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Tacho da Memória

Odivelas

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Tacho da Memória is a Portuguese restaurant at Rua Francisco Relvas Marques 2, 2675-218 Odivelas, in the Odivelas neighbourhood. It is closed on Mondays. From Tuesday to Saturday it opens for lunch from 12:00 to 15:00 and again for dinner from 19:00 to 22:30. On Sundays it serves lunch only, from 12:00 to 15:00. A report in the NiT publication says the restaurant had been serving quality Portuguese food in Odivelas for 14 years. It describes the restaurant as one of the best-known in the city. Rui Dantas, who was 49 at the time, calls it a typical Portuguese restaurant. He runs the project with his wife, Manuela Dantas. She spent 18 years working at the Lapa Palace hotel in Lisbon, and he also has a background in hospitality, with experience in several hotel restaurants. Two years before the article, the couple opened another place in Odivelas called À Mesa, where the menu is devoted more to risottos. The article reports that in early June the restaurant gained a second location in Parque das Nações, in Lisbon. Rui Dantas said it was the right moment to expand and reach the capital. The couple had looked at other parts of the city, but Parque das Nações seemed the most suitable. The works took several months. The menu and the decoration there are very similar to those in Odivelas. The new space has two indoor rooms, one with 50 seats and one for 45 people, which suits groups better. A terrace adds another 50 chairs. The article lists dishes from the Parque das Nações menu, which it says matches Odivelas. Starters include tomato soup with a poached egg at 3.90€, seafood cream with prawn at 4.20€, and clams Bulhão Pato at 14€. Main courses include monkfish cheeks with turnip-top migas and garlic at 11.50€, cod with broa at 11.70€, octopus à lagareiro with fried onion at 13.90€, and prawn açorda at 11.20€. There is also beef loin with a cream and mushroom sauce at 14.90€. At lunchtime the Parque das Nações restaurant always offers a dish of the day, with one meat option and one fish option that are not on the regular menu but follow the same concept. Prices there vary with the ingredients used. The article gives an average spend of between 20€ and 30€ at that location. Rui Dantas names arroz à lagareiro as his favourite dish. To win over new guests, he invites them to try the restaurant's cooking and its way of working in the kitchen.

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