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Café Pastéis de Belém Lisbon
34 Reviews This cafe is very famous for its Portuguese egg tarts which are delicious. You can get take away (pay first then collect food) but we choose to sit in and have coffee, beer and egg tarts. The building...
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Portuguese traditional food Porto
52 Reviews Beira Rio has a outdoor zone just delitful. Looking to the historical part of Porto and the UNESCO Wourld Patrimonial D.Luis Bridge (built by Eifel), anyone can be surprised by the feeling inside....
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Café a Piriquita Sintra
7 Reviews I first had a cola zero 1.20 euro and later i was here again i had a fresh orange juice (asuma naranga natural?) and a cheese baguete? very cheap here Also you can do take away bread, pastries and...
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Traditional Alentejo Food Évora
7 Reviews The good typical dishes from Alentejo, are prepared with conscience and respect for costumers and traditions. Going in a low season day, we found a service in a normal rhythm, unusual in those...
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General info on eating in Lisbon Lisbon
43 Reviews Something to remember Portugal by is Cod fish prepared on 100 different ways. Called BACALHAU (I call it BACALAO) in Portugal. Bacalhau is very popular in Portugal.Some say there are 365 ways of cook...
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Cafe Majestic Porto
8 Reviews We needed a great meal and it was readily apparent the hotel staff were clueless so I hit the nearest internet spot and looked on chowhound.com. Cafe Majestik came up several times and, better yet, it...
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Por do Sol Sintra
2 Reviews while travelling through small villages in Portugal, you'll find loads of restaurants with this name, which means Sunset. Quite romantic. But this one is very special. You won't find hard to find it...
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Street Cafés Évora
6 Reviews Very popular cafe in Evora, which, given its location just beside the Temple, was excellent value. It was full of both locals, who congregated at the bar (see picture) and tourists in the seats on the...
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Café a Brasileira Lisbon
23 Reviews A Brasileira is one of the traditional coffee shops that line the Rua Garrett. I won’t hide the fact that it is almost always filled with tourists, but as a Belle Époque café, it is one of the great...
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Quick food Porto
9 Reviews It looked good... The bread was very nice.... The ham and cheese were ok... But oh dear... "the steak" ???? It tasted like it had been pulled out of the river. 4 of us tasted it but the nicest...
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Tulhas Bar and Restaurante Sintra
2 Reviews A small unpretentious restaurant - bar in a historical building. I had a good dish of baked cod au gratin layered with mashed potatoes, and a truly great cheesecake. The manager was attentive, but...
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Luxury restaurants Évora
3 Reviews Set in the cloister of a former monestary, the restaurant in the Convento dos Loios pousada is a delight. A good selection of traditional Portuguese favorites and a great wine list. The selection at...
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Cafe Nicola Lisbon
10 Reviews We spent a week in Lisbon and discovered Cafe Nicola on the very first day. Had many great meals there and came away very impressed with all the Cafe had to offer. The personal service from our...
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Brazilian Restaurants Porto
1 Review Under the sign of Interior Decoration, images of unmistakable cosiness transport us to the land of dreams, contrasts and hapiness, wich is now so close...Having dinner to the sound of a "samba",...
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Vegetarian Évora
4 Reviews Vegetarian restaurant in Evora, Portugal is making its amazing debut next monday 2nd May 2005! this fabulous UNESCO city has another vegetarian restaurant. dont forget to visit it while in portugal...
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Restô do Chapitô Lisbon
8 Reviews I liked the place and its ambiance. It seems like nice local youth is coming here to meet and eat. If you go early around 6 pm , you can find a good table by the view. We ordered Fondue for 2 and a...
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Bakeries Évora
2 Reviews This pastry-shop is on the main square of Evora and Antonio invited us for a great pastry at the end of our tour through Evora, before we made the excursion by taxi to the Cromeleque. They have a...
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Cervejaria Portugália Lisbon
7 Reviews Forty five years ago, I found one restaurant in Lisbon with a special steak, swimming in an exclusive and delicious sauce. Though ninety per cent of the costumers eat seafood with beer, I always keep...
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Chinese Évora
1 Review nice chinese food. people are very nice and always smiling at you. they even take time out if you want to learn some words in chinese or learn a little bit from their country. open everyday from 12pm...
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Doca de Santo Amaro Lisbon
7 Reviews Under the 25 de Abril Bridge is a dock area filled with restaurants and bars in former warehouses. There are several to choose from, mainly international restaurants. All of them facing the river,...
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Fast food Évora
2 Reviews Quiosque Jardim Diana is a street kiosk with refreshment like ice and cold drinks. Also coffee and tea, snacks and candy are available. There's a small terras with a nice view onto the Temple and...
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Pavilhão Chinês Lisbon
4 Reviews Interesting and unusual interior. Could pass as a museum of sorts. The menu is actually a book so don't be intimidated. Awesome atmosphere and comfortable chairs. Place is a little spendy but well...
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Rei dos Frangos Lisbon
7 Reviews Wonderful restaurant, easy to find. Great food, nice prices. We found it by accident because our favourite restaurant was closed but never regretted it. Next time it's gonna be hard to choose because...
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Casa de Comida Lisbon
4 Reviews This is a very classy restaurant: the staff switched effortlessly from Portugese to English and were very professional. The interior is beautiful (if not the exterior, which is a door in a wall) and...
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Parreirinha de Alfama Lisbon
3 Reviews Olivier's is something special. Its not cheap but then with 5 cold starters and 5 hot starters plus a main course it wouldnt be. Its 35euros in fact with drinks aextra and dessert another 6euros, but...
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The waterfront at Cascais/Estoril area is popular with open-air seafood restaurants. Most of them open for business during the evenings and at night until early hours of the morning. The prices of seafood are often listed on the boards and placed in front of the restaurants to attract diners. Local style seafood served with cooked potatoes and lemon slices.
In Portugal the best drink of choice is wine. Red wine is the favorite (and of course Vinho do Porto has to be number one) but white wine is also popular. Drinking wine during a meal is very common in Portugal but it is also popular after the meal is finished and come to that before the meal as well. Actually the drinking is considered almost socially intimate but is something that is not normaly done alone.As well as many great wines there are also some great beers the most popular of which is Super Bock closely followed by my favorite Sagres.
As in Spain and Italy There are some fantastic pork products in Portugal.The pig enjoys the acorn and white truffles widely spread in the cork oak groves of the Alentejo. Do not miss the famous "carne de porco a alentejana", made with diced marinated pork meat with red peppers and clams or the roasted piglet ("Ieitão assado"), golden and crunchy as desired. The sausages are excellent and you can delight with the smoked ham ("presunto") and the smoked pork sausages like the "paio" and the "salpicão". For those who like tripe, the Portuguese have a dish that will totally seduce you! The "Tripas à moda do Porto" is a popular dish made of veal and chicken tripe, sausage, smoked ham, dried beans, onions, smoked pork sausage ("chouriço"), herbs and spices and if you want to go the full Hog (pardon the pun) Suckling pig (leitão assado)
The food of Portugal is inspired by the Atlantic and thus many of the dishes contain fish, especially salted cod, Small fish usually cost considerably less than the larger ones. Most often fresh fish are sold by the kilo and there can be a large range in price depending on the type of fish. Some fish are thought of as special delicacies because they are rarer and with much better taste according to the palates of the Portuguese so their price is accordingly much higher. The Portuguese will happily pay this higher amount because they know they are getting a special fish but the tourists may not realize or appreciate that the prices for these special fish are much higher per kilo than other more common ones.A large fresh fish or the 'favourite special kind of fish' can be quite expensive, since they are sold BY KILO WEIGHT and the tourists often do not understand this. A normal fish to...
This place has finally redeemed itself.Formerly it could be a miserable experience for foreigners as one of the waiters went out of his way to be rude and even nasty to them. He is now a thing of the past, and the current staff is a pleasant bunch of people. The food is the normal range of cafe dishes, but they are better prepared and presented than usual. Prices are average.If your waiter is Paolo, say hello - he is largely responsible for helping to put a good face back on this place.
On four different occasions as we motored around Portugal on our 2500-km trip, we simply pulled our rental car off onto some secluded lane or field whenever the need for lunch overtook us. This usually was the case when we were covering some of the longer distances between places where we had pre-booked our accommodations and, since we mostly were travelling on secondary roads, it was easy to do. This day, we were getting closer to the north end of Portugal, driving from Guarda to Lamego just south of the Douro River. By noon, we had reached the village of Sernancelhe on a little-used highway. It was a scenic area so we pulled off onto an even smaller road and soon thereafter spotted a very appealing looking field on the side of a hill. It was here that we had one of our typical picnics, consisting of our supplies of bread, cheese, tomatoes and wine that we had bought while passing...
Marvelous place for getting the real Lisboa feel. Very few tourists. Almos all guests are local families. The atmosphere is very lively, busy, family-oriented I'd say. The price is very reasonable and the quality of the food is absolute top home style. House wine very good. I recommend any fish. I had the sword fish and a salad. Desserts are nothing special, they are industrially made. Don't miss it! Sword fish, salad very fresh.
The kitchen is Alentejo is excellent. If you're into olive oil, garlic, sundried tomatos, seafood and those kind of things - which I certainly am. I visited many good restaurants in Alentejo, but one gets a special mention: Fialho in the little university town Evora. It's an authentic looking restaurant in the centre of town with an excellent kitchen. I had a tapas meal with chorizo and pata negra (unfortunately I don't eat meat), seafood, and so on.
Well, in Caminha there some nice typical restaurants but that day we wanted to take a nice pizza and we didn’t get disappointed with the Restaurant O Gordo.When we get there it was soon, almost 12:00 pm and we asked a lady there if we could get enter and ask the meal. She was very nice, she recommends us the pizza (medium size - 7,50 euros) and I think it was the best pizza I ever had . The pizza was the medium size but it was big for two persons, we couldn’t eat all!And the view over the river was great. So we enjoyed the meal and the view a lot.For desert we had strawberries with chantili and express café to finish.
This is a road restaurant with homemade food at very good prices. I only had breakfast there while making the Camino de Santiago on foot. The owner showed me the restaurant and the menu and all was brilliant, but it was early and I was not hungry. It is located at only one and a half hours on foot to Barcelos. see above
Lapa Palace Lisbon
4 Reviews and 206 Opinions Great weekend. Best hotel in Lisbon for gardens and outside pool 5* and so not cheap. Excellent...
Sheraton Porto Hotel & Spa Porto
2 Reviews and 303 Opinions I have no words to explain how much I liked the place. I paid 50 euros for a double room and What a...
Hotel Calheta Beach Madeira Island
1 Review and 219 Opinions Calheta has a marvelous marina and have the only beach of yellow sand. It´s situated in the West...
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