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…
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…
(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…
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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