Taberna da Adega ★ 4.3
The dining room inside the Pedra Cancela winery at Areal, serving Dão recipes with the Lusovini range poured at set temperatures in matched glassware.
The Parador's dining room at Penalva do Castelo, cooking from the estate itself: Quinta da Ínsua Dão wine, farm-made Serra da Estrela cheese, Bravo de Esmolfe apples and house jams.
Address: Parador Casa da Ínsua, 3550-126 Penalva do Castelo, Portugal, Dão
The dining room inside the Pedra Cancela winery at Areal, serving Dão recipes with the Lusovini range poured at set temperatures in matched glassware.
The restaurant on the Cabriz estate at Carregal do Sal, run alongside the cellar visits and wine shop and booked in advance, next to a 17th-century manor house and chapel.
A 30-seat dining room inside the rural hotel at Soutulho, keeping the original stone and timber structure and serving Beira cooking with the region's wines.
The table inside the converted burel mill at São Paio, with a regional cheese board at EUR 23, charcuterie at EUR 27 and three or four course menus at EUR 49 and EUR 59.
The dining room of the Valverde Santar hotel in the 16th-century mansion at the top of the village, working the Dão vineyards that run down the slope below it.
The restaurant of the Madre de Água estate at Vinhó, drawing on the quinta's own cheese dairy, olive grove and cellar on the Gouveia side of the Serra da Estrela.
After hotel pickup in Coimbra, we take direction to activity start in Viseu. Day dedicated to bicycle touring on an old railway branch that has 130 years of transpor...