Palco

The restaurant is named Palco (“stage”), it is within the Hotel Teatro and the food is a masterpiece. We could make further puns, but let's say instead that chef Arnaldo Azevedo is one of the youngest and most promising chefs in town. The 31 year-old has led Palco for the last six, having worked at Sheraton Pine Cliffs in the Algarve, at chef Luís Américo's Mesa and also in Loulé at Amadeus. Here, he updates the lunch menu on a weekly basis (you get to pick from two choices of appetizer, main course and dessert); by dinnertime, Palco serves exclusively two tasting menus, one with six courses, the other with seven.