Our first night here we had dinner at a place nearby. It took forever to get our meal and there were very few people there. I ordered a grilled salmon and it was superb and worth the wait. The lettuce and tomato salad, salada mista in Portuguese, was the standard effort with excellent ingredients; they even dressed it. Peg’s grouper was poached and was totally tasteless. Both fish portions were enormous. With wine the bill came to about $40.
Last night we went to Moura Saluquia, which is ranked number 45 out of 1600 on tripadvisor. Peg had a very good corvina (I do not know the English equivalent), which was grilled and served with a salad. I ordered veal with mushrooms, also very good, the veal tender. The bill with the house wine at $3.00 a 1/2 liter came to $23. A much better meal overall, served in a very reasonable period of time, for half the price, very much as noted on trip advisor.
Nothing we have had so very we could not have had elsewhere. The Portuguese are very fond of bacalau (salted cod) but neither of us are fond of it. Perhaps we could find a recipe we like here, as there are supposedly more than 300 ways to prepare it. All involve a long period of soaking in water or milk to reduce the salt content. In general fish and seafood in general is the big thing here.