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O chá do restaurante é muito forte.

O chá do restaurante é muito forte.
The restaurant's tea is very strong.
From Lesson 50:Adverbs of degree (muito, pouco)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about O chá do restaurante é muito forte.

Why doesn't muito change its ending in this sentence?
In this sentence, muito means "very" and it describes the adjective forte (strong). When muito is used to mean "very" before an adjective, it is an adverb of degree. Adverbs never change to match masculine/feminine or singular/plural words, so it will always stay as muito.
Why does it say chá do restaurante instead of using an apostrophe-s like in English?
Portuguese does not use an apostrophe-s ('s) to show ownership. Instead, you say "the tea of the restaurant". The word do is a contraction of the preposition de (of) and o (the masculine word for "the", matching restaurante).
Why use é instead of está? Isn't a cup of tea temporary?
We use é (from the verb ser) because we are talking about a permanent characteristic of the tea at this specific restaurant: they always make it strong there. If you were talking about a single cup of tea that just happened to be unusually strong today, you would use está.
Would the adjective forte change if the noun was feminine?
No. Adjectives that end in the letter "e", like forte (strong) or grande (big), are neutral. They look exactly the same for both masculine and feminine nouns. They only change if you need to make them plural by adding an "s".

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