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A toast over the plates, by candlelight

Portuguese cuisine with fado

Gastronomy

Flavours that echo like a fado

FADO. SOUL. MEMORY.

The Café Luso menu is a single one, and it is a whole evening: house couvert, starter, main course and dessert of your choice — Portuguese cooking served to the rhythm of the fado sets, without hurry.

From roasted cod to Marrare-style steak, from caldo verde to toucinho do céu: the recipes that never change, served a few metres from those who sing.

Menu

€65 per person

Includes · couvert · starter · main course · dessert

Couvert included

  • Bread, tomato confit butter, marinated olives, sheep’s cheese with organic honey

Starter your choice

  • Chef’s salad
  • Smoked salmon with cream and citrus
  • Caldo verde, corn bread, slice of smoked sausage
  • Mushroom and Serra da Estrela cheese mini pies

Main course your choice

  • Roast cod, smashed potatoes, sautéed greens
  • Minho-style cod (loin with fried potatoes and onion stew)
  • Low-temperature cooked croaker, asparagus
  • Sea bass fillet, roasted potatoes and sautéed vegetables
  • Portuguese-style steak, fried potatoes and sautéed vegetables
  • Marrare-style steak with fried potatoes
  • Chicken supreme, cream and mushroom sauce, fried potatoes and vegetables
  • Iberian pork tenderloin, plum compote, potato gratin
  • Truffled mushroom lasagna (veg)
  • Vegetable gratin (veg)

Dessert your choice

  • Toucinho do céu (traditional dessert crafted from sugar, almonds and egg yolks)
  • Chocolate mousse
  • Rice pudding
  • Wine-poached pear
  • Assorted fruits

Includes fado performance · VAT included at the legal rate · Drinks not included

For allergen information, please ask our staff

A Portuguese wine list and a bar menu are also available to accompany the evening.

The couvert and the bottle of red, among the candles
The main course and the glasses, beneath the lit wall
The plate served, and the night around it
A breaded prawn on its way to the dip
Dessert for two, with two spoons
The house bar, a painted fado singer in the niche among the bottles
The lit wine cabinet, set into the stone wall
A waiter in a yellow apron serving at the table
The kitchen stops when someone sings.
It is not a house rule —
it is common sense.
Café Luso
The room laid out, the long table and the stained glass beyond

Book an evening at Luso

Fado begins at 20:15. The kitchen opens at 19:00. The tables beneath the vault are few — and evenings fill up well in advance.

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