A Taste of Lisbon

The newest restaurants in Lisbon

Despite the crisis, there are certain sectors that are still bubbling. In a city where people take great pleasure in eating, drinking and socialising, the restaurant business keeps bringing around new hip places.

Rossio Restaurante Bar

At the top of the five-star contemporary Altis Avenida Hotel, centrally located on the Avenida da Liberdade, is the stunning Rossio Restaurante Bar. With French inspired dishes, this modern restaurant excels for the friendly and sophisticated service and the unbeatable panoramic views.

Executive Chefs: José Avillez

The true nature of Portuguese cuisine is maintained with the appearance of new, young, active and innovative Chefs, that dedicate their working lives to creating a better environment at the Portuguese table. This is the case of José Avillez, who believes that to sit at a table is much more than just eating, it is a social and a familiarising activity. Through his project, “Life style cooking”, José Avillez aimed at improving the Portuguese gastronomic culture by producing dishes that enhance the flavours of Portuguese traditional cooking and by teaching people how to cook through classes and cook-books.

Chocolate in Lisbon: choose your favourite flavour

One of the best things about winter is getting warm. Warming up the fire place, warming up your hands on a cup of tea, getting warm under a blanket, warming up your sweet tooth with some hot chocolate, warming up your appetite with dark chocolate with nuts and caramel, or maybe a white chocolate, or chocolate with a tint of a taste of roses, warming up your curiosity with tomato and olive oil flavoured chocolate, or truffles, or orange tasting chocolates...

The Sushi Trail

Sometimes a simple smell or taste can make you travel to far away lands. A combination of colours, of architecture or aesthetics may make you feel like you have just walked through a door and into a whole new world. Encountering new flavours and scents, new cultures and ways of life may be just at your doorstep. Whilst in Lisbon, experiment some of the best Japanese food you may find. Portugal has a coast rich in fish, and its cooking culture has influenced some of the Japanese dishes, such as those made with tempura. Lisbon is an ideal city to try some wonders from the orient. The moment you open the door to a sushi restaurant in Lisbon, you are welcomed into a new world, with the softness and kindness so characteristic of Japan. The atmosphere is soothing and friendly, inviting you to sit and enjoy the thousands of flavours the Japanese cuisine so proudly maintains and nurtures.

Executive Chef: Vítor Sobral

The Portuguese cuisine no longer consists only of heavy meals with a bunch of strong (and tasty) flavours, but rather it has evolved at a hallucinating speed and many new chefs have emerged on the scene. Each in their own way, these chefs are creators, developing a new concept of Portuguese cuisine that uses national ingredients, but in a more appealing, original and creative way. Gone are the days when the best restaurants in town were only the Italian or the Japanese restaurants.

One figure who gave life to this new phase of cooking is Vítor Sobral. With light green eyes and a friendly smile, Vítor Sobral and his crew not only manage one of the best restaurants in Lisbon - Tasca da Esquina, but also create new dishes and flavours on a daily basis.

Restaurants: The 16 most trendy in Lisbon

Lisbon is under constant innovation. Every day there is a new exhibition, a new restaurant, a new bar, or a new store. In every corner of the city a new concept flourishes with a decoration never seen before. Lisbon is increasingly focused on design and modernisation. Restaurants are an example. Increasingly experimentalist, original and creative, the cuisine is still faithful to the flavours of the highest quality ingredients. These spaces are more than interesting, they are unrepeatable. We present here a list of the trendiest restaurants in Lisbon.

The “Classic” Restaurants in Lisbon

If there are people who arrive in Lisbon and have never heard about Gambrinus or Faz Figura, little have they heard about Lisbon. Those restaurants that have been on the top quality restaurant list for over ten years and are what we call the “Classics”. But more than based on longevity, this term applies to those restaurants that have stood out for their special and traditional service that has become familiar to locals. Those restaurants that maintain their cooking loyal to the typical Portuguese flavours and a decoration that makes them stand out for a particular reason.

These are the restaurants that have become a reference in Lisbon. They are an obligatory stop for those who are visiting Lisbon for a short, or long, period of time and would like to leave with a real flavour of the city.