Petri
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Was thinking of the forum while having this fish for lunch by the Tagus river..
Fish definitely was the king in Portugal -- we hardly had anything else. One of the places we enjoyed a lot was this restaurant where they offer only "catch of the day" type of fish from the coastal regions. You can buy the fish and take it home for cooking, eat it the traditional way, or have it as a sushi.
(The shellfish were in another cabinet..)
(http://www.peixariamoderna.com/ but the flash check doesn't work with Safari)
Other destination worth a de-tour was Landeau Chocolate. If the only product is a chocolate cake, just one type, they must be doing something right. And they certainly do.
http://www.landeau.pt/ at the LX Factory, behind the police station building. I believe the cake is also available at Vertigo Cafe downtown but we walked to the source -- which probably still didn't burn the amount of calories the cake had.
A nice "skiing holiday" with +23 C sun shine and wearing a T-shirt at the street corner coffee shops. While the weather back home was sunny, you can't do that in the -20 C. Just a quick trip to Lisbon and day-trip to Sintra, never been to Portugal before.
Fish definitely was the king in Portugal -- we hardly had anything else. One of the places we enjoyed a lot was this restaurant where they offer only "catch of the day" type of fish from the coastal regions. You can buy the fish and take it home for cooking, eat it the traditional way, or have it as a sushi.
(The shellfish were in another cabinet..)
(http://www.peixariamoderna.com/ but the flash check doesn't work with Safari)
Other destination worth a de-tour was Landeau Chocolate. If the only product is a chocolate cake, just one type, they must be doing something right. And they certainly do.
http://www.landeau.pt/ at the LX Factory, behind the police station building. I believe the cake is also available at Vertigo Cafe downtown but we walked to the source -- which probably still didn't burn the amount of calories the cake had.
A nice "skiing holiday" with +23 C sun shine and wearing a T-shirt at the street corner coffee shops. While the weather back home was sunny, you can't do that in the -20 C. Just a quick trip to Lisbon and day-trip to Sintra, never been to Portugal before.