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  <title><![CDATA[Cupola Plus]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Cupola Plus is a seasonal Portuguese restaurant in Cascais. Fresh fish from the harbour, honest cooking, a terrace for summer evenings. Book a table today.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The terrace is fully open and the summer menu is up]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[As of the first week of July the terrace is set up for evening service and we have updated the menu to reflect what is coming in from the farms and the harbour. A few notes on what to expect this summer, and why we added a cold soup for the first time.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-07-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[We tried something new for the June tasting menu]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The June Friday and Saturday tasting menus used a new structure. Fewer courses, more generous portions, and a single wine pairing focused entirely on wines from the Setubal peninsula. Here is what we learned and whether it will continue.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to order fish in a Portuguese restaurant]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most visitors to Portugal read the word 'peixe do dia' on a menu and assume it is a marketing phrase. It is not. In a restaurant that is buying from a harbour market each morning, the fish of the day is genuinely different from yesterday's fish, which was different from the day before. Here is how to read what is on offer and why it matters.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-28</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Caldeirada: the dish behind the dish]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Caldeirada is the dish that confuses tourists and satisfies locals. It looks simple. Fish, potatoes, tomatoes, olive oil. And it is, in the sense that good cooking is always simple underneath the technique. But the decisions made before the pot goes on the heat are where the dish lives or dies.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[A beginner's guide to Portuguese wine regions]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Portugal has more native grape varieties than France. Most people who drink wine regularly do not know this, because Portuguese wine spent decades being sold abroad as cheap and cheerful. That has changed. The regions worth knowing now are genuinely interesting, and the prices have not yet caught up with the quality in most of them.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-09</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to plan a group dinner in Cascais]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Group dinners have a way of going wrong not because the restaurant is bad but because the organisation beforehand was vague. A table of eight or more has different needs from a table of two, and the restaurants that handle them well have usually worked out a system. Here is what to ask and what to sort out before you confirm.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-17</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Eating seasonally in Portugal: a month-by-month guide]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Portugal's growing season is long and varied. The Atlantic climate in the west, the continental heat in the Alentejo, and the altitude of the interior mean that produce comes in at different times depending on where it is grown. This is not a theoretical guide to seasonality. It is based on what actually arrives at the restaurants and markets in the Lisbon region through the year.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-02-20</pubDate>
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