SushiCafé Oeiras

Another SushiCafé that didn't disappoint ... The only thing I have to point is that I would like to see this restaurant in a location that would favor it more ... The sushi is too good for a Shopping Center ... The lucky is that there is some separation from this space and the others "Fast Food" corners (and thankfully).

SushiCafe Avenida

Today was sushi day. This restaurant was on my list "Restaurants to go as soon ass possible" and after I tried a few delicacies at "Peixe em Lisboa" the need become even bigger.... and today was the day.

A lot of peoples say that this restaurant has the best sushi in Lisbon... in my opinion it depends the concept of Lisbon... if it is the city itself! Yes! I agreed... but if they are considering the Greater Lisbon (which include Cascais, Sintra and so on) I disagree but it is definitely in the Top 3. 

The place is real cool... modern, simplistic... fitted to the type of cuisine.

Restaurant "Flores do Bairro"

This restaurant was a completely strange to me until the event "Peixe em Lisboa"...and this is why I love so much this kind of events... we have the opportunity to meet new people and specially different places that we didn't know that they exist.

So! This restaurant is located in Chiado (Lisbon) and it is part of the Bairro Alto Hotel (a 5-start hotel). The restaurant is very cozy and small, in my opinion, it has the perfect size... but also has a big disadvantage! it doesn't have direct access to the street. Passing outside you don't even notice that there are a great restaurant there.

Peixe em Lisboa - 2015

This event is always really exciting... its all about the quality and the fish (mostly!!! they also have meat dishes).

"Peixe em Lisboa" takes place at Patéo da Galé (Terreiro do Paço), one of the most emblematic places of Lisbon, even from Portugal, and gathers all this amazing and talent chef (in one place!!!)... Perfect!

I can try all the spectacular dishes without leaving the place... 

Just a few names that will make you "jealous", if you haven't gone there yet... 

- Chef José Avillez (2 michelin star): Belcanto, Café Lisboa, Mini Bar, Cantinho do Avillez

- Chef Kiko Martins: A Cevicheria, O Talho

- Chef Milton Anes: Arola

- Chef Vitor Sobral e Chef Hugo Nascimento: Tasca da Esquina, Cervejaria da Esquina 

- Chef Justa Nobre: O Nobre, Nobre Estoril

But the list continues:

- Sushi Café

- Las Ficheras

- Pap'Açorda

- Ribamar

- Taberna Rua das Flores & Flores do Bairro

Obviously I try as much as I could...

I start with...

TABIK

The type of restaurant that was missing at Avenida da Liberdade... Fine dining that respects the Portuguese cuisine and all its traditional products without being innovative and creative.

The restaurant itself is very interesting... Right for all types of customer. We can divide the restaurant in three different areas. The back, much more reserved (that everyone can use), in the middle it is the Bar, tall tables and a great selection of gins and finally the entrance, a lot of light and for me best one. 

Before talking about the food I have to say that the service was perfect. Friendly people... Always tried and worried to know if everything was alright and if we are likening... And the best part was that the feedback that you give they make sure to pass the message to the kitchen.

Regarding the food... As you can notice from previous post Every time I can I choose the tasting Menu, and this time was no exception. So the menu has 6 dishes (2 starters, fish, meat, pre-dessert and dessert).

Este Oeste

Food from the West to the East... It starts in Japan, with sushi, and ends in Italy, with pizzas! A very risky stratagy sice its two very different kind of cusines.

The space itself is amazing... starting with the main entrance where it is the bar. The all environment floats around this giant round sofa in the middle!!! the perfect place to spend the afternoon...

Passing to the restaurant! a very clean and modern decoration, very well adjusted to building itself (Centro Cultural de Belém). However, I don't know if it was just on that day or not, but I felt that the tables were really close from each other.      

Before I start "talking" about the food, I need to highlight the service... the employees were very nice, helpful and thoughtful.

About the Food... this time we choose the East side!

Assinatura

Assinatura! A restaurant that should be located in one of the best avenues of Lisbon. Its location its not bad but deserved a more emblematic and premium location. 

The restaurant itself is quite cozy and pleasant. Great to catch up with a friend, for special occasions... in fact great for any occasion... due to the amazing food. 

Since we start talking about the food... the menu is small (as it should be... do a few but do it really well) and has great choices... making the decision process a little bit hard...

Bastardo

Bastardo restaurant is located at Rossio Square, Lisbon.

This restaurant belongs to the International Design Hotel.

I liked a lot and it didn't disappoint. Since it is a new space the opinions are a little bit divergent... so I will give mine. 

Starting with the location! This restaurant has, definitely, one of the best location of Lisbon (with a great view over one of the most famous and recognized Squares of Portugal), but with the location came a lot of competition. 

For me this space has the disadvantage of belonging to a hotel, which means that a person needs to enter in the hotel to go there... which can be a lit bit intimidating... But not for me =D since the day one that I wanted to go there.  

The space is very cool and smartly decorated... different chair in every table, pop-art pictures and a trendy bar the back of the room. 

About the food...

ENTRA

A restaurant located in industrial area of Marvila. Restaurant ENTRA serves amazing food, in a very relax space with an exquisite service.  

It's true that the area is not the best... but I don't care! I only care about the food that they served... and they served us consistent food through the entire meal.

Even with the complete restaurant booked... you don't see the staff run over each other.   

Regarding the food...

Volver by Chakall

I don't know why! But I took a while to go to this restaurant... I only heard the best comments e reviews about it... Thanks to Zomato the wait is over.

Volver by Chakall is this incredible restaurant known for its amazing meat.   

My expectations were on the roof.

The restaurant its not located in the city center but has the plus of having a lot of parking! A great plus!...

So about the food...

Apicius

My first Foodie Meetup with Zomato...


For those who doesn't know Zomato an online platform where you can find the restaurants around you and, after you visit them, you can write your opinion about it.

So in the other they invited a group of foodies, including me, to have dinner at Apicius... and the theme of the dinner was FOIE GRAS... Luxury =P.

The food wasn't made just for us... They served us dishes that they have in their current menu... Since the all purpose of this meetup was to shoe us this new restaurant and his menu.

The restaurant has a really cool vibe, very relaxed and its very well decorated.

So about the food...

Favas Contadas 3rd edition - 3 chefs

The restaurant Conceito Food Store is celebrating it's 3rd anniversary and what a better way than with a Favas Contadas event.

For this event Chef Daniel Estriga (owner of Conceito Food Store) invited Nelson Guerreiro (from Enotéca Belém) to do the wine pairing, Pastry Chef Gonçalo Morgado (from Oitavos Hotel) for the dessert and the Chef Manuel Line (and his team), and together they created one of the most amazing dinner that I had. 

About the last one... I start following his work since his project at Jour to Cook (at Com.horta, Comporta) and I get even more excited when I saw the dishes that he presented at CNC (Congresso Nacional de Cozinheiros) - The National Congress of Chefs... So I don't need to say that when I saw he was one of the chefs invited for this dinner I had to booked immediately.  

He likes to present simple food but very creative and with a lot of flavor... And the best part is that they will open a restaurant, in Avenida da Liberdade, called TABIK... (I can't wait to go there).

So for this dinner, they used, mainly, seasonal products floating between the sea and earth in a really clever way.

So let's see the food...   

Cafetaria Mensagem - Altis Belém Hotel and Spa

Finally I when to Cafetaria Mensagem... 

Cafetaria Mensagem is one of the restaurants of Altis Belem Hotel & SPA.

This hotel has 1 michelin star restaurant, Feitoria Restaurant and Wine bar (headed by Chef João Rodrigues) - Also on my wishlist - So you could say that Cafetaria Mensagem is "the little brother" with a lot of potential.

The restaurant is located between Padrão dos Descobrimentos and Torre de Belém, with an amazing view over Tagus river. The space is very simple and not overdecorated.

Since it is integrated in a 5-star hotel, the service is impeccable.

This restaurant is famous for it's Brunches but deserve must more.

So let's talk about the food...    

Sea Me - Peixaria Moderna

Sea Me - Peixaria Moderna is a really cool restaurant dedicated to the fish.

Lisbon downtown has the most amazing restaurant and this one is one of them.

Fully dedicated to the fish the restaurant present three different concepts in one place...

Bar...

Sushi-Bar...

Restaurant...

Each one with their own menu... 

AdLib

Another Restaurant Week... 

Restaurant week once again and this time I went to AdLib (Sofitel hotel, Avenida da Liberdade).

This restaurant was on my list for a while but I never had the chance to try it.

There are a lot of good restaurants at Avenida da Liberdade (the most expensive avenue in Portugal)... and this one is one of them.

The restaurant is very classy... mixing the modern with tradition... with  great advantage of having an exterior entrance... which mean that you don't have enter in the hotel to go to the restaurant.

Let's talk about the food...

Atalho Real

ATALHO Real is a restaurant located at Principe Real.

The restaurant makes part of the project Embaixada concept Store ( an old building that was refurbished and has this really different stores).

This restaurant is the perfect place for meat lovers... and why? because it's specialty in the Meat... they are like a butcher... different types of meat for all kinds of people... 

I know!... We all have that friend who doesn't eat meat! Right... but they also have vegetarian dish, so you have no excuses. Go there and try it.

Let's talk about the food...

Brunch at Grande Real Villa Itália

Let's go brunch...

So in the other day I went to a brunch... yeah! It was my first brunch.

There is nothing better then gathering a few close friends and go to nice restaurant to eat.

So we went to Restaurante Navegante at Grande Real Villa Itália Hotel in Cascais.

Favas Contadas 2.0 - Appearances can be deceiving

What to say about a dinner made by pastry chefs... On the 22 and 23 of August, at Conceito Food Store restaurant (driven by the Chef Daniel Estriga) , took place the second dinner of Favas Contadas. This event has as main goal to promote the work of young chefs.

I have to say that it was an outstanding dinner... full of surprises!!!! 

In this this dinner most of the dishes resembled a dessert or a sweet... and all of them were followed by this amazing cocktail created by "Ás de Copos" bar. 

Needless to say that the expectations were high due the success of the first event.

As I mentioned in the previews post the chefs were: 

• Chef Daniel Estriga
• Chef Diogo Lopes (pastry Chef)
• Sara Soares (Pastry Chef)
• Zé Pedro (Pastry Chef)

To know more about this chef see the last post.  
And the cocktail were responsability of:

• Miguel Tojal (bartender) and owner of "Ás de Copos" bar

• Website: http://www.asdecopos.com/

But let's talk about the food and the drinks... 

Mercado da Ribeira

A great place to hangout...

Mercado da Ribeira (Ribeira's Market) opened recently close to Cais do Sodré. This new spot brings a new live to this area... if you are visiting Lisbon this is one of the places that you can't miss.