A guide written by two people who eat here

Claire eats out four times a week and writes most of what you read here. She moved from Lyon to Lagoa in 2019, spent two seasons in a kitchen in Ferragudo to find out whether she should be writing about them at all, and decided she should.

She keeps the restaurant list, makes the second visits, and is the reason one of the three badges in this guide carries her name.

Maria grew up in Olhão and knows which of the market stalls to trust in August. She runs the magazine itself: 196 pages, one printer in Loulé, and 140 pick-up points that all have to be visited in the same fortnight every spring.

She handles the venues that stock the guide, the restaurants that advertise in it, and the line between the two, which she is strict about.