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To Start

  • Caldo Verde

    Avó's green soup — shredded kale, potato and chouriço, finished with olive oil. Comes with a warm Portuguese roll.

    R58

  • Peri-Peri Wings

    Six wings grilled sticky in the house peri-peri, with a lemon wedge. Napkins are not optional.

    R78

  • Peri-Peri Chicken Livers

    Pan-fried in the hot marinade with garlic and a splash of cream. Keep the roll for the sauce — you'll want it.

    R74

  • Chouriço Assado

    Flame-grilled chouriço, split and charred, brought to the table still hissing.

    R92

  • Trinchado

    Beef simmered slow in red wine, garlic and bird's-eye chilli. A starter in name only.

    R96

  • Garlic Roll(V)

    A Portuguese roll soaked in garlic butter and toasted over the coals.

    R28

From the Grill

Everything here cooks over an open flame, basted as it turns. Chicken comes with your choice of baste — lemon & herb, mild, hot, or extra hot if you grew up on it. Grills are served with chips and spicy rice, or swap both for Portuguese salad.

  • Peri-Peri Chicken — Quarter

    Flattened on the grill and basted until the skin blisters. Avó's marinade, unchanged since 1987.

    R95

  • Peri-Peri Chicken — Half

    R148

  • Peri-Peri Chicken — Full

    R268

  • Espetada da Casa

    Cubes of rump on the long skewer with bay leaf and coarse salt, hung at your table with garlic butter dripping down.

    R255

  • Chicken Espetada

    Thigh meat skewered with peppers and onion, basted as it turns.

    R168

  • Flame-Grilled Rump 300g

    Aged rump off the open flame, sliced, with roast potatoes and charred green peppers.

    R215

  • Peri-Peri Prawns

    A dozen queen prawns in peri butter with lemon and a roll for mopping up.

    R298

  • Pork Ribs 600g

    Marinated overnight in massa de pimentão, grilled until the edges catch.

    R218

  • Grelhada Mista for Two

    The braai board — espetada, wings, chouriço, ribs and grilled peppers. How Sunday sounds at Avó's.

    R395

Prego Rolls & Burgers

On Portuguese rolls from the bakery two doors down. Add chips with peri salt for R30.

  • Prego Roll

    The one on the sign — 200g rump beaten thin, fried in garlic butter, a swipe of peri on the roll. Add a fried egg for R12.

    R92

  • Chicken Prego

    Flattened chicken breast in the same garlic butter, your choice of baste.

    R85

  • Bifana

    Thin pork simmered in white wine, garlic and paprika, piled onto a roll with mustard. Lisbon's favourite sandwich, Edenvale's secret.

    R79

  • Avó's Burger

    200g chuck-and-brisket patty, grilled chouriço relish and cheese on a toasted roll.

    R115

  • Peri-Peri Chicken Burger

    Flame-grilled thigh, peri mayo, shredded lettuce.

    R105

Sides

  • Chips with Peri Salt(V)

    Twice-fried, dusted at the pass.

    R42

  • Spicy Rice(V)

    Yellow rice with peppers and a quiet heat.

    R38

  • Portuguese Salad(V)

    Tomato, cucumber, red onion, olives and oregano — dressed, not drowned.

    R52

  • Grilled Mielie(V)

    Sweetcorn charred on the flame, rolled in peri butter.

    R34

  • Avó's Peri-Peri 125ml(V)

    The bottle for the table. She still won't tell us everything that's in it.

    R48

Desserts

  • Pastéis de Nata (two)(V)

    Baked every morning, blistered on top, cinnamon on the side. When they're gone, they're gone — come earlier next time.

    R58

  • Bolo de Bolacha(V)

    Coffee-soaked biscuit cake with butter cream, from Avó's sister's recipe book. We won't say which sister.

    R62

  • Serradura(V)

    "Sawdust pudding" — whipped cream layered with crushed Maria biscuits. The kids' favourite for three generations.

    R56

Drinks

  • Sumol(V)

    Orange or passion fruit, ice-cold in the can. The taste of every Portuguese café in Joburg.

    R38

  • Soft Drinks 330ml(V)

    Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite or Fanta.

    R30

  • Still / Sparkling Water 500ml(V)

    Cold from the fridge, not the shelf.

    R28

  • Sagres

    Portugal's beer, cold enough to hurt.

    R52

  • Vinho Verde — Glass

    Young, dry, barely fizzy — made for grilled chicken.

    R58

  • Vinho Verde — Bottle

    R225

  • House Sangria (jug)

    Red wine, brandy, citrus and cinnamon. Weekend lunch fuel.

    R185

  • Galão(V)

    The tall milky one — proper Portuguese coffee to finish.

    R38

  • Espresso (bica)(V)

    Short and strong, like Avó's opinions.

    R28