Word: casas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Silva '89, a first generation Portuguese-American and campus expert on all things Portuguese (and coincidentally my roommate), assures us that Casa Portugal has the genuine Old World atmosphere. Eating at the Casa Portugal is a family legacy passed on to Ted by his brother Louie '84, and passed...
...love it" "But Ted, I don't like seafood." Portuguese dishes, and the menu at the Casa, mostly consist of fish and shellfish, as a natural result of Portugal's seacoast. I was worried. But Portuguese seafood is unlike any other fish dish you'll ever eat--it's good. Really good...
...dinner specials are the best introduction to Portuguese dining. Most seafood dishes consist of salty slabs of off-white flesh with tangy blobs of lemon sliding across the top and flanks of the deceased H2O breather. But the Casa's seafood is served up as a steamy, eye-tingling gumbo of rice and hors d'oeuvres-size bits of fish, mussels, shrimp or clams, all wrapped up in a deliciously meaty, spicy sauce which takes away the nasty oceanic tang that clings to most fish...
There are also some good meat dishes. Carne De Porco A Alentejana($10.75), marinated pork cubes with little necks in shells, allows you to go halfway on the fish experience. And Frango A Monte Pedral($7.95), going along with the smorgasbord stew theme which is the Casa's strength, mixes chicken, linguica (?), ham, onion, and garlic bread in a sweet and slightly spicy wine sauce. If you're a big fan of knockwurst and other beery to worry about what linguica is. and wine dish is the Portuguese answer. Large quantities of vin verde--either Tres Marias or Casal Garcia...
...enough of these ridiculous attempts to find different ways to say delicious. Gourmets irritate me anyway--this is for hungry students trying to resuscitate their cafeteria-numbed tastebuds, not for effete snobs whose palates can differentiate wine bouquets at fifty paces. The overall impression of the Casa Portugal is being set down to Thanksgiving dinner in a Portuguese household--affirmed by my Portuguese expert Ted Silva. Big helpings, a friendly husband and wife team running the show, and decidedly unpretentious decor all combine to make you feel like you're visiting an Old World friend...