Madeira

Exclusive guide to the best holiday destinations in Madeira independent reviews from award-winning travel writers

Cruising Iona’s best restaurants

Cruising Iona’s best restaurants

Andy Mossack spends two weeks eating aboard Iona to bring you his guide to cruising Iona’s best restaurants.

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Iona Cruise around Portugal and Spain

Iona Cruise around Portugal and Spain

Andy Mossack boards a P&O Cruises Iona Cruise around Portugal and Spain with the added bonus of an onboard Gary Barlow concert.

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Guide To Madeira's Restaurants

Great Insider guide to Madeira’s restaurants

Terry Marsh is a veteran of Madeira having spent over fifteen years writing about the island. Here, he gives us an insider guide to his favourite restaurants and foods you can find on Madeira.

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Quintinha Sao Joao

In Portuguese ‘quinta’, originally meant a farm and house let out at a rent of one-fifth of its produce, from Latin quintus, ‘one fifth. Today, it has an altogether different meaning, and, in the case of Madeira, refers to former colonial manor houses that have been converted to luxury hotels enclosed within their own grounds. Logically, then, a quintinha, is a small quinta, and such is the case with the Quintinha Sao Joao on the hillside above Funchal, overlooking the city at around 70 metres above sea level

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Il Gallo D'Oro

Il Gallo d’Oro. Funchal

A number of Madeiran restaurants are striving to achieve that elusive, and well-earned, Michelin star. So far, only one has reached those culinary heights, Il Gallo d’Oro restaurant, in the Cliff Bay hotel, Funchal awarded in 2009.

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Guide to Madeira

Often cited as a destination for Saga louts, or a welcome port in many a cruise ship’s storm, Madeira has come in for some unfair criticism over the years for, it is claimed, favouring the more mature rather than the 18-30 brigade and families. Here is my personal guide to Madeira, a very special drop in the ocean.

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