Restaurante Central dos Leitões

If you are looking for a good "pig" plate, it is a restaurant that you can find... But not every days! It really depend on the queues and on the service.The starters were salty and when the pig arrived it was not completely hot.It is always expansive to eat this kind of food but... Value for food? In my opinion it is to expansive for what you get.Just one waiter getting all the tables and some kids delivering the food.

A year ago, we were invited for dinner at this place.A couple of days before that, we had been in the Bairrada region where this way of preparing baby pigs originated.I was afraid the one at Charneca would not be as good as the one from Bairrada.I was wrong!Central dos Leitões cooks and serves piglets that are as good as those at the best Bairrada restaurants.It is a quite simple restaurant but it has two huge advantages: air conditionoing and a large private parking.With the meal, since its start, I recommend their light white sparkling wine.In most Portuguese restaurants, tourists avoid accepting the appetizers because they are charged on the bill.At Central dos Leitões I recommend that you accept at least the piglet spread. It is a home made sort of delicious mousse. On a piece of local bread, it is really nice.Friendly service.

They do other food but essentially this place is about roast suckling pig (leitão a Bairrada) and not a lot else. The meat is cooked fresh in a wood, pizza type, oven. Served with fat thick potato crisps and salad. The local wines are fine. The service is friendly. Enough English among the staff to manage (I speak Portuguese).It is an awkward bus journey from Cacilhas if you start from Lisbon, easier in a car or a cab.We have been for several lunches and also early in the evening. No idea what it is like when busy.

Resumindo: é complicado ir à Bairrada ou a Amarante para comer leitão bem assado e 'detrás da orelha '?Uma viagem de 35 minutos à 'outra margem ' mata qualquer sapeira. Cada dose tem 6 a 7 pedaços bem medidos, 3 mãos bem servidas de batatinhas fritas na hora e as duas doses ficaram a menos de 30.Por gulodice juntamos uma mousse caseira com brandy, algo que nunca tinha provado, e que achei bem interessante €3).Para mim é um 4/5, só peca pela demora na entrega, pois tem muito MUITO movimento, mesmo ligando com antecedência.

O leitão é bom, bom, bom! Com aquela pele estaladiça e a carne muito tenra!O espaço não é o mais bonito do mundo mas o serviço é muito simpático!