Comments on: Coming Home to Lisbon http://leitesculinaria.com/10266/writings-lisbon-portugal-restaurants-travel.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Recipes, Food, and Cooking Blog Tue, 22 May 2012 06:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Leite http://leitesculinaria.com/10266/writings-lisbon-portugal-restaurants-travel.html#comment-33102 David Leite Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:49:35 +0000 http://leitesculinaria.com/wordpress/?p=10266#comment-33102 Sofia, thanks for the info. I think our readers will be able to add a few more restaurants to their lists when they travel to Portugal. Sofia, thanks for the info. I think our readers will be able to add a few more restaurants to their lists when they travel to Portugal.

]]> By: Sofia http://leitesculinaria.com/10266/writings-lisbon-portugal-restaurants-travel.html#comment-33092 Sofia Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:05:48 +0000 http://leitesculinaria.com/wordpress/?p=10266#comment-33092 David, Loved your writings on old and new Lisbon. It is indeed a city of contrasts, filled with ancient beauty and modern era. As soon as I read the first paragraph I was chuckling as when I moved back home after college with my Irish American husband, his reaction to the way we drive was comparing us to Mario Andretis and that our people are as nice and warm as they are crazy drivers. It certainly seems you have a wonderful experience and am sure there will be many more trips for you to our lovely country. Please let me know as I would love to recommend you new places that DO cook Portuguese cuisine yet with a modern twist. Also even though some may see it as a crime, do try some of the foreign restaurants we do have. I often went to Pap'Açorda and Bota Alta. While living there we would spend our nights in the bars in Bairro Alto and Alcântara area. The Lisbon nights are extremely vibrant and can be pretty wild yet you you well put with a maternal feel to them too. There are two older restaurants that in my mind are musts. The first being Sua Excelência and the other Gambrinus. Both are NOT budget conscious but so very good. The first is one of my favorite. There is no menu as the owner recites it and guides you to choose wisely. In terms of modern type of restaurants I would say Eleven may be my latest favorite! David, Loved your writings on old and new Lisbon. It is indeed a city of contrasts, filled with ancient beauty and modern era. As soon as I read the first paragraph I was chuckling as when I moved back home after college with my Irish American husband, his reaction to the way we drive was comparing us to Mario Andretis and that our people are as nice and warm as they are crazy drivers.

It certainly seems you have a wonderful experience and am sure there will be many more trips for you to our lovely country. Please let me know as I would love to recommend you new places that DO cook Portuguese cuisine yet with a modern twist. Also even though some may see it as a crime, do try some of the foreign restaurants we do have. I often went to Pap’Açorda and Bota Alta. While living there we would spend our nights in the bars in Bairro Alto and Alcântara area. The Lisbon nights are extremely vibrant and can be pretty wild yet you you well put with a maternal feel to them too.

There are two older restaurants that in my mind are musts. The first being Sua Excelência and the other Gambrinus. Both are NOT budget conscious but so very good. The first is one of my favorite. There is no menu as the owner recites it and guides you to choose wisely. In terms of modern type of restaurants I would say Eleven may be my latest favorite!

]]> By: David Leite http://leitesculinaria.com/10266/writings-lisbon-portugal-restaurants-travel.html#comment-415 David Leite Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:50:41 +0000 http://leitesculinaria.com/wordpress/?p=10266#comment-415 Iberia, my pleasure. So glad you liked the article. Iberia, my pleasure. So glad you liked the article.

]]> By: Iberia Soares http://leitesculinaria.com/10266/writings-lisbon-portugal-restaurants-travel.html#comment-413 Iberia Soares Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:46:38 +0000 http://leitesculinaria.com/wordpress/?p=10266#comment-413 Love your article regarding Lisbon. I live in Canada, but I was born in the Azores. Visited Lisbon and S. Portugal on two different occasions; it was just a teaser, there is so much to see and do. This article brought such found memories and created a thirst for more.... Thank you, iberia Love your article regarding Lisbon. I live in Canada, but I was born in the Azores. Visited Lisbon and S. Portugal on two different occasions; it was just a teaser, there is so much to see and do. This article brought such found memories and created a thirst for more….

Thank you,

iberia

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