BAR FONTINHA

Wow! What a place! Close to the Torre Praia hotel, on the main road, is an authentic Portuguese tasca. Here, you can enjoy the mighty regional poncha that Agostinho, a multilingual gentleman barman, has been preparing for 40 years... except on Sundays, when he goes to church. There's no TV here, just 70s music played on a transistor. The ultra-local clientele chats with a few tourists happy to have discovered this tavern from another era: Be careful, don't drink more than two of Agostinho's ponchas or you'll leave on all fours!