Friday’s Featured Food: Cooked Chicken, Rice and Salad At Tentadora Restaurant, São Tomé, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹

Despite having taken over 10,000 Food photographs on my travels, I am definitely not a food freak, geek or blogger but I sometimes feel the need to cover some of my meals on Friday’s Featured Food.

In São Tome E Principe, I visited Bobo Forro, Trinidade, São Tome (the capital city), Porto Allegre, São Joao dos Angolares and Ilheu Das Rolas, where I crossed the equator on foot. I enjoyed hanging out with Marek Bladowski from Poland and ended up staying 6 days at the excellent Casa De Ferias. This time, we headed to downtown São Tome, Marek and I, and we decided we would find chicken and rice, somewhere, anywhere!

We stumbled upon Tentadora Restaurant and got a table downstairs in front of the bar. The entrance to the actual restaurant is in the back, although you can drink on the front balcony.

Once inside, the menu was vast but unclear. There were almost too many dishes on it. All we wanted was chicken and rice and that’s what we tried to order! As well as two local cold “Rosema” (the beer with no name).

Eventually, the waitress understood our chicken request as we ordered up two “beers with no name”.

The local beer always comes in a bottle with no name here. They don’t waste money on printing and sticking on beer labels here. But it is local São Tome beer and miles better than the imported Portuguese excrement. Officially the beer comes in black cases bearing the word Rosema on it. So it’s called Rosema beer, yet when ordering, you just ask for a Cerveja Nacional. The national beer.

Within 60 minutes, the chicken arrives and is actually quite big! I was also surprised that it came with a small salad, and then we are delivered two large hills of rice each.

We ask for pikante sauce, standard for me when backpacking Africa and Marek loves it too, yet this one wasn’t actually too spicy. The chicken wasn’t so meaty but we ate what we could and it ended up being my nicest chicken meal on this trip to Africa.

The total bill was –

40,00 x 4 – Rosema Beer – 160,0
140,00 x 2 – Chicken, rice and salad – 280,00

Total – 440,00 (£15 Northern Irish pounds)

This worked out at £7.50 each which included 2 beers so really a decent price!

Here are the details of Tentadora Restaurant in São Tomé:

Here are some videos made by Marek and I of our dinner at Tentadora Restaurant in São Tomé: