Taberna Sakra

This small restaurant, near the local football pitch, is run with great enthusiasm and wide-eyed ambition by a young couple: Hugo China Ferreira commands the stoves and Débora Cardoso leads the service. In its contemporary dining room, with the kitchen on display at the back, they offer a simple menu built on products that take us back to traditional Portuguese cookery, with dishes as surprising as Atum e molho de escabeche (tuna with escabeche sauce) or their Cabidela de choco (cuttlefish cabidela), served in a caçarola de barro (clay casserole) and intensely flavoursome. A speciality? They say the star dish is the Txuleta de ternera vasca (Basque beef chop), recalling a trip they took to the Basque Country that left a lasting mark on them, gastronomically speaking.