It's on a trip through the Algarve, from the sea to the mountains, that chef Alípio Branco transports customers from ‘Casa Velha’, na Quinta do Lago. A fresh and delicious menu, inspired by Algarve products and ingredients, served in an elegant and sophisticated way, paired with wines from the best harvests.
Recognized for its fine dining and recommended by the Michelin Guide 2020, this restaurant, that maintains a strong reputation at the resort, ambitious to flaunt 1 star in 2021, in the world's most famous restaurant guide.
Casa Velha was the first gastronomic place of Quinta do Lago, the place where it all started. It was from this farmhouse that, em 1972, the then visionary André Jordan, idealized what has been the Quinta do Lago resort, whose master plan remains intact.
In this fine restaurant with an unquestionable legacy, the chef Alípio Branco, who runs the ‘Casa Velha’ kitchen since 2018, refined the à la carte menu with tempting and handcrafted dishes with fresh flavors, local and seasonal, that surprise every moment and allow an impressive culinary experience, tempting and made with passion and magic. Accompanied by a Portuguese-French pastry chef, that the most delicious and refined desserts come out of your hands, with elegant touches from both countries. Even the dishes, very refined, was the subject of investment last year, thus helping to highlight this author's cuisine. Kitchen creativity is the center of the stage.
At the ‘Casa Velha restaurant, the kitchen is elegant and challenging and as it couldn't be, as in the entire luxury resort of Quinta do Lago, in Almancil (Algarve) the client is predominantly British.
For making dishes, ‘Casa Velha’ has seasonal vegetables and herbs from Quinta do Lago organic farm, a Q Farm, que, organically, produces seasonal products for 12 resort restaurants year-round. Casa Velha's chef created a fresh and delicious menu, inspired by Algarve products and ingredients.
– The whole team is safe and secure in order to achieve the first Michelin star, confided to chef Alípio, who received a round of applause from the journalists who participated, the weekend (3 e 4) in the second edition of the Quinta do Lago Gastronomic Tour, project started last year with the aim of showing the best that exists in the resort in terms of catering, with several tasting periods.
Chef Alípio Branco has worked with Michelin-starred restaurants in Portugal and Germany, so being experienced in the top restaurant service. Casa Velha is, assim, an attractive challenge due to the symbolism it presents in the history of Quinta do Lago.
Opção Turismo plans to present the entire report tomorrow.
