A Prensa

Ate here with my wife. Best restaurant we've eaten at since being in Portugal. The owners know the secret to success: Clean restaurant with beautiful atmosphere. Nicely dressed waitresses and waiters, with a professional, polite, attentive, knowledgeable demeanor. Good quality food, creatively prepared, in an abundant quantity for the money. The prices for what you get was a great value. Good job A Prensa.

Great restaurant in Alenquer.

Food was very well prepared and the service from the staff was exceptional.

Highly recommend the T-bone, it was delicious.

Wow, we were en route to Lisbon (from Porto) and found this place on a Google Maps. The place is fantastic- food, service all excellent. Imagine stumbling into French Laundry and they had a place for you - it’s like that!!

Directions: map apps will take you to the front of the restaurant but slow down as you get close … you’ll see a sign for “A Prensa parking”, take that right and a left and you are behind the restaurant.

Logistics: the menu is only in Portuguese but thankfully one of the hostesses was from UK so all good. Also, while they do accept credit cards, US credit cards will not work there but there’s an ATM right outside so you are covered.

Wine: very selection from Douro, Alentejo and other places. The prices had a very small markup unlike the markups in the US 😟. Went with a Freixo as I was planning to have the steak.

Food: I ordered the steak and my wife went with a veggie burger + salad. The steak was remarkable made, the meat quality was excellent, probably exceeding Grade A and close to the legendary stuff like wagyu etc. I had it medium - it was well paired with the wine (if I may say so myself 😎). The steak sides were from another planet wow - you got a kale salad, fries, traditional Portuguese beans+rice and “icing” was a tangy oranges and onions with an amazing light dressing. Wow it just blew me away - one of the best meals I’ve had in Portugal!!!

My wife also liked her burger - no bun and it was a custom made veggie patty. She thought it was divine, with caramelized mushrooms and a side salad. She too enjoyed her food very much.

There was no room for dessert but I’m sure the chef would have wowed us. Highly recommend even if you have to drive 40 Kms outside Lisbon. And BTW this place is one of the top TEN restaurants in the country 🤩

Holy cow this was a good meal. Go in a group of at least 4 and order one of the meat platters. You. Will. Not. Regret. It. It's so delicious. We spent the entire morning hiking in montejunto and got to the restaurant at 15. Fortunately they still served us and were we glad we rushed there. What an amazing meal.

Warm welcome at the door and very cosy atmosphere, with the decor inspired by the traditional Portuguese cellars and wine making processes (outside seating also available).
Great selection of appetisers with lots of known flavours to the Portuguese taste.
The main courses were absolutely delicious. The meat is queen here and it was cooked medium rare to perfection.
The octopus was fresh, tender and succulent.
The portions will not disappoint and follow the Portuguese rule that you must leave the table feeling like you don't need to eat for a week.
Most of the recipes were kept traditional, but some twists were given to side dishes, like the orange salad, which was actually very refreshing, providing some flavour balance and palate cleansing.
Extensive wine list, highlighting fine local wineries, but also expanded to other national options.
A must visit for visitors in the area and a staple for locals!

Really good, excellent quality food. Good price as well, excellent service.

We were advised where to pop in for dinner by the owner of a local prestigious farm - "Herdade da Embereza" - which hosts Large Events and also has a new "Horse Riding School" which is starting to be "noticed" as a quality one... Students of all ages are mounting Pure Lusitano Horses which are extremely well taken care of, classical music playing, for the enjoyment and nerve calming of both riders and horses, and an experienced horse Riding Instructor! We visited this amazing place so I could have a private Riding Lesson!
Coming back to "A Prensa", when we arrived at around 19h30, the restaurant was fully booked, however the "Hostess" who received us (which we found out later was the owner) ended up providing us the opportunity to have dinner indoors by moving an outdoor patio table and chairs into the restaurant. The temperatures in November are low, and it was quite cold outdoors!!!
This, did make an very positive impression on us, because the last thing we wanted was to drive more than 100km to get home, without a nice meal!
Now, when it came to service AND the quality of the meal, we were stunned! In the middle of the countryside, near Alenquer, to find not only a 5 star quality service with very attentive staff, was a refreshing surprise!!!
We chose a cut of meat for 2, which came served in a wood plank, meat juices running from the meat, accompanied by proper home made fries and a wet bean rice ("arroz malandro com feijão encarnado") and "migas"(a mix of green leafy Portuguese cabbage and corn bread crumbs)!!!
The wine list was very acceptable too. We chose a Douro wine, but you also have a good choice of wines from this region of Ribatejo, but all other Portuguese unique wine regions were available too.
And finally, the deserts were home made, and we swallowed - even when we thought we had no more space in our bellies - a very generous portion of the walnut cake with egg base cream, and finishing this meal with a typical short portuguese coffee!
We left completely satisfied, to continue our journey back home to "Quinta de EVORAMONTE" (which is a "Casa da Campo/Rural Tourism", located in the heart of Alentejo!).

We certainly will recommend, and return again, as it truly was, simply put, a quality gastronomical experience!!!

Well done to this couple of entrepreneurs, who embarked in this challenging personal project of developing and running this great quality Restaurant, having not only "survived", but are now again thriving, despite the several months imposed long closures of all restaurants in 2020/21, and present enormously challenging restrictions imposed by the Portuguese Government, during this difficult pandemic times...

Wow wasn't expected such a quality tasty meat.
But most important in this restaurant is the stuff which is very friendly and kind to suggest you a good meal and wine, is what we need anyway 🤗

In general is a good place to spend a dinner with a friend or family

The best meat I haver tasted in Portugal.

Excellent local food! brought by my driver. Highly recommended if u can find it

Excellent meat, great value for money

Extraordinary
Amazing family restaurant

Best steak I've had in Portugal!

Nice place to eat homemade portuguese food. Nice codfish...

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O restaurante é enorme, distribuindo as mesas por vários edifícios rústicos, bem como um grande esplanada. Ainda assim, é recomendável reservar, e normalmente pedem para chegar cedo (12h00).
As carnes são muito boas e a quantidade que érecomenda-se por pessoa na carta é mais do que suficiente, mas devo realçar também os acompanhamentos, muito variados e para todos os gostos, incluídos com a tábua que se escolha.
No que toca a sobremesas, deverá ter sido um dos sítios com maior variedade que já vi. O pessoal é muito simpático e acolhedor, em geral o ambiente é muito aconchegante no interior.
O preço com tudo ronda neste momento os 30€ por pessoa.