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Food & drink around Praia da Rocha.

A place for lunch, a different dinner or a café along the way. Explore featured restaurants, cafés and bars alongside other local options, with the actual locality and food style explained in each profile. There are more places to discover around the area. Explore the local dining areas →

An aerial view of NoSoloÁgua’s beach-club area and the Portimão marina end of Praia da Rocha
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16 places to explore

In Praia da Rocha

An aerial view of NoSoloÁgua’s beach-club area and the Portimão marina end of Praia da Rocha
Restaurants · Bars & wine bars

NoSoloÁgua Portimão

Marina de Portimão / eastern Praia da Rocha

International · Asian

NoSoloÁgua Portimão combines restaurants, bars and beach-club spaces at the marina end of Praia da Rocha. It suits a meal or drink with a beach-club atmosphere, with an international food offer that includes sushi.

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Restaurants

Restaurante F, Food & Wine

Avenida Tomás Cabreira, Praia da Rocha

Portuguese · Fish & seafood

Restaurante F offers contemporary Portuguese cooking on Praia da Rocha’s Avenida Tomás Cabreira. Traditional cataplanas share the menu with more composed fish, seafood and meat dishes, giving it scope for a planned dinner by the resort promenade.

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Humbertos

Avenida Tomás Cabreira, Torre da Rocha, shop 4

Portuguese · Fish & seafood · International

Humbertos combines Portuguese fish and seafood with international meat dishes on Praia da Rocha’s seafront avenue.

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Casalinho

Praia da Rocha sand, beach unit 6

International · Fish & seafood

Casalinho is a restaurant on Praia da Rocha’s sand, offering an international menu with seafood, salads and more substantial dishes.

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Dockside

Marina de Portimão

Portuguese · Fish & seafood · International

Dockside offers Portuguese and European-style restaurant meals at Portimão Marina, with outdoor dining facing the Arade estuary.

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Restaurants · Cafés & bakeries

NoSolo Itália, Cletonina

Avenida Tomás Cabreira, Edifício Scalabis, shop L

Italian

NoSolo Itália’s Cletonina venue combines an ice-cream parlour with pizza, pasta, salads and crêpes on Avenida Tomás Cabreira.

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Nearby places to eat

White wooden tables and chairs beneath the decorated wooden ceiling at Caniço
Restaurants · Bars & wine bars

Caniço

Prainha / Praia dos Três Irmãos, Alvor

Mediterranean · Fish & seafood

Caniço is built into the Prainha cliffs beside Praia dos Três Irmãos. The menu centres on Mediterranean fish and seafood, with rice dishes and cataplanas, while the restaurant’s tunnel and beach setting form part of the visit.

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The Restinga Praia restaurant building beyond beach grasses and dunes
Restaurants · Bars & wine bars

Restinga Praia

Praia de Alvor

Portuguese · Fish & seafood · Grills

Restinga Praia is a restaurant and bar on Alvor beach, with Portuguese fish, seafood and grilled dishes. Its beach location suits a proper meal by the sea as well as a drink after time on the sand.

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Taberna da Maré

Largo da Barca, Portimão

Portuguese · Fish & seafood

Taberna da Maré serves regional Portuguese food in Portimão’s old fishing quarter at Largo da Barca. Its tavern setting makes it a town-centre alternative to the beach restaurants further south.

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Dona Barca

Largo da Barca, Portimão

Portuguese · Fish & seafood · Grills

Dona Barca is a traditional Algarve restaurant at Largo da Barca in Portimão’s old riverside quarter. Fish, cataplanas and regional desserts make it a useful choice when you want Portuguese cooking away from Praia da Rocha’s resort strip.

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Maria do Mar

Rua Direita 89, Portimão

Portuguese · Fish & seafood · Wine & tapas

Maria do Mar combines a conservas shop with tasting plates made from Portuguese tinned fish on Rua Direita in Portimão.

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Cafés & bakeries

Casa da Isabel

Rua Direita 61, Portimão

Portuguese · Coffee & pastries

Casa da Isabel is a tea room and cake shop in central Portimão, specialising in traditional baking and Algarve sweets.

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A Ribeira

Largo da Ribeira, Alvor

Portuguese · Fish & seafood

A Ribeira is a seafood restaurant at Alvor’s Largo da Ribeira, with a family background in fishing and shellfish gathering.

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Forte e Feio

Largo da Barca, Portimão

Portuguese · Fish & seafood · Grills

Forte e Feio serves traditional Portimão cooking in a former dockside warehouse at Largo da Barca, with fish from the grill and regional dishes.

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Taberna de Portimão

Rua Damião Luís Faria de Castro 16A, Portimão

Portuguese · Wine & tapas

Taberna de Portimão combines Portuguese tavern cooking, petiscos and wine in the town centre, at Rua Damião Luís Faria de Castro.

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Zé Morgadinho

Rua Padre Mendes, Alvor

Portuguese · Fish & seafood

A former fisherman’s house near Alvor’s old fish market, with regional seafood cooking and two terraces.

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Beyond our featured places

Explore more places to eat around Praia da Rocha.

Dining spreads between the beach, Avenida Tomás Cabreira and the marina. Explore the avenue for more menus, or head into Portimão town for a change of setting.

Avenida Tomás Cabreira

The main resort avenue is a straightforward place to compare restaurant and bar menus. Humberto’s and NoSolo Italia Cletonina are here, with different offers from a traditional Portuguese meal to pizza and ice cream.

The sand and marina

Beach restaurants such as Casalinho are down by the sand. Dockside and NoSoloÁgua belong to the marina end of the resort. Establish which setting you want before choosing a meeting point.

Portimão old town

For an evening away from the resort strip, consider Portimão’s old riverfront and Rua Direita. The nearby-town choices appear after the Praia da Rocha venues in the featured selection.

Local dining area sources

Over 80 places to eat, drink and find a new favourite around Praia da Rocha. Take a wander, browse the menus and make room for a few delicious discoveries of your own.

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