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Grupo São Bento has refreshed the summer menus at Café de São Bento Cascais, Corleone Ristorante al Mare and Bougain Cascais – and there are petiscos, pasta, seafood, grilled dishes and fresh desserts to add to your route.
Café de São Bento Cascais
In the heart of Cascais’ historic centre, Café de São Bento Cascais is welcoming summer with seasonal dishes that sit nicely alongside the famous house steak. Opened in April 2025, the restaurant brought to town the timeless atmosphere of the original Rua de São Bento address, with velvet interiors, tall windows and a terrace that seems made for stretching out lunches and late afternoons.
The new menu looks to Portuguese flavours with sharing in mind. To start, and following plenty of customer requests, the couvert now includes croquettes served with mustard (€2.50 each). Among the starters, peixinhos da horta with tartare sauce (€10) offer a fresh take on one of Portugal’s most recognisable petiscos, ideal for picking at slowly. For mains, the new arrival comes from the coast: John Dory fillets with tomato rice (€25), a light, crisp and comforting combination that makes perfect sense at this time of year. And, of course, the steak is not going anywhere. Quite the opposite: it gets special attention in its grilled version, available as tenderloin (€27), sirloin and entrecôte (€25), a lighter alternative that still keeps the identity that has made Café de São Bento a reference for more than four decades.
Rua Alexandre Herculano 71, Cascais. 964 871 833
Corleone Ristorante al Mare
On Cascais bay, Corleone heads into summer with a new menu signed by chef Nuno Tomé. The approach remains faithful to vera cucina italiana, but now with fresher, more maritime suggestions, from antipasti to dolci. Among the antipasti, there is a new filling for the arancini: crisp tomato risotto, mozzarella and a lightly spicy arrabbiata sauce (€12). In the primi, the sea takes centre stage with three new dishes. Spaghettone alla Puttanesca brings together tomato sauce, anchovies, Kalamata olives and capers (€22); Spaghetti al Nero di Seppia con Frutti di Mare combines squid ink, prawns, clam meat and shellfish cream (€26); and Tortelloni di Gamberi features fresh pasta filled with prawn mousse scented with lemon zest, shellfish cream and chopped fresh tomato (€20).
For sharing, there is the Bistecca di Manzo, a grilled beef rib seasoned with sea salt flakes and served with grilled cherry tomatoes (€55 for two). Dessert has not been overlooked either: the Meringata ai Frutti Rossi brings together strawberries, raspberries and blueberries with whipped cream, mascarpone and vanilla (€12).
Rua Fernandes Thomás 1, Cascais. 964 236 029
Bougain Cascais
At Bougain Restaurant & Garden Bar, chef Diana Roque presents new dishes built around seasonal flavours, fresh ingredients and classic references from Portuguese, French and Italian cooking.
The new additions begin with the crudos, including lightly cured sliced tuna served with orange, capers and citrus dressing (€18). Among the starters, there is burrata with an Algarve-inspired salad of cucumber, red pepper, onion and tomato (€17), and an Alentejo-inspired gazpacho with diced cucumber, tomato and red pepper (€15). For sharing, the Bougain seafood plateau is one of those ideas that is hard to refuse on a summer terrace: half a lobster, Portuguese-style stuffed crab, oysters, pickled mussels and boiled coastal prawns, served with aioli, cocktail sauce and vinaigrette, plus toasts and buttered toast (€80).
Among the fish dishes, there is Provençal-style tuna with red pepper and black olives (€32), and roasted octopus with hummus, grilled vegetables and romesco sauce (€29). On the meat side, the new arrival is black pork plumas with apricot and mustard-seed coleslaw and crisps (€29). To finish, there is rum baba with wild berries and ice cream (€10), Madeira banana mille-feuille with cocoa and caramel ice cream (€12), and an éclair with pistachio ice cream and salted caramel ganache (€12). As for drinks, count on three new cocktails by Manuel Frazão: Aged Negroni, Flower Cooler and Pablito.
Avenida Valbom 13, Cascais. 914 768 826