Flavours of Portimão: Market, Tascas and Lunch

Portimão was a fishing town long before it was a tourist one, and it shows at the table. This walking route covers the part that stays off the usual itineraries: the market, the neighbourhood tascas, the family-run restaurants.

There are at least five tasting stops, with fresh seafood, regional cheeses, cured meats and Algarve pastries, each matched to the wine or drink that suits it best.

You pass through the municipal market, between the fish counters and the stalls of regional produce, with your guide explaining what you are eating — where it comes from, how it is made, and why it is this way in the Algarve and nowhere else.

It finishes with a full lunch at a family restaurant, the kind that has been serving the same thing for thirty years. Three unhurried hours on foot.