Madeira.Vacations
Fruit and flower stalls at Funchal's Mercado dos Lavradores

Food & Restaurants

Madeiran cooking is straightforward and good: beef on a bay skewer, black scabbard fish with banana, limpets in garlic butter, and bolo do caco with garlic butter that arrives before you order it. Funchal has the range; the villages have the value.

Where to go

  • Mercado dos Lavradores

    Go early, be firm about tasting-plate pricing.

  • Câmara de Lobos

    Poncha bars and grilled fish by the fishing boats.

  • Santo António da Serra

    Weekend espetada country, inland and up high.

  • Madeira wine lodges

    Tastings in Funchal from Sercial to Malmsey.

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Guided options

Colourful produce stalls at Funchal's Mercado dos Lavradores
1.5 hours Funchal

Madeira Wine Cellar Tasting

A guided tasting through Sercial to Malmsey in a working Funchal lodge, explaining why the island's wine is aged the way it is.

from €25

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Funchal waterfront and old town at golden hour
4 hours Funchal

Funchal Old Town & Monte Tour

Painted doors of the Zona Velha, the market, then the cable car up to Monte and the wicker toboggan back down.

from €35

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