O Castelo, restaurant of Adega Algueira

O Castelo is the restaurant of Adega Algueira, the family winery in Doade, in Sober, and it stands next to it, on the Francos road, among the terraces of the Lugo bank of the Sil. A stone dining room, a covered terrace looking over the valley and a bar with the house bottles. The cooking is inland Galician, of stews and oven dishes, designed to go with Algueira's wines. It opens at midday only.

From the tixola to Caurel kid

To start, the Galician caldo with turnip tops costs €12, the tixola of broken eggs with Celtic pork chorizo, €20, and the home-made mushroom and nut croquettes, €18 for a portion of six. There is also Galician-style scallop, at €15 each, Galician duck ham or crunchy prawns. For a main course, low-temperature roast Caurel kid is the most expensive dish on the menu, at €30. For €24 there are the milk-fed veal shank in mencía, the wild boar in wine sauce and the oxtail cannelloni with béchamel and truffle; the Lourenzá beans with octopus and prawns and the monkfish cheeks with cockles cost €25. For dessert, at €6, warm filloas or chestnuts with biscuit and chocolate; the pear in Algueira wine with bica, at €5.

The menu drunk with the winery

The wine-tourism menu costs €49 per person, with bread, water and coffee. It is a set menu, and they only adapt it for intolerances: scallop with a house blanc de noirs, beans with a young mencía, oxtail cannelloni with a crianza and the chestnut dessert with Paquito, a medium-sweet wine. It is the same one included in the winery's wine-tourism days, so if you do the tasting at Adega Algueira that morning, you eat with the wines you have just met.

Children and vegetarians

There is a children's menu for ages 2 to 12, for €25: artisan chicken cachopo with fried egg and chips, cake of the day, bread and water or a soft drink. For those who eat neither meat nor fish, the house vegetarian dish is mushroom-filled ravioli in cheese sauce, at €24.

Table, hours and payment

Open every day except Wednesday, from 13:00 to 15:30. Book a table on the winery website, by email at [email protected] or on 982 41 02 99. Nothing is paid when booking: each person chooses at the restaurant what to eat and drink and pays there on the day.

The boat and the meal, a step away

The A Abeleda boats leave a few kilometres away, going down the Doade hill and crossing the bridge. With the 11:00 departure of the Río Sil catamaran or with the winery's own Brandán II you reach the table at opening time. That day of boat, winery and meal is in the plan Sunday of boat and wineries in the Sil canyon.