A Túlipa - Leicester


Service is very friendly, Portuguese TV is generally on. The decoration is simple but traditional and you feel very welcome. It's a family type of restaurant. With a great amount of Portuguese living in the area, the restaurant is also the café where everyone hangs out for a beer and coffee, meet up and watch the football games.


The food was well cooked. We chose different dishes (Carne de porco à alentejana, Entremeada and Bitoque) and it all tasted exactly right. The amount of food served was very good.





It was a shame they didn't have draft beer available the couple of times we went there, but at least Super Bock was available in bottle. Other refreshments also available like Sumol.
Desserts can be "baba de camelo" or "arroz doce" and were very good. They probably change ever now and then.
Prices per dish range are arounf 8 to 9 £ and there is a good variety. Considering the taste, in the likes of a "Portuguese tasca", and the amount of food served, it is well worth it.
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Address: 279 Loughborough Road, Leicester. LE4 5LH
Telephone: 0116 223 0217
E-mail: n/a
Classification: 4/5
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Portugal Mini Market - Leicester


Service is very attentious and can be delivered in English or Portuguese.

Here are some products/brands you can get there:
- Water (Portuguese brands)
- Tang (juice in powder)
- Nestum (cereals)
- Cerelac (cereals)
- Cigala (rice)
- Compal (several canned food like beans)
- UCAL (chocolate milk)
- Mimosa (milk)
- Mimosa (cream packets)
- Parmalat (béchamel sauce)
- bolachas Maria (cookies from Maria confection style)
- Croquetes
- Rissóis de camarão
- Pastéis de bacalhau
- frozen Caldo Verde (cabbage for Caldo Verde soup)
- a selection of frozen fish, seafood and meat (including picanha, from Brazil)
- Fula (oil) and Gallo (olive oil) available in 1 litre bottles. Other brands may be available in 5 litre bottles (better call first to check availability).
- Milhafre and Mimosa (butter)
- a selection of cheese, smoke-cured sausage (paio) and chorizo
- Tremoços (lupini beans) in water or airtight bags, and olives
- Broa de milho and pão alentejano, frozen (bread specialities)
- seasoning herbs and chillies
- Bolas de Neve (sweets)
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Address: 52-54 Catherine Street, LE4 6BB, Leicester
Telephone: 011 6261 1625
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"Piri-Piri Starfish - Portugal found"


Piri Piri Starfish: Portugal Found is a book about Portuguese cuisine, by Tessa Kiros. Language: English. Cover price: 25 £. Can be found cheaper at some stores.

Piri Piri is a hot chilli pepper, originally from Angola and embraced by the Portuguese who use it in many dishes.

Tessa Kiros believes that food is the essence of any country’s people, a quilt that is patchworked together with their language, culture and songs. When she takes her family to live and travel in Portugal, she is captivated by the country and charmed by the old-fashioned way of doing things.

Portugal has everything she loves — the markets, the sea and the beautiful old pousadas — but she would have gone for the pastéis de nata alone.
In Piri Piri Starfish: Portugal Found, Tessa embroiders the recipes, traditions and Portuguese way of living together with her own unique colours and threads. Some of the present-day wonder of this small country can be attributed to its great history during the Age of Discovery: when the world beyond nearby lands and seas was little more than a mysterious dream to most Europeans, this land of bay leaves, bacalhau and piri piri stretched out its roots over the globe.

Tessa’s beautiful writing conveys a wonderful sense of place and will take you deep into the world of Portugal, its people and its food. Learn the methods and history of traditional dishes such as the salt cod, coriander, garlic and bread soup, and grilled chicken piri piri served with baked butter rice. Try the espetada (beef kebabs) with bay leaves which can be spiced up by adding some crushed herbs to the marinade, and Tessa’s mixed salad is the perfect accompaniment to the fish grill with lemon oil. And, of course, no meal is complete without some pastéis de nata (Portuguese tarts) for dessert!

With captivating photography and beautiful design by Tessa’s creative team from across the globe, Piri Piri Starfish: Portugal Found offers recipes for the whole family, encapsulating the European way of eating and providing inspiration with its beauty.

(text by Murdoch Books; reviewed & proofread by Cassandra666)
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De Sousa's - Southampton


Situated very close to the seaside, in Southampton, it has a very friendly service. The decoration is not in the traditional Portuguese style but you feel very welcome.

There is Portuguese and Brazilian music in the background, and in some evenings there is even have Fado music live.


The food was well cooked but the dish we chose - Carne de porco à alentejana - didn't exactly taste Portuguese. We felt that despite being well cooked, it was a bit adapted to the English taste. Also, the amount of food served was very little.

Well worth it though for the bread (broa de milho), the fresh draught beer (Sagres) and the Portuguese custard (pastel de nata) served warm which tasted wonderful. They also have a very nice selection of Portuguese wines.

Prices per dish range between 8 and 10 £. Considering the amount of food served, it is a bit more expensive than we anticipated but the location, being very touristy, has to be taken into account.
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 Address: 11 Canute Road, Southampton, SO14 3FH
Telephone: 023 8063 4177
E-mail: info@desousas.co.uk
Homepage: http://www.desousas.co.uk/
Classification: 3.5/5
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