Sunspot Café — restaurant in Madeira

About Sunspot Café

Sunspot Café is a mid-range portuguese, seafood, mediterranean and cafe restaurant in Ponta do Sol

If you only order one thing, make it the grilled fish with tomato salsa; garlic prawns with bolo do caco — it's what the kitchen is known for and what regulars come back for.

Ponta do Sol claims more hours of sunshine than anywhere else in Madeira, and Sunspot Café leans into it — an easy outdoor terrace where lunch stretches into the afternoon. The kitchen keeps things fresh and unfussy: grilled fish fillets with a warm tomato, onion and caper salsa, herb-crusted fish over buttery crushed potatoes, and a plate of garlic prawns that arrives sizzling in olive oil with lemon.

Order the prawns with bolo do caco — the warm Madeiran flatbread is made for mopping up the garlic butter — and pair it with a local craft beer. It's an ideal lunch stop on a west-coast day, minutes on foot from the pebble beach and the old stone sea bridge.