Restaurante Pescador (Santiago)
Cape Verde
Copyright: Andrey Bayda / Shutterstock.comRestaurante Pescador (Santiago)
As part of the Boutique Hotel Pescador, this restaurant is a step up in quality from most establishments in the country, in terms of ambience and quality on par with fine dining at any great European capital. The extensive menu features always fresh fish, as well as local wines from Fogo island.
Dining
Seafood abounds in Cape Verde, with delicacies like grilled lobster, tuna, and octopus featuring on most menus, as well as Creole and Portuguese specialities. The most representative typical dish is the 'cachupa' (pictured above), a filling mix of maize, beans, sweet potato and chicken or meat. The larger towns offer an increasingly wide variety of restaurants and cuisines, but on smaller islands, many places will be limited to the lunch of the day ('prato do dia'), which usually includes the freshest catches. Here are the top places to eat while in Cape Verde: