When we look for restaurants on vacations we try not to hit those which are overly touristy but obviously many of them still cater to tourist, e.g. English menu available etc. And so it was a nice change when we went to Tempo https://restaurantetempo.pt/ in Braga which is located outside of the town center in a more residential area, only Portugese menus and we seemed to be the only non-Portuguese in the restaurant. The food was an interesting mix of some fusion-inspired dishes as appetizers and very good Portuguese “classics” as entrees (octopus in Portugal is fantastic everywhere but this one was particularly great) which had a more “rustic” feeling than at other restaurants before - only kind of “downside” were the portion sizes which were huge (even for US standard) and so there were a lot of food we had to leave at the restaurant.
Couvert - bread, flavored butters, ham
Fresh burrata, ham, tomato salad, pesto sauce
Tuna tataki
Mini beef and lime tacos
Mushroom, asparagus, truffle and roasted pine risotto
Octopus in the oven, punched potatoes, bread, eggs and olives
Stuffed cod gratin with mashed potatoes and ham
Salted caramel and passionfruit
Chocolate and red berry tiramisu
