PREC - Processo Regenerativo em Curso
PREC is a food hub, canteen, café and grocery store in Mértola run by the Terra Sintrópica Association, offering vegetarian, plant-based mea…
Plant-based Diets
Eating lower on the food chain: the eco-café O Cais in Silves, the vegan platform Vegoa, and retreat kitchens like Essência in the Algarve. Everyday meals with a lighter footprint.
Projects in this focus
Plant-based eating in Portugal
Portuguese cooking is not obviously vegetarian territory, and yet the everyday base of it (beans, greens, bread, olive oil, chickpeas) mostly is. The projects here work from that rather than importing a foreign menu.
O Cais serves food and runs a shop out of a 1765 building in Silves. Essência cooks plant-based for guests at its off-grid retreat near Aljezur, and Cristaland does the same for events in Lagos. Vegoa organises the vegan side of it as a platform and association, and Peneda Eco Farm grows the vegetables in the far north.
Plant-based cooking here connects directly to the land it comes from. See also local and seasonal produce, foraging and wild foods, and the retreat centres, several of which cook this way by default. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.