Tavira Guide

Similar to last year’s Festival, this year Tavira will organize the 6th Festival of Gastronomy of the Serra. And from the 21st of March to the 10th of April you will be able to taste many of the traditional flavours of Mountain gastronomy in Tavira.
The Festival will take place between the 21st of March and [...]

Xarém is a traditional dish of the East Algarve, mainly Tavira which has innumerous ways of preparation. It basically consists of corn flour cooked with clams, with sardines, with grilled meat, you name it…

The original and most common way is with clams. So for this you will need:

1Kg of clams
100g of smoked bacon
100g of cured [...]

Conquilhas, you can never have enough of them. I remember in my childhood we used to make competitions for who could eat it the fastest. It’s a fun dish to make and usually goes very well with a cold drink, beer or vinho verde.

What do you need:

1Kg of conquilhas
4 table spoons of olive oil
4 – [...]