€ Lusitanos (249 977 572. Largo Marquês de Pombal, 25; closed on Tuesdays). With a view towards the Largo da Feira, this restaurant offers many variations of the region’s gastronomy.

€ Páteo Sevilhano (249 977 443. Largo Imaculada Conceição, 56; closed on Sundays). Built in the ancient, traditional homestead of Golegã, this restaurant offers regional food at reasonable prices.

€€ Restaurante do Hotel Lusitano (249 979 170. Rua Gil Vicente, 4; closed on Sundays at dinner time; closed on Mondays). Part of a charming hotel, with a terrace overlooking Ribatejo’s Lezíria landscape, this is a place which combines the rural and the contemporary, with a new twist on regional gastronomy.