casa rosada

Our Second Visit To The Cosy Casa Rosada. As Rupert & Andrew Are Magnificent Hosts - Specially Preparing Delicious Vegan Dishes & Selecting Wines. We Ate Our Meals In The Magical Garden, Blooming With Plant Life - Colourful, Fragrant Fruit & Flowers By Day - Romantically Lit By Candles At Night. Slept Like Royalty In A Comfortable Four Poster Bed, Waking-Up To Outstanding Breakfast. Wish We Were Still There... Highly Recommended…

Date of stay: September 2019Trip type: Travelled as a couple

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Fantastic Stay with Fabulous Hosts!

We had a fabulous stay here in a lovely traditional Portuguese town. The house is designed to perfection. Our room was like a large New York townhouse. Our bed was beyond comfortable - I found it hard to leave! Fluffy towels, beautiful linen and then the food...WOW! Such a beautiful ( Instagramable if you are in to that) breakfast - fresh, colourful, jam made from the garden, FRESH orange juice. You have a chef who will literally cook you the best meal you will ever have for supper ! We had fresh tuna, beetroot gazpacho , gluten free starter for me too! I could go on...you need a car. We love travelling around so we were happy to have this as our base and explore the surroundings. We went to Spain for dinner too ( it’s 15 mins away). The water is warmer to swim in here rather than the East Algarve we had just been to. We arrived on the last day of the Medieval Festival which was an experience in itself! A fabulous stay ✨…

Date of stay: August 2019Trip type: Travelled as a couple

Inspirational

Our second visit to Casa Rosada was another resounding success.. hard to top the last visit but everything was as good as we remembered and as before I came home inspired to cook and bake thanks to Rupert’s encyclopaedic knowledge of all things food and drink..and his truly delicious cooking..we visited several local restaurants and tried a new one in Ayamonte which was amazing.. all thanks to Andrew and Rupert and their advice on where to go and when .. this is a truly excellent place to base yourself and drive out along the Algarve every day. ⭐️…

Date of stay: April 2019Trip type: Travelled as a couple

Halfway to paradise. Or very nearly the whole way...

Ok. Here we go. My review of the delightful Casa Rosada... Start your day with home-made yogurt, granola, plums, greengages, peaches, figs, apricots, cherries plus delicious toast with homemade jams, preserves and marmalades. Accompanied by superb coffee, freshly squeezed orange juice and whatever. Then off to the beach, perhaps. (Scorchio...) When you get back, the food you'll be served in the exquisite garden in the evening is the best I've eaten in Portugal. Or Spain. Or Italy. Or Thailand. Or Japan. Or Mexico. In fact, better, tastier, more intriguing food than pretty much anything else I've ever eaten...(apart from in that French/Japanese Michelin restaurant in Bourgogne that I will never, ever tell anyone else about...) Then there are the airy, beautifully appointed bedrooms. Crisp linen. Tasteful decor. Extraordinarily comfortable beds. And the bathrooms fit for kings, queens - or whatever. Drench yourself in style, dry yourself in luxury. But what about Casa Rosada's immediate location? Castro Marim is a frontier town between the Algarve and Andalusia, and It has a huge mediaeval castle, surrounded by streets with a charming 18th and 19th century sleepy Portuguese ambience. Best of all for the sybaritic holiday-making nature-loving Anglo, there are salt pans, rivers, marshes and other unspoilt natural features all around this well connected little town, as well as roads that lead in a delightfully arcane way to the most brilliant beaches in Europe. Rupert and Andrew, your charming and sophisticated hosts, will guide you to the very best: Cacelha Velho, Fabrica, Praia Verde, Cabescu. All a few short miles away. With cranes dipping into verdant lagoons to scoop up the flashing, darting fish. Sandy beaches that stretch into all possible horizons. Restaurants, bars and coffee houses to rival the South of France. Particularly in the nearest town, the lively hotspot of Tavira. As you might intuit, I love staying at Casa Rosada. So does my partner in crime. It's not quite paradise, because there's the odd mosquito or two, as well as the occasional bit of 'saudade' (look it up...) But it's damn close to it, and it won't cost you the earth. Far from it. …

Date of stay: July 2018Trip type: Travelled as a couple

Birthday celebration

Casa Rosada has been on my list of ‘places we must visit’ for a while and in April we finally did !! The house sits elegantly on a wonderfully quiet street just below the most beautiful, imposing castle and once inside its peaceful, charming interiors were a delight. The most amazing kitchen is at the heart of Casa Rosada , where Rupert weaves his magic ..I would have been happy staying in the kitchen !! Our beautiful grey and ochre room was enormous as was the ensuite bathroom ..and when we woke next day , it was to the sound of birdsong.. the bed is huge and very comfortable by the way. We visited Tavira ..a short drive away with shopping advice from Andrew and Rupert.. we had a delicious rosé wine at dinner and with their help bought some to take home. You must have dinner at Casa Rosada... you will have an amazing culinary experience .. everything is so perfect and unusual and you may , like me , be inspired to rush home and make rose hip syrup and yoghurt flat bread.. The highlight of breakfast was the most delicious home made preserves with fruit and granola in our case taken inside due to showery weather but we plan to return to eat in the gorgeous garden in warmer weather. Andrew and Rupert were the kindest most attentive hosts you could wish for and full of good ideas and advice as to where to go, eat and shop . A truly amazing place to stay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️…

Date of stay: April 2018Trip type: Travelled as a couple