Let’s face it: Lisbon is no longer the coffee dwarf of the days of yore. Over the last couple of years, the city has seen a tremendous, explosive boom in specialty coffee shops and roasters. It all started in 2015 with Copenhagen Coffee Lab opening its first coffee shop at Praça das Flores which was…
Dear readers, in this feature we will give you a comprehensive and concise overview of our favorite go-to places in Lisbon, covering everything from bars, cafés, and restaurants to ice cream shops and specialized coffee joints. With regards to price, all of these places would be in the affordable category. If you’re on a very…
Dear readers, food lovers and forever-hungry-gourmets, you might have wondered where we’ve been the past months. To be frank: busy with our day-jobs as teachers and busy with the publication of this very cool booklet with Nout’s poetry and Nora’s photography. All good and well you might say, but, as an Italian friend of mine…
Isn’t it interesting how a country like Portugal has so many dishes centered around preserved, salted cod (bacalhau) hasn’t actually taken up smoking fishes? Unlike Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands or the UK, smoking food in general was never part of Portugal’s culinary bloodstream. Thankfully, The Moustache Smokery has been filling in that gap with some first rate dishes featuring…
Yes dear readers, it’s the time of the lists: wish lists, gift lists, shopping lists, best of nostalgia remember this video or article clickbait list, etc. So, we here at Lisbom decided to spoil you with our own list as well. May it fill your hearts and stomachs and make you feel as merry as…
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,…
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…
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