O Luar de Janeiro
Évora, Portugal
The read// why locals go
On Rua do Janeiro, inside Évora's walls, O Luar de Janeiro keeps to traditional Alentejo cooking and to prices locals still call fair. Alentejo food is a cuisine of patience — its cooks build flavour out of bread, pork, olive oil, coriander and time rather than out of technique, and a traditional house like this one is where that repertoire survives in its unhurried form. Dinner is the main event, a full plate at around €22, in a dining room shaped by regulars rather than by any designer. Évora fills with visitors on their way to the Roman temple and the cathedral; this is one of the tables where the city eats once the day tours have gone.
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Rua do Janeiro 24, 7000-561 — Évora
The read// why locals go
On Rua do Janeiro, inside Évora's walls, O Luar de Janeiro keeps to traditional Alentejo cooking and to prices locals still call fair. Alentejo food is a cuisine of patience — its cooks build flavour out of bread, pork, olive oil, coriander and time rather than out of technique, and a traditional house like this one is where that repertoire survives in its unhurried form. Dinner is the main event, a full plate at around €22, in a dining room shaped by regulars rather than by any designer. Évora fills with visitors on their way to the Roman temple and the cathedral; this is one of the tables where the city eats once the day tours have gone.
