✨ Cardo Taberna & Mercearia - Sortelha By Aldeias Históricas de Portugal — Restaurant in Sabugal

The best traditional restaurant in almost four weeks of travel in Portugal. What a gem of a find in the old walled area of the town of Sortelha. We just went in for a coffee, but the restaurant was so beautiful that we had to try some of the food. The owner and his spouse took 18 months to renovate the place by hand, and they support locally grown produce. We ordered the soup à Cardo, made from ingredients local to Sortelha, and a traditional stew called Grainha. This was my favorite – flavorful and scrumptious. Next was the Prego da Bife do Lombo, like a lamb steak, similar to a bifana but much better. Overall, the best experience in Portugal. Highly...

What a find, not just this quaint, medieval village in the centre of Portugal, but also this beautiful Taberna nestled into the hillside amongst other traditional houses.

Talking to the owners, it has been a passion to renovate, restore and bring old traditional, local food back to life.

We spent an afternoon tasting different dishes from octopus salad, selection of grilled local sausages to a traditional mais-based dessert and homebaked cake - of course, accompanied with a glass of homemade lemonade, wine and an espresso to finish.

We have thoroughly loved the experience from the food, drink to the story of development and...

Bottom line - stay away We ordered the chorizo for me and a trout for my wife. They brought the chorizo with lighting it up and everything, but forgot the trout. After a while we asked the waitress what happened to the fish. She first said she was waiting until we finished the chorizo, and only after i told her that her answer is fishy she admitted she forgot to write it down. By the time we got to the chorizo it was non adible (tough, dry and salty) so we did not eat anything after the first hard to swallow bite. They did not even apologise as if this is how the roll evry day. My advise: do...