Restaurante Zé do Sporting

Parque Natural da Serra da Estrela


A local favourite, the vine-covered terrace of this cheerfully boisterous restaurant heaves at weekends as families and groups of friends crowd in for a filling homestyle feed. Speciality of the house is the grilled meat, with reliable crowd-pleasers such as coelho (rabbit) and cabrito (kid).


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