What after all of these years of cooking still fascinates me the most is the ephemeral nature of summer ingredients: peaches, apricots, peas, snow peas, broad beans, sprouting broccoli, cherries, the best, most plump and fleshy tomatoes… It’s summer in Portugal and all of a sudden the markets and vegetable shops are brimming with it…
Hey there Come Prima! We visited you a couple of weeks ago for lunch during Lisbon Restaurant Week. It took us some weeks to get back to you, for which we deeply apologize, but now we finally have some spare time and here’s what we think. Since it was Lisbon restaurant week, for 20 euros…
It was a cold Saturday evening when we went astray in a neighbourhood that we – after the sad loss of Crêperia da Ribeira – tend to avoid these days: Cais do Sodré. Time Out has taken over the area by creating the “perfect” gastronomic shopping centre, Mercado da Ribeira, offering a vast choice of dishes…
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,…
(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…
We don’t quite dare to say that Gelato Mú offers the best ice cream in Lisbon as we haven’t been to all ice cream parlours yet. However, they surely offer authentic Italian gelato of a quality that has very little comparison in Portugal. Even though it is tucked away on a hill between the blue…
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…
Normally, Italian restaurants in Lisbon are not fantastic: either they serve dishes which would make any Italian “mamma” cry tomato juice or which specialize in great pizzas and bland pasta dishes. A good, creamy risotto? Not in a million years. Make way for Bella Ciao then, which seems to attract quite a substantial Italian crowd.…
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