Portuguese churrasco & petiscos · Edgware
A small truck, charcoal on the grill and the smell of garlic and piri-piri. Honest Portuguese food — churrasco chicken, bifanas, croquetes and rissóis, made fresh each day.
(a) · Small plates
Small plates, served one at a time
Charcoal piri-piri chicken
Half a chicken over charcoal, brushed with garlic, lemon and piri-piri.
Pork steak roll
Thin pork steaks slow-cooked in garlic and white wine, in a crusty papo-seco.
Steak roll
Garlic beef steak in a soft roll, with mustard on the side.
Salt cod fritters
Golden salt cod and potato fritters, fried to order. Three per portion.
Beef croquettes
Crisp breadcrumbed beef croquettes, hot from the fryer.
Prawn rissoles
Half-moon pastries filled with creamy prawn, crisp on the outside.
Custard tarts
Flaky pastry, vanilla custard, a dusting of cinnamon.
(b) · Our story
“I cook like my grandmother did — slowly, listening to the oil.”
Elsa learned to cook in a Portuguese kitchen — clay pots, blue tiles, charcoal always going — with the flavours of her African family never far from the pan. Years later she brought it all to the street: one small truck, a tiled counter, and recipes that never changed. Everything is made fresh that day, in small batches.
(c) · Parties & events
Catering for weddings, birthdays and small events in and around Edgware. Tell us the date and the place — Elsa will bring the counter and build the menu with you.
@casaelsa · Edgware