Rosa's in Cascais, Portugal

Whilst we were in Lisbon, we decided to go to Cascais (pronounced 'Cashcaish'), a holiday resort, for a day trip by train, which departs from Cais do Sodre Station every 20 minutes. It takes about 40 minutes and the train runs along River Tejo to the West.

Once you get off the train, you just follow the crowds as everyone goes to the same direction walking through the pedestrian precinct with shops, restaurants - and quite a few Indian restaurants!

Religious shop selling figurines  - Josef, Mary and Jesus riding on a bike!

Even graffiti looks wonderful as wall art!

Walking through the paved street leads to the centre square with open view of the harbour....

Also notice a few British and Irish pubs ....

Look at the colour of the sky - pure blue without any clouds!!!

From here you walk along the promenade where you can see  sandy beach ....

... and boats, yachts and fishing boats beyond ...

Even King Carlos I is commanding a fine view ....

After that we walked around the town to explore a little bit whilst looking for a place for lunch ... of course, always thinking of food .... 

Portuguese tiles everywhere ... even for street signs ....

Being watched by a cat .....

Anyway, having consulted with my guidebook, we decided to try a seafood restaurant called Restorante O Pescador on R. das Flores near town's Fish Market. Unfortunately the restaurant was closed whilst the rest of other restraints were open with full of tourists. We could go into any of these restaurants however they were all in this rather narrow street with outside tables closed together without much of sea breeze coming through, we decided to look for somewhere with open space with nice breeze where we could sit outside.

Well, just as well, from R. das Flores we turned into Largo Cidade de Vitoria as that's where we found this cafe/bar/restaurant called Rosa's situated in a small quiet square.

 

 

 

 We sat outside, under the big tree that acts as a huge natural canopy ...

 

It was lovely and hot day but we picked the perfect table where we could sit, well shaded under this canopy with lovely sea breeze as natural fan to cool us down.

We ordered half bottle of vinho verde.... and what did we order for lunch?

I like the colour of table cloth, table mat, little flowers in the pot ....

.. Tuna Salad!  Nothing Portuguese about this but we thoroughly enjoyed this despite we originally had an intention to have good seafood meal at a proper seafood restaurant for lunch since we were a seaside resort.

And of course, we always have uma bica to finish off our meal!  Mmmmm.

I really like this table mat .....

After the relaxing lunch, we headed back to Lisbon by train again. We are not beach & sun bathing type people so this was fine for us however I can see attraction for people coming here for a quick day out from Lisbon for beach and seafood relaxation.  We did enjoy our day out to Cascais!

I envy people living in Lisbon - it's such a beautiful place with great food, great shopping, lots to see and do, with beautiful weather and now they even have easy access to lovely seaside resort within 40 minutes by regular train rides!  Not just that, I see from the train ever continuing clean and nice beach along River Tejo running parallel to the railway line, so they don't even need to travel that far from Lisbon for sunbathing.  Not that I like sunbathing (in fact I don't do sun bathing) however I do envy their good life ....

That's all forks!