Where to eat at and around VidaMar Resort Hotel Madeira

Within ten minutes on foot

• Chalet Vicente

  3 min walk

  Portuguese dinner house with a wine cellar · €€€

  A Funchal name across the road, reinvented in the same house as a more intimate restaurant of traditional Portuguese cooking, with a wine cellar, a private wine club, private rooms, a cigar lounge and a chef's counter. Come for a long dinner for two on the babysitting night, sit at the chef's counter if you can, and let the cellar lead. Open every day from 19:00 to midnight; book through the restaurant's own site or by phone on +351 291 765 818.

  Reserve aheadEstrada Monumental 238, Funchal

• Atlantic

  4 min walk

  Seafront restaurant and bar · €€

  Next door to the hotel and close to the sea, a relaxed place for a sunset drink or an easy dinner. The cooking is Mediterranean with Madeiran dishes, and the one to order is milho cozido with cebolada de espada: soft cornmeal with black scabbardfish in an onion sauce, a dish almost every Madeiran loves. It suits the evenings when no one wants to dress for dinner. Open every day from 10:00 to 22:00; ring 291 761 703 for a table at sunset.

  Walk inEstrada Monumental 179, Funchal

• Avista

  6 min walk

  Mediterranean restaurant over the sea, in the MICHELIN Guide · €€€

  The restaurant of Les Suites at The Cliff Bay, listed in the MICHELIN Guide, with the coast and the Atlantic laid out in front of its indoor and outdoor tables. The kitchen works under Benoît Sinthon with produce from PortoBay's own garden: comfort food, petiscos, vegetarian dishes and two tasting menus, and there is a children's menu. Lunch is from 12:00 to 16:30, afternoon tea from 15:00 to 17:00 and dinner from 18:00 to 21:30. Booking is advised: +351 291 707 770.

  Reserve aheadEstrada Monumental 145, Funchal

• Cá Te Espero

  7 min walk

  Madeiran meat and fish, with a terrace · €€

  The Lido's table for Madeiran cooking, a short climb up from Estrada Monumental: meat and fish prepared the way the island prepares them, in a rustic room or out on the terrace. It is the easy family dinner of the list, a step down in price from the hotel's own restaurants, with a good wine selection. It gets busy at the peak of the evening, so book or go early; ring +351 291 765 096.

  Reserve aheadRua da Casa Branca 40, Funchal

• Afternoon tea at Reid's Palace

  9 min walk

  Afternoon tea on a terrace over the sea · €€€€

  Something only Funchal does: afternoon tea on the Tea Terrace of Reid's Palace, the cliff-top hotel that opened in 1891, a tradition it is proud to keep. Finger sandwiches, scones baked that day and local pastries, with a choice of 38 teas or a glass of champagne, and the bay below. It is open to non-residents, served daily between 14:00 and 18:00 at two seatings, 14:30 and 16:30, with a smart casual dress code. Book ahead on +351 291 71 71 71.

  Book well ahead: tables go weeks outEstrada Monumental 139, Funchal

• William

  10 min walk

  One MICHELIN star, at Reid's Palace · €€€€

  The one-star dining room of Reid's Palace, named after its founder, with full-length windows on the Funchal coast. Two tasting menus, William and Discovery, set the island's produce against modern technique: fish from the coast, lamb with mushrooms and sweet potato, and a São Tomé chocolate dessert. Dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday from 19:00 to 23:00. Book well ahead, and keep it for a night when the children are asleep or in the babysitter's care.

  Book well ahead: tables go weeks outEstrada Monumental 139, Funchal

• Horta

  10 min walk

  Vegetable-led cooking, in the MICHELIN Guide · €€

  PortoBay's healthy comfort food restaurant at the Lido, listed in the MICHELIN Guide, where vegetables from the group's own garden are the stars of the menu but meat and fish are on it too. Order a few plates to share across the table; it suits families who eat differently, and anyone who has had enough of the buffet. Dinner only, Wednesday to Sunday from 18:30 to 22:00, indoors or on the terrace, with step-free access. Booking is advised: +351 291 708 710.

  Reserve aheadRua de Leichlingen 11, Funchal

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