Are you searching for authentic Douro cuisine? Within the luxurious boutique hotel Torel Quinta da Vacaria (one MICHELIN Key), linked to a wine estate whose origins date back to 1616, you can discover it through the hands of the award-winning chef Vítor Matos. Behind the name Schistó, a play on words referencing one of the region’s best-known stones (schist), you will find a modern restaurant with an open kitchen and surrounding tables, allowing you to follow the chefs’ work at all times as they interact with diners while serving the dishes and offering explanations. The elegant proposal, centred on a single 10-step tasting menu, reinterprets the cuisine of the Douro Valley using many products from the estate, such as wine, olive oil and vegetables grown in its garden. They present a renewed version of flavours from the past, as in Cozido à portuguesa (traditional Portuguese stew), and give strong prominence to fish from the river ecosystem!