have other drink options if you don't want to drink a coffee.

The food and indoor decorations are always important for me, to enjoy the food and to enjoy being in the restaurant/café. Thumbs up to the indoor deco, staff, chefs and food 👍

Thank you for always serving good food and for your great...

Deceiving from the outside. This restaurant also has a popular "snack bar" which has outside seating. I have walked by this place dozens of times but did not know there was a sit-down restaurant here too. Decor is nice, rather modern, and staff was very friendly. I am American and was with a Portuguese native who had been here before and knew to make reservations. Do NOT expect to get a table without a reservation, even during the lunch service. Food was great and the daily lunch special is quite reasonable. I am told that the special does not repeat during a month, meaning there is quite a variety and you won't get tired of eating there!! I will be back many times to...