Dear customers we are closed for the morning on Monday the 01/05/2017.Opening hours will be from 14:00 to 22:00.We are sorry for the inconvenience.Thank you.The management

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Franca's Cafe first appearance in the local newspaper,we are very proud.Do come and visit our friendly and very welcoming café.

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Bolo do Caco description are 'muffin-like' breads from the Madeira islands. They are made with sweet potato and are traditionally cooked on a tile or stone slab above a wood fire. These ad-hoc baking slabs are easy to set up at festivals where you will often find these delicious breads being made right on the spot. All you need is a small wood fire, a tile or a slab of thin stone propped above the fire. Traditionally cooked on an open fire Caco means 'broken piece' referring to the tile or stone that the breads are baked on. Bolo means 'cake', the common word used for bread also. Don't think of 'cake' like we do in the West, cake refers more to the shape. Bolo do Caco are really more like English muffins on steroids because of the sweet potato.

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If Portugal were to name a national sandwich, the bifana sandwich would have to be on the short list. Available across every region and sold in every location—from food trucks, to shopping centre food courts, to tiny local hole-in-the-wall snack bars—the humble bifana is easy enough to find and looks easy to make. But don’t be fooled by its simplicity—the basic description of “marinated pork slices in a bun” is deceiving. The popularity of the Bifana sandwich even prompted McDonald’s in Portugal to create a McBifana in 2013… but anyone will tell you it’s a weak imitation. Bifanas are generally considered to be “fast food,” but in a Portuguese kitchen, the thinly-sliced pork is slow-cooked until tender, marinated in garlic, spices and on Franca's Cafe with our special recipe and marinated for days served on Madeira traditional Bolo do Caco, it taste even better after all. Indeed, a well-made bifana sandwich will zap you with a lightning bolt of flavours, and McDonald’s McBifana simply doesn’t compare.

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And this is how our traditional Bolo do Caco is made in Madeira, come and have a taste of it with our delicious prego at Franca's Cafe EN - Bolo de Caco - Is a very traditional and signature eat in Madeiran cuisine. Made with sweet potato, it's a round bread that is traditionally cooked on a basalt stone slab. The bread is usually served simply with garlic butter and is usually eaten as a sandwich with typical Madeiran foods like octopus, meat skewers (espetada), and also used as the bread for a typical Portuguese Prego steak sandwich. PT - Bolo de Caco - É uma especialidade madeirense muito corrente na ilha. Feito com batata-doce é um pão redondo que é tradicionalmente cozinhado em uma laje de pedra de basalto. O pão é servido simplesmente com manteiga de alho e geralmente é consumido em sanduíche com alimentos típicos da ilha como o polvo, espetada, e também usado no típico "prego" - sanduíche de carne. — Products shown: Prego.

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Dear costumers, We will be closed on Sunday the 25 and returning on Monday 26 at 14:00. Thanks to all costumers for the good feedback and reviews. We Whish you all a Happy Merry Christmas full of presents.

Dear costumers, Franca's Cafe will be opening tomorrow for the first time from 08:00 until 22:00, 7 days a week. Come and visit. 5 Atkyns Road, Headington, Oxford, ox3 8ra

Dear customers unfortunately we are not going to be able to open our doors like planned this Sunday 27/11/2016 as a there was delays not on our part hut with supplies,materials and a few other things which then delayed all the few last bits of work which means not having the cafe 100% finished by tomorrow and we rather wait another week and give you the best we can instead of unfinished projects,so the final official opening date is the 04/12/2016. Thank you for being patient with us

Franca's cafe curiosity history facts. If you doubt of how many portuguese are in uk living in harmony and a peaceful enviroment and vise versa, the facts are of a truely great friendship between our two nations (630-year-old Treaty of Windsor) The oldest allieance in the world that is still in force.