--- title: Semente url: https://santiagonature-hotel.guestcentric.net/en/semente-restaurant language: en is_homepage: false hotel: Santiago Hotel city: "Santiago do Cacém, Alentejo" country: Portugal phone: "+351 269 249 900" email: info@santiagohotel.pt --- [Hotel Logo](/m/en/) - [Rooms & Suites](/m/en/rooms) - [Semente](/m/en/semente-restaurant) - [Cooking Experience](/m/en/cooking) - [Christmas 2026](/m/en/christmas-2026) - [New Year's Eve 2026](/m/en/new-years-eve-2026) - [Discover & Relax](/m/en/discover-relax) - [Special Offers](/m/en/special-offers) - [Events and meetings](/m/en/events-and-meetings) [Book a table](mailto:email reservations@santiagohotel.pt) Social Scroll - [en](/m/en/semente-restaurant) - [fr](/m/fr/restaurant-semente) - [de](/m/de/semente) - [pt](/m/semente) - [es](/m/es/semente-restaurante) # Semente --- ## Alentejo cuisine, made by fire Here our daily inspirations comes from the Alentejo’s traditional products and forms of cooking. It is a huge region, which stretches from the wild and rebellious coast to the deepest inland areas, from the plains beyond the Guadiana, land of smugglers. --- ### Menu --- --- #### A great Alentejo cuisine With meals that invite you back to your roots. Led by Chef Hortense, this cuisine is forged by fire—in the wood-fired oven at Josper and, on milder spring and summer days, at Ofyr. #### Hortense's Table Sit down at the table and let yourself be carried away by the delicacies of our Hortense. Tasting of Alentejo dishes, with ingredients directly from our partners and from the season, respecting and promoting tradition and what nature offers us. --- --- --- #### We're Passionate Locals With the Iberean pork, the lamb, the cheeses and sausages, which we source from local producers. And with the aromatic herbs that grow in our garden and the bread, made daily in the wood-fired oven. But we also get carried away by the cadence of the Atlantic tides. The ocean is so close to us and brings us a wide variety of fresh fish, depending on the time of year. And then there are the goose barnacles clinging to the rocks on the beach and the spot where the ocean and the River Sado come together, creating the perfect habitat for razor, and other types of clams and oysters. --- #### Cooking with feeling We like to cook our food slowly, with feeling. We like the ingredients, the seasonings and the sauces to slowly blend and mingle in a union of intense flavours. This is also the history of this land's cuisine: a history of a melting pot gradually merging to become one and each bringing the very best that they had to the table. #### Traditional Alentejo dishes This gave rise to such special dishes as açorda (a type of bread “porridge”) and lamb stew, served over slices of rustic bread that soak up the cooking juices. But we want to share more than just cooking; we want everyone who visits us to join with us and savour these regional and very genuine flavours in every dish we make. To do so, we rely on the experienced hands of Dona Hortense, who cooks traditional Alentejo dishes daily; and Zé Grilo, who can show you how to make real Alentejo bread baked in a wood-fired oven. --- --- We want you to find the Alentejo - genuine and rustic - in every gesture of ours. Sit down with us and share this moment. [Footer Logo](/m/en/) Address [Rua Cidade de Beja Santiago do Cacém, Alentejo, Alentejo 7540-224 Portugal](https://maps.google.com?q=Rua+Cidade+de+Beja,Santiago+do+Cac%C3%A9m%2C+Alentejo,7540-224) Social Contacts [+351 269 249 900](tel:+351269249900) [info@santiagohotel.pt](mailto:info@santiagohotel.pt) [![Powered by GuestCentric — Hotel Website & Booking Technology](https://static.guestcentric.net/cdn/wsbdev/wsbdev_bin/powered-gc.svg)](https://www.guestcentric.com/) --- ## Santiago Hotel **Address:** Rua Cidade de Beja, Santiago do Cacém, Alentejo, 7540-224, Portugal **Phone:** +351 269 249 900 **Email:** [info@santiagohotel.pt](mailto:info@santiagohotel.pt)