If you’re not a regular reader, you might sometimes get the idea that we are sophisticated people in search of nicely dressed up food in stylish restaurants and get very angry when it is not. Thing is: the price has to match the quality, so when we pay a lot, we have high expectations. “Tambarina”…
As regular followers of our blog will know, we have had a hard time in finding restaurants with good vegetarian food. Or even decent. So we are always excited and happy whenever we find a place like “Pachamama” that cooks mostly vegetarian food, always includes a vegan and/or raw food option and every day has…
Many a times have we walked past “Restaurante Chimera”, a stone’s throw away from Cinema de São Jorge and just as many a times have we looked at the menu and thought, “one day we must go there ‘cause this looks amazing”. It was a matter of sheer intuition, from the cozy interior to the…
Situated in the heart of Chiado, one of Lisbon’s most beautiful and therefore also most touristic neighbourhoods is Buenos Aires Café na Fábrica, an Argentinian inspired restaurant. Nearby, there’s the Buenos Aires Café, a smaller version with a very similar interior design and more or less the same, expansive menu. Buenos Aires Café is a…
I’m sure we have all been in this situation at one point or another in our lives: you are two food critics coming back from a daytrip to the comatose half village half old folks home Santarém* and are ravenous for some good, spicy food. Then you remember that you’re in Lisbon. Upon googling “restaurante indiano lisboa”, you stumble upon a restaurant named “Zafraan” and try your luck. Once inside, the very personal, warm welcome by the owner and the smells of cumin and curry emanating from the kitchen start to look like smoke signals for an amazing restaurant.
Tucked away in a back alley of Mouraria, lies the hidden treasure of “Pho-Pu”. The restaurant is named after “Pho”, a Vietnamese street food dish, basically a broth with some noodles, fresh herbs and meat, beef or chicken. There really isn’t anything else to the place than soup and some Chinese ravioli, nor is that…
Dear readers, as you might have noticed, we are not a regular food blog. We care about our sexy pictures of food in its pre-digestive state (okay, in that sense we are a regular blog) but we also firmly believe in writing proper essays about our experiences and impressions of a restaurant. Mostly, it’s to…
(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.
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