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1527 reviews
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9.6
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  • Nicholas G.1 review

    June 30, 2025

    10/10

    Eat here! Duck and tuna were amazing! Great prices and fantastic service.

  • Carla A.2 reviews

    June 29, 2025

    9.5/10

    Excellent service, with well prepared and refreshing food. Quality products, very well prepared in original versions of traditional dishes.

  • Marcelo S.1 review

    June 25, 2025

    10/10

    Excellent! Perfect meals, drinks and environment

  • sue s.1 review

    June 13, 2025

    10/10

    From the moment we arrived, the service was outstanding—welcoming, attentive, and genuinely friendly. The staff went out of their way to ensure everything was perfect. The food was absolutely delicious, beautifully presented, and full of flavour. Every dish exceeded our expectations. It’s clear that both the kitchen and front-of-house teams take pride in what they do. Highly recommended— when we revisit Fatima we will definitely be coming back to A Cave restaurant!

  • Andrea F.1 review

    June 13, 2025

    10/10

    Excellent food. The staff was very kind. Excelente service.

  • Rui G.25 reviews

    May 24, 2025

    9.5/10

    Highly recommended

  • Gail L.1 review

    May 21, 2025

    7.5/10

    Restaurant is about 20 minutes walk from the Sanctuary and 20 minutes from the Museum of Aljustrel. Server was very nice and made recommendations for the mains which turned out to be delicious (octopus and a slow cooked veal). Dishes and wine were reasonably priced. Only thing that I did not appreciate was that another server brought over a platter of antipasto (olives, prosciutto type ham, squash and warm bread) and placed it on our table without asking us or letting us know it would cost 9 euros. It’s one thing if they want to give us a complementary platter but I don’t think they should assume we will pay for it. We did end up taking it because they said the shrimp appetizer that were ordered would take 15 minutes and we were hungry. However, their approach was a bit off putting. Overall a good experience and would recommend.

  • Pamela P.3 reviews

    May 15, 2025

    9/10

    The owner was great. Explained in detail how they made their dishes down to the fact that they make their own unsalted butter with garlic and parsley- yum! The restaurant is very cool. It has an open kitchen as well. We had a great experience.

  • David O.1 review

    May 14, 2025

    10/10

    The owner took the time to come to our table and explain every dish in great detail and with passion. All of the food was excellent and the service could not be better. Highly recommend to all. Enjoy.

  • Lek K.3 reviews

    April 10, 2025

    10/10

    Always enjoy coming back to the Cave. Food, wine, service and story make for the magic!

  • Gina W.2 reviews

    April 7, 2025

    10/10

    Angelo took the trouble to explain every dish, including the types of port wines, all done with a big smile. The food was delicious and the portions big. The bread was fresh and crusty, and it came with in-house pumpkin paste and garlic butter. The place was spotless and the tablecloth pristine. It made our 20th wedding anniversary evening.

  • April L.1 review

    March 6, 2025

    9.5/10

    Nena our server was amazing and friendly. Food was outstanding. The starter of roasted asparagus and mushrooms and main of duck confit and carrot purée was melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Well worth a visit.

  • Stephen J.21 reviews

    February 14, 2025

    10/10

    Excellent restaurant with brilliant staff and a lovely atmosphere. The quality of the food is excellent and provides a near unique experience with its innovative menu.

  • Luís Augusto R.19 reviews

    February 9, 2025

    10/10

    Excellent ambient and food.

  • Mafalda B.

    Mafalda B.4 reviews

    November 15, 2024

    10/10

    we were the last ones to leave the restaurant, the chef was trying a new recipe and brought us to the table as a complimentary item. it was excellent

  • Catarina D.

    Catarina D.13 reviews

    November 10, 2024

    9.5/10

    The food was incredible - the duck was the best I’ve ever had! Service was great, and we were impressed that the chef went to each table to check if everything was okay.

  • MARCELO C.4 reviews

    November 2, 2024

    10/10

    Everything. The food was amazing and the service was perfect

  • MARCELO C.4 reviews

    November 1, 2024

    10/10

    Everything was perfect

  • Carlos V.20 reviews

    October 4, 2024

    10/10

    Very good food, quiet environment, very helpful and friendly staff

  • Jessica M.1 review

    September 27, 2024

    10/10

    The food and service was exceptional!

  • Samuel M.18 reviews

    August 25, 2024

    10/10

    Super restaurant = excellente cuisine !

  • James H.8 reviews

    August 19, 2024

    9.5/10

    A Cave is a real find - family operated and patronized by locals. It’s very unassuming from the street - you’ll walk one flight down to the restaurant and enter a nice dining area. The wait staff was great and spoke English - a big plus for us. We started with the charcuterie board and followed with tuna and octopus - all were excellent. Our waiter was very knowledgeable about the local wines and paired our dishes nicely. I would recommend you consider A Cave if you want to experience a lunch/dinner away from the tourist areas while visiting Fatima.

  • Tomás Pablo D.2 reviews

    August 16, 2024

    10/10

    Great food and service, one of the best experiences we've had on our trip of Portugal and Spain.

  • Frederico D.1 review

    August 1, 2024

    10/10

    The attention of every detail of the meal and the excellence of the service.

  • Nga N.1 review

    August 2, 2024

    9.5/10

    The foods are simply amazing!

  • Anthony B.3 reviews

    July 15, 2024

    10/10

    A welcoming place with delicious food. Always glad yo dine there

  • Enrique P.6 reviews

    July 13, 2024

    9.5/10

    Place was nicely decorate for small town restaurant Food was so good, well season and truly portugués authentic .

  • Eduardo A.14 reviews

    July 10, 2024

    10/10

    Delicious food and great service.

  • Eulália D.12 reviews

    June 24, 2024

    9/10

    The food was amazing. A few definite wow moments!

  • Viet-Vy D.

    Viet-Vy D.1 review

    June 6, 2024

    10/10

    This restaurant is a must visit, when you are in Fatima! Great service and such a welcoming and attentive team will leave nothing to be desired. The chef owner came out to give us a wine recommendation and I love his passion for the local (and absolutely fantastic) wine! The food itself was a delight and you would find yourself hard pressed to find this kind of quality for such reasonable prices. Seasoning was spot on and the dishes were cooked with great care. Thank you for this great experience and I will definitely drop by again!

  • Nuno V.20 reviews

    May 25, 2024

    10/10

    Everything very good.

  • Lucia C.

    Lucia C.1 review

    May 8, 2024

    10/10

    It was a wonderful experience of epicurean excellence. Small restaurant with great service and culinary art level of earthy bites of home cooking. We had 4 dishes and all of them were delicious and amazingly prepared. The shrimps appetizer was fresh and seasoned to the best. The bread was freshly baked, crunchy and hot. Needless to say, we soaked up every drip of sauce on the plate. The secondi was Mediterranean Sea bass fillets. It was meticulously prepared with innovative and tons of flavor. As our host, Angelo, gave us the run down of this dish, I felt the sense of pride as a father telling you of his son’s soccer game. The fillets were cooked perfectly with crispy skin and tender flaky white juicy meat. It rested on a hump of delicious seafood pudding, with a careful swipe of garlic aioli on the plate. A poached cherry tomato sat on a pickled onion bench watching the show to start. All the while, a purple dusting of red cabbage lightly sprinkled around. The seafood pudding was a burst of flavor from the ocean, it had good texture and unpretentious. The pickled onion was a perfect balance to the richness of shrimp and clams. Then we had the short ribs. It was a 6-hour braising of a 12-hour marinade cut, The bone-in meat pieces were sat on finely puréed potatoes with a generous portion of rustic black eye peas and wilted cabbage. Just when we thought we are done with flavor town, Angelo brought over our dessert of Rice pudding. It was beautifully dusted with cinnamon over the not so traditional dessert, a quiet crispy rice paper chip sat proudly on top. The companion of the ice cream was a traditional arroz doce churned into a delicious ice cream treat. Very interesting of a show down to be the star of the show. The bill of this lunch was more than fair. We had a very enjoyable time.

  • Lenke G.1 review

    May 3, 2024

    9/10

    Food and drinks weee excellent!!

  • Romeu V.3 reviews

    May 3, 2024

    10/10

    Great host and food

  • Sharon A.1 review

    April 25, 2024

    10/10

    The staff made us feel so welcomed. It was the best service I experienced in all of Portugal!

  • Heidi B.5 reviews

    April 24, 2024

    9/10

    The food was soooo delicious and our waitress, Natalie was so sweet and attentive. This hidden gem is worth a visit! The Salmon in pastry is a unique and delicious choice. My husband had the sirloin, which was perfect.

  • Nina V.

    Nina V.27 reviews

    February 24, 2024

    10/10

    The food was excellent, I order the soup and the tuna and for desert the flan de coco was to died for

  • Edi L.3 reviews

    February 17, 2024

    10/10

    Excellent service and great food 👌

  • Nuno M.64 reviews

    February 17, 2024

    10/10

    Perfect dinner. Delicious food, beautifully presented. The tuna dish, in particular, was absolutely amazing. The bread is brought to the table warm and crispy, as if it had just been taken out of the oven - wonderful detail. The service was very friendly and professional. Highly, highly recommended.

  • Karen M.19 reviews

    February 4, 2024

    10/10

    Amazing food!

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