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…
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…
If God did indeed create the world and all of its many cute kittens in 7 days, then on the 7th day his Holiness surely would have had brunch. Like any reasonable person would. Let’s get one thing straight: Sunday was not made for getting up in the morning (not at all really), getting stale…
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…
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the ultimate take away pizza showdown. Tonight on the left corner, the pizza from Verdachado also known as “the dough puncher”. On the right is the pizza from Pizza a pezzi, near Principe Real and known around the block as “the pizza slicer”. So, get your floured gloves on,…
“Bettina & Niccolò Corallo” (earlier known as Claudio Corallo) is probably the place, which we have one of the longest relationships with. I still remember going there to buy artisanal chocolate way back when they still had their store in one of the side streets of Rua Escola Politécnica. It wasn’t however until they moved to…
One of the saddest days in the last couple of years was the closing of one of our favorite wine bars, “Os Goliardos”. It truly was a wonderful place and one of our favorite hang out spots on any Friday night. Conveniently situated near Nora’s appartment, it made the not so straight walk back home…
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