ATO

ATO, a contemporary Portuguese cuisine by a young American chef from Florida named Sean Marsh. 

Ato is a small restaurant in the center historical town of Faro, it has only 22 seatings. The reservation is highly advised. 

Guests can see the chef in his tiny open kitchen, so you can see him and his sous-chef at work. 

For our dinner, we were welcomed by a charming and smiling host and sommelier. 

There was no set menu, every dish is à la carte. There seven starters, four main dishes and two desserts. 

The starters like local clams, Kimchi and brown butter and local prawns were very tasty and well-cooked. The chef is extremely good with the bouillons and the sauces.

The main dishes, the corvina was perfectly prepared and cooked with courgetti, saffron and mint. The Açorda with wild mushrooms dish with three different types of mushrooms was exquisite. It’s too bad that we didn’t have place for the desserts. 

The wine list is short with two sparkling wines, fifteen white wines, twelve red wines and five fortified wines. The selection is small, but the wines were pretty good like our bottle of Quinta de Linhares Azal, Vinho Verdes, 2022. 

The service by our host and sommelier was welcoming, warm, smiling with a perfect English. 

We made a small comment to chef Sean Marsh that his small kitchen was poorly ventilated and that it was unpleasant to smell of food when leaving the restaurant.

ATO is a petit and affordable bistro with a grand ambition on the food scene in Algarve.

ATO

Rua do Albergue 16.

8000-416 Faro, Portugal

Telephone : +351 937 613 844

www.atorestaurante.com