Lisbon Recommendations For Friends and Family

First things first: 5 Best Ice Cream Shops 🍦

• Unico Gelato

• Gelato Daverro

• Nannarella

• Niva

• UAO by Mu (PB&J 👍👍👍)

5 Casual Restaurants in Lisbon:

• Cafe Tehran (Beetroot Hummus)

• Agua Pela Barba

• Fiammetta: Italian

• Osteria Cucina di Amici

4 Cute Wine bars with food 🍷🥂

• Senhor Uva: Wine bar + Small plates. Estrella

• Vino Vero

• Flores Da Pampa: Praça Das Flores (Principe Real)

• Magnolia also Praça Das Flores (Principe Real)

5 Cocktail Bars to checkout: 🍸🍹

• Red Frog

• Monkey Mash

• Hot Club: Jazz CLub [Temporarily closed, doing popups]

• Pavillhao Chines: Quirky bar

• Pensao Amor: Bohemian late night bar

Dinner Restaurants With Nice Ambience

These take reservations

Group 1: Go for the food🌟

• TOUTA (Bistro 🌟🌟🌟)

• Essencial (Bistro 🌟🌟🌟)

• Cura (staidish)

• Vibe (set menu - Chiado)

• Gojuu

Group 2: Go for the vibe🌟 (Food is good/fine)

• JncQuoi Avenida (Viby)

• Clube de Jornalistas (chill)

• Brilhante

• JncQuoi Asia/Frou Frou (live music)

• Mona Verde

Group 3: Good food/Good ambience

• No Convento

• Atelier pomme (Bistro)

• Salta (Bistro)

• Black Trumpet

5 Tasty Vegan Restaurants:🍄🍆🫑

• Arkhe ⭐

• Encanto (⭐set menu)

• AO26

• PSY

• The Food Temple

• The green Affair

n+1 Streetfoody spots (That are not Timeout Market)

• Taza Sandwiches (Cais do Sodre)

• Frangasqueira Nacional: BBQ. Try their Mista options (Mixed grill with ribs)

• Lebanese Corner: Solid Shawarma

• Mankooche: Lebanese Manoushe (Thyme Pizza) and other things. Super nice people.

• La Pizza di Nanna: Pizza by the slice (Pizza a Pezzi also nearby)

• Comida Independente: Pastrami Sandwiches

• Mercado de Campo Da Ourique: Small market with food stalls
  (and live music on some days)

• Street smash burgers (smash burgers campo de ourique)

• Focacceria pugliese (Foccaccia: Campo De Ourique)

6 Stunning sunset spots for sundowners 🌅🍹

• Rooftop bar at Palacio Verride (Hotel Rooftop bar almost never crowded great view)

• Torel Palace terrace bar (Or Jardim de Torel if you BYOB)

• Memo Alfama (Hotel bar)

• Memo Principe Real (Hotel bar)

• Miradouro da Senhora do Monte (Cheap, Chill and usually crowded in the summer)

• Sud on the River towards Belem/MAAT

  • Also consider: Sunset Sailboat

5 Legit coffeeshops ☕

• Coppenhagen Coffee Lab [CCL]: Many locations

• Cafe Janis: Cais Do Sodre

• Fabrica Coffee Roasters: a few locations

• Dede’s: 1 main location with food and a popup inside the Glastone (Estrella)

• Melbourne

• *almost all brunch places below have solid coffee
  

  And 2 Tea places

• Le Petit Prince: Cute place. [Permanently closed 🪦😢]

• Tease

9 Brunch Places + Bakeries

• La Boulangerie

• Heim Cafe

• Amelia

• The Mill

• Comoba

• Seagull Method

• WellWell

• Ela Canela

• also CCL has great bakeries

Note on Michelin Starred Restaurants in Lisbon

• Favorites: Encanto and CURA

• Good: Belcanto and Alma

• Fine: Kabuki

• Disappointing: LOCO and Eleven

Other Hit and miss or disappointing:

• Rocco: drink at the bar is nice, food was below expectations

• Taberna da rua das flores is fine but meh

• A Cevicheria used to be a top recommendations: now food is hit or miss and people making the puro sometimes under-deliver.