Zé Manuel dos Ossos
As a student town for centuries, Coimbra is filled with backstreet taverns serving hearty, cut-price cooking. This is perhaps the most famous, serving up the likes of roast baby goat (cabrito asado no forno), bean stew with wild boar (feijoada de javali) or ribs with beans and rice (ossos com arroz de feijão). It's tiny, cramped and you'll probably have to stand in line to get in because they don't take reservations. But a meal squashed in beneath the hundreds of messages of appreciation stuck to the walls by grateful students—along with other oddities like a bespectacled stuffed boar's head and an alligator hanging from the ceiling—will undoubtedly be a memorable occasion. A half portion (meia dose) will normally more than suffice for one hungry person.
As a student town for centuries, Coimbra is filled with backstreet taverns serving hearty, cut-price cooking. This is perhaps the most famous, serving up the likes of roast baby goat (cabrito asado no forno), bean stew with wild boar (feijoada de javali) or ribs with beans and rice (ossos com arroz de feijão). It's tiny, cramped and you'll probably have to stand in line to get in because they don't take reservations. But a meal squashed in beneath the hundreds of messages of appreciation stuck to the walls by grateful students—along with other oddities like a bespectacled stuffed boar's head and an alligator hanging from the ceiling—will undoubtedly be a memorable occasion. A half portion (meia dose) will normally more than suffice for one hungry person.
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