Casa de Pasto do Zé
Braga, Portugal
The read// why locals go
Casa de Pasto do Zé is an old-fashioned Portuguese lunch room on Braga's Rua do Souto, feeding the same locals for thirty years. A casa de pasto is a plain eating house rather than a restaurant, and the arithmetic here is the whole proposition: around €8 for soup, a main, dessert and wine, cooked better than places charging three times that. Thursdays are cozido à portuguesa, the boiled dinner of meats, sausage and vegetables that Portugal reserves for the middle of the week, and people cross the city for it. Rua do Souto is Braga's main pedestrian spine, so the room fills quickly and makes no concessions to anyone.
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Rua do Souto 45, 4710-246 — Braga
Rua do Souto 45, 4710-246 — Braga
The read// why locals go
Casa de Pasto do Zé is an old-fashioned Portuguese lunch room on Braga's Rua do Souto, feeding the same locals for thirty years. A casa de pasto is a plain eating house rather than a restaurant, and the arithmetic here is the whole proposition: around €8 for soup, a main, dessert and wine, cooked better than places charging three times that. Thursdays are cozido à portuguesa, the boiled dinner of meats, sausage and vegetables that Portugal reserves for the middle of the week, and people cross the city for it. Rua do Souto is Braga's main pedestrian spine, so the room fills quickly and makes no concessions to anyone.