Where to eat at and around Hotel Madeira

Within ten minutes on foot

• Restaurante dos Combatentes

  2 min walk

  Madeiran cooking, family run · €€

  Two minutes away, beside the Jardim Municipal, a plain, family-run dining room that is busy at lunch with people who work nearby. Order what the island eats: espada, the black scabbard fish, grilled octopus, and espetada, beef on a skewer, with a passion fruit mousse or the crème brûlée to finish if it has not sold out. Portions are large and prices everyday. Open Monday to Friday from 11:45 to 15:30 and 18:00 to 22:30, Saturday dinner only, closed on Sunday. Book for dinner, as it is small and busy.

  Reserve aheadRua de São Francisco 1, Funchal

• 1811 Bistro & Wine Bar

  3 min walk

  Wine bar in Blandy's Wine Lodge · €€€

  Inside Blandy's Wine Lodge, the historic Madeira wine house on Rua de São Francisco, a bistro with room for 26, serving tapas and dishes drawn from Portuguese and French cooking, with a wide choice of wine by the glass or bottle. This is the place to try Madeira wine with food. Lunch is a short express menu, dinner is à la carte, and from 18:30 you can eat on the patio by candlelight. Open Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 22:00, Saturday from 18:00 to 22:00, closed on Sunday. Book, since there are few seats.

  Reserve aheadRua de São Francisco 12, Funchal

• The Ritz Madeira

  3 min walk

  Grand café on the garden · €€

  One of Funchal's oldest grand cafés, on Avenida Arriaga opposite the Jardim Municipal, more than a hundred years old and known for the hand-painted tiles of old Madeira scenes inside and out. Take a table on the esplanade or the first-floor terrace, both over the garden with the mountains behind, for Madeira cakes, homemade gelato in 32 flavours, a glass of Madeira wine or a cocktail. Afternoon tea is served every day from 13:30 to 16:30 and should be booked; on Saturday nights the upstairs restaurant has a cabaret dinner show.

  Walk inAvenida Arriaga 33, Funchal

• Café do Teatro

  3 min walk

  Café and cocktail bar by the theatre · €€

  Next to the Teatro Baltazar Dias on Avenida Arriaga, a café by day and a cocktail bar by night, known in town for its cocktails. Sit out on the terrace for a drink before or after dinner, or on the interior patio, where DJs play on some nights. It opens for breakfast and stays open late, so it also works for a coffee on the way out in the morning. No booking needed.

  Walk inAvenida Arriaga, Funchal

• Ákua

  5 min walk

  Fish and seafood, in the MICHELIN Guide · €€€

  Chef Júlio Pereira's fish restaurant in the old streets below the Sé, a few metres from the sea, and listed in the MICHELIN Guide Portugal. Start with plates to share, such as the cod tacos, the tuna cornetto or smoked espada with banana and passion fruit, then the braised tuna with razor clam rice or the market fish; the creamy carabineiro and seafood rice is for two. Sit at the counter to watch the kitchen. Open every day from 12:30 to 23:00. Book.

  Reserve aheadRua dos Murças 6, Funchal

• Kampo

  8 min walk

  Meat and island produce, open kitchen · €€€

  Júlio Pereira's other restaurant, a few streets on from Ákua, built around meat and the produce of the island's farms, cooked in a kitchen open to the room. Share the starters, such as the beef tartare with mushrooms and egg yolk or the foie gras with banana and passion fruit, then a matured chuletón or T-bone for the table, or the black rice with octopus and prawns. Finish with a dessert and a glass of Madeira wine, which the menu pairs with each one. Lunch and dinner every day; book.

  Reserve aheadRua da Alfândega 74, Funchal

• Loja do Chá

  9 min walk

  Tea house for breakfast and brunch · €

  A tea house and tea shop on the yellow-painted square of Rua do Sabão, near the Sé, open since 2003, with about 130 teas and infusions, many of them its own blends. Come for a late breakfast or brunch: scones, homemade cakes, toasts, salads and sandwiches, with a pot of tea chosen from the shelves. Open from morning until early evening; Sunday hours vary by source, so check before going that day. No booking.

  Walk inRua do Sabão 33-35, Funchal

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