Regional products and typical dishes in restaurants in the Autonomous Region of Madeira

Sousa, Bruno; Pereira, Helena; Sequeira, Cármen

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Sousa, Bruno

Pereira, Helena

Sequeira, Cármen

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Madeira's regional cuisine, which includes typical dishes and characteristic local foods, is an unmistakable attraction for tourism of this region. The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of dishes and typical foods of Madeiran gastronomy in the menus of restaurants in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. For this study we used a search engine widely used by tourists, “Tripadvisor Portugal®” and made the search for “restaurants” and as a place “Madeira, Portugal”. From the results presented were searched in the menus of the restaurants that presented it online, the presence of the main typical local foods as well as the main dishes of the regional gastronomy. Of the total of 100 restaurants presented, only 48 made the menu available online, which most were in the Funchal (92%). Of the restaurants that provided the menu, we found that the most common typical food was the scabbardfish (52.1%) followed by passion fruit (41.7%), tuna fish (39.6%), banana (39.6%), sweet potato (37.5%) and avocado (29.2%) Typical regional dishes include black scabbardfish fillet (52.1%), tuna steak (27.1%), “espetada” (27.1%), grilled limpets (27.1%) and tomato soup (25%). Thus we find a good expression of local dishes and food in the menus of tourist restaurants, but we think they could be more present and with a greater variety, giving opportunity to those who visit the Autonomous Region of Madeira to know the regional gastronomy, which is a factor of cultural identity of this region.