Portugal Guide: Meals

A good value dinner in Lagos, the Algarve

Portugal's unique approach to a cover charge usually includes the elements on the left; bread, butter, olives, paste [sardine/tuna etc.].
You can try to send it back, though you may be met by some resistance, so the best option is to factor it into your menu or appetite decision, enjoy the olives and paste and be happy to fork out a couple of € for the pleasure.
If you don't touch it you will probably still be charged for it so if you really don't want it and don't mind about your relationship with the waiter, send it back.
Grilled sardines are the cheapest fish available. This meal, from a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, including two glasses of wine, cost about €8 in 2004.

Breakfast is the most disappointing meal of the day, usually consisting of unnatural orange juice, bread roll, jam and coffee or tea.

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