(Note 03/09/2017: They upped their prices substantially and unfortunately we haven’t been back here since. The pizzas are most likely still as good as they were, but spending around 14€ for a pizza (the average pizza price there these days) is just not an option for us. We feel that this place is just too…
(NOTE: This place is now unfortunately out of business despite our beautiful article! We’ll miss it dearly. R.I.P.) The evening that Nora and me came back from holidays we were, frankly, starving. We’d been out on the road all day (we were hitchhiking from Porto and it didn’t go as well as planned) so by…
1. For you it’s no longer called Mercearia do Século but Fernanda. Fernanda is the gracious, courteous owner, who, no matter how busy she might be, always takes her time to greet you and make you feel like you are the only person in the room.
Confession time, dear children! Before Nora and me went to Berlin summer 2014, coffee for me was never a big deal. Before you take out your pitchforks and torches, “The Barn” in Berlin has since then changed my mind and pallet. The lightly roasted espresso’s impressed me very much – almost tealike in their bitter,…
1. You are a tourist because you are reading The Rough Guide, The Lonely Planet or some other travel guide to Lisbon. You see a picture of this mythical creature of a dessert called Pastel de Nata and you, being a tourist, want to have one too.
So, this is technically not a blog post about a restaurant in Lisbon, but rather it’s a delayed report of a weekend trip Nora and I made a couple of weeks ago to Porto. We had a great time, stayed in a house by the sea with some friends, had some good wines to taste,…
Sometimes, life will throw you such a curveball that you’ll wonder how it could ever be possible that there is a god. And then, there are days like this, of incredible coincidence and random, lucky encounters that you think, if Nietzsche was here, even he would bow down to whatever higher power that led us…
Restaurant culture is a wonderful thing. Ideally, it sparks creativity, displays local ingredients of good quality and brings people of different walks of life, neighborhoods and countries together in the same place in order to experience one of the most basic human necessities and great pleasures in life: to eat together. Unfortunately, our society’s obsession…
Truth be told, finding a vegetarian restaurant in Lisbon is almost as hard as finding a Portuguese restaurant without bacalhau. To make matters worse, the few that we know, are rather, well… disappointing. Too much tofu or seitan, not enough vegetables, too many things going on the same plate. The flame of hope lit up…
Let’s get one thing straight here folks, restaurants exist for one thing and one thing only: food. Not for fancy cheffing, not for owner egos, just food, glorious food. However, by the end of the meal at Azeit’alhos e tomate (which translates as “Olive oil with garlic and tomato”, yes, really) we were begging…
Lisbom 