Restaurante Viola
- Book or walk in
- Free parking nearby
- Cards accepted
A roadside dining room in Estreito de Câmara de Lobos where the point is espetada: beef on a laurel stick with salt, garlic and bay, grilled over an open flame. The menu is short, the portions are not, and the room fills with people who live up here.
About Restaurante Viola
Espetada is older than the restaurants that serve it. Beef is rubbed with salt and garlic, threaded onto a stick cut from a laurel tree with bay leaves between the pieces, and held over fire. Viola does it in the open, where the tables can watch it cook.
The menu runs to beef or chicken on the skewer, a few other grilled plates, and two desserts worth leaving room for: a banana set alight and a cheesecake under passion fruit. It is a room rather than a terrace, the portions assume you came hungry, and the poncha is good enough to order before you have sat down.
Good to know
- Skewers
- Lombo or filete, beef or chicken
- Sides
- Milho frito, chips, salad, bolo do caco
- Outside
- No terrace, all indoors
- Takeaway
- Yes, but no delivery
- Wi-Fi
- Yes, in the restaurant
- Hours
- Can change on public holidays. Call ahead if it matters.
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