Algarve food and drink experiences

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Like much of Portugal, the food of the Algarve is based on fresh, local and seasonal ingredients that create wonderfully flavourful and satisfying food. Experience it through cooking classes and tastings, sitting down to a table laden with food that you helped to prepare, wandering produce markets or trying out traditional techniques.

Cooking Class & Dinner at the farm

With a picture-perfect backdrop of a traditional farmhouse, get hands on in the kitchen with a local family to prepare a three course meal, full of rich local flavours. Start with a tour of the farm, passing through the organic gardens to pick fresh ingredients. Then you’ll be guided through the preparation and cooking of traditional recipes, sitting down in a beautiful setting to eat the meal you have prepared, alongside some fresh bread and local wine.

LOCATION: Monte do Á lamo

MEETING TIME:  17:00

DURATION: 5hrs

MAXIMUM GROUP SIZE: 12 people

FROM PRICE: £130 per person (based on 4-12 people)

Cooking Class & Lunch (and guided visit to Tavira Market)

Learn to cook traditional recipes full of local flavour in a cosy farmhouse kitchen. Before the cooking begins, take a stroll through Tavira Market to see the range of local produce before picking fresh vegetable and herbs from the farm’s gardens. You’ll then be guided through the recipes and involved in the preparation every step of the way, discussing and tasting as you go, before sitting down to eat the fruits of your labour in the gorgeous rural setting.

LOCATION: Tavira Market

MEETING TIME: 09:00

MAXIMUM GROUP SIZE: 12 people 

FROM PRICE: £155 per person (based on 4-12 people)

Taste Algarve -Cooking Class of Bread and Roasts in a wood burning oven & lunch

In the homely atmosphere of a traditional farmhouse, learn to make traditional bread and prepare a delicious lunch, all cooked in an authentic wood-fired oven. You’ll be involved in all stages of the meal, making, kneading and shaping the dough for the bread, and preparing the ingredients for a roast. As it all goes into the oven, sit back and savour the delicious smells, before it is all laid out on a beautifully set table to be enjoyed.

LOCATION: Monte do Á lamo

MEETING TIME:  09:00

DURATION: 5hrs

MAXIMUM GROUP SIZE: 12 people

FROM PRICE: £155 per person (based on 4- 12 people)

Dinner at the Farm

Discover the rich and delicious flavours of a home cooked Portuguese dinner in the magical setting of a family farmhouse. As you sip an aperitif looking out over a rural panorama, your meal will be prepared from organic, local produce plus ingredients from the family gardens. Served al fresco alongside bread and olives and local wine, you’ll share the meal with the family and other guests around a warm and friendly communal table.

LOCATION: Monte do Á lamo

MEETING TIME:  19:30

MAXIMUM GROUP SIZE: 4 people

FROM PRICE: £65 per person

Private Cooking Class with dinner at the farm

Enjoy an immersive private cooking class, following your ingredients from farm-to-table before indulging in a delicious dinner that you helped to prepare! The experience begins with a tour of the farm, where you can harvest fresh ingredients from the gardens. Then it’s into the farmhouse kitchen to prepare and cook local recipes, guided step by step by your host. You’ll sit down to eat in a gorgeous setting, savouring the flavours and the memories you’ve made as you eat.

LOCATION: Monte do Á lamo

MEETING TIME:  17:00

DURATION: 5hrs

MAXIMUM GROUP SIZE: 24 people

FROM PRICE: £130 per person (based on 13-24 people)

 

Private Cooking Class with lunch (and guided visit to Tavira Market)

This private cooking experience in the beautiful rural setting of a traditional farmhouse, will help you appreciate the wonderfully rich flavours and fresh ingredients of Portuguese cuisine. You’ll start with a wander through the bustling Tavira Market, before heading to the farm to pick vegetables from the gardens. In the kitchen you’ll be guided through the preparation and cooking of traditional recipes. You’ll end up with a delicious three course feast which you can devour al fresco.

LOCATION: Monte do Á lamo

MEETING TIME:  09:00

DURATION: 5hrs

MAXIMUM GROUP SIZE: 24 people

FROM PRICE: £155 per person (based on 13-24 people)