Imperio Dos Sabores - Covilhã

Meal type: Lunch Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

This place is off the beaten path but if your are near it the stop is worth it. Top quality ingredients, great red table wine and best of all the meat dishes are cooked to perfection! Well done, thank you for sharing Portugal with us. Price per person: €15–20 Food: 5 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 4

Often people hear about french cuisine, English cuisine...not to detract from those, but Portuguese cuisine is exquisite. This restaurant is a good example of a place that although located in a small town has good food, including some traditional game offers such as wild boar, stag/buck, quail, among others. The fish is great too. If possible order one of the more traditional regional dishes.

We are visiting Portugal for our holidays since 2005. Many times we stayed in Covilhã at a small camping that is mainly used by people on their way to Algarve. Restaurant Império dos Sabores is situated just outside the camping, so we almost always eat here once or twice. Over the years we found the food well prepared and the people working there very friendly. The staff doesn 't speak English, but the most basic things they will understand. For us, the need to manage in Portuguese, is one of the charms. The restaurant serves traditional food, which attracts mostly local customers. You might find families, businessmen or even people in their working clothes in the restaurant. This year we noticed that they served two day specials fish and meat during the lunch, besides à la carte dishes. When we went there, they had 'febra do porco grelhada ' (grilled pork cutlet) and 'Carapau com arroz de tomate ' (horse mackerel with tomato rice). As a starter an union soup was served and the dessert of the day was Serradura. This translates to sawdust and is a pudding made of milk, cream and biscuits. We were there with our two very young kids and a local friend. Our two and a half year old son enjoyed rice and fries, but wasn 't in the mood to eat the meat that both my wife and I ordered. A simple meat dish served with oven baked potatoes. Our friend had the fish dish. Of course all food was shared and I tasted everything. For three meals, bread, olives, extra rice and fries, and drinks a Coke, half a liter of orange lemonade and a liter of red house wine we paid an astronomical amount of 27 euros. During our stay at the camping, we also drank coffee at the typical cafeteria/cafe that is also part of the restaurant.

Food: 4 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 4