Sombrero (carcavelos-praia)

name: O Sombrero

type place: mexican restaurant

location: avenida marginal 23, carcavelos (entre os dois rotundas no marginal em carcavelos)

tel: 214577368

price idea: less than 30

info: Very good mexican food, nice decoration beautifull seaview great margeritas. What they can improve ? A better readable menu... small print almost invisible for me... The service is not so efficient but friendly. Then the portions... do not go there when you are hungry cause the quality is top but the portions are rather small... just one main dish will not be sufficient for most so look at the appetizers or deserts. But all together if you are craving for a little :) mexican food GO THERE it is good !

mmm: **

Brasa da belavista (sassoeiras)

name: A Brasa da belavista
type place: local portuguese restaurant and grill
location: rua Gonçalo Velho Cabral 90, Sassoeiras, 2775-709 Carcavelos
tel: 214564305
idea: less than 20
info: Good local restaurant. Closed on wednesdays
The restaurant is a big succes, sometimes you have to stand in line to get in. Reservation for bigger groups is a must. The restaurant started as a chicken grill i was told but is now famous for all his grilled dishes. There is a vast variety of dishes but sometimes they are out of my favourites. The whole restaurant has recently been refurbished and it looks a lot better than before. They also serve for take-away and this service seems pretty succesfull too. Try the grilled t-bone (costeleta de novilho) or the espetada saloia (large beef skewer enough for 2) or the ribs (entrecosta) also the fish is very fresh looks very good. Fish by the kilo can give you a pricier bill but if you like grilled fish go for it.
mmm: ****

Caracol (lisboa-bairro alto)

name: O Caracol
type place: local portuguese restaurant
location: rua barroca 14, lisboa (bairro alto)
tel: 213427094
idea: less than 20
info: Bairro alto restaurant. The menu is also available in english. The food was ok but the lack of room made it difficult for me to enjoy it abd it is a very noisy place. One of my friends tried tha pataniscas de bacalhau, a sort of cod fish cake very typical portuguese, and they were exelent. CHeck your bill before we leave we had to ask to alter a 15 euro charge for a bottle of water to 1.5 euro. ???
mmm: *

Tromba rija (lisboa - santos)

name: Trombarija

type place: portuguese buffet restaurant
location: Rua Cintura do Porto de Lisboa – Edifício 254, Armazém I 1200- 109 Lisboa

Tlf: +351 213 971 507 Fax: +351 213 971 203

price idea: +/- 30 euros all included

Info: If you only have one meal to try all portuguese food this is the place to go. They have most of the portuguese tradional dishes and all appetizers and deserts you can imagine. Everything is included. I am normaly not a big fan of buffet restaurants but this one is the best i have been too. Also good for bigger groups an d parties. Try it !

http://www.trombarija.com/
mmm: ***

Hong Sha Long (cascais - perto do estaçao)

name: restaurante japanese
type place: restaurant
location: cascais villa shopping across the railway station of cascais 2750 top floor at the end
tel: 214868673 price idea: less than 10 €
Fun Japanese all you can eat -the food passes you by on a roling carpet- restaurant very reasonalby priced , price quality very good...
cheaper for lunch than for dinner cheaper during the week than on the weekend but always a good deal.. good for a nice 'big' meal not for a romantic dinner
mmm: ***

apeadeiro (cascais centro)

name: restaurante apeadeiro

type place: restaurant

location: av. vasco da gama 252, 2750-509 Cascais

tel: 214832731 price idea: less than 20 € closed on sunday dinner and monday

Nice restaurant, price quality the best we visited so far in centre of cascais

good grilled dishes and apparantly sardines are the speciality but we went twice out the sardine season... visit cascais go here for a lunch or dinner

mmm: ***

casa da quinta (carcavelos -quinta de sao gonçalo)

name: casa da quinta
type place: restaurant and cafe
location: rua da Grécia, 2775-408 Carcavelos (close to praia de carcavelos)
tel: 214582745
price idea: less than 20 € A pleasant surprise, part of the quinta de Sao Gonçalo development. Very good food very friendly service. Modern portuguese with delicate international influences. Again a very nice surprise we had several very good meals there. The steak with gorgonzola sauce is delicious and they have a strawberry sangria that is very good (only when there is fresh strawberries)
mmm: **

o solar de benfica (lisboa-benfica)

name: o solar de benfica
type place: restaurant
location: Travessa da cruxz da era 7, 1500-214 Lisboa (not far from o columbo shopping but not so easy to get too)
tel: 217649274
price idea: less than 20 €
Nice big spacy restaurant portuguese style. Large portions of good food. The eal that a friend ate was very nice, as was my tbone steak, the other dishes served on our table where beef in cream sauce, suckling pig and roasted pork leg. Tried them all and were all good :) and the service is friendly. mmm: ***

movida caffe (oeiras - porto de recreio)

name: movida caffe
type place: restaurant and bar~
location: porto de recreio de oeiras or marina de oeiras (close to Nato HQ and forte de sao juliao)tel: 214437136
price idea: less than 20 € for snacks less than 10 €
Great location and good food. For me the best in the oeiras marina area. The toast (very big toasted sandwiches, salads, burgers and pitas are very good. The service is friendly and they just reopend after doubling their inside space... think this is going to inprove speed on the service (used to be slow when the outside area was full) It is good and the prices acceptable for such a nice location.
mmm: ****

cup of joe (oeiras - porto de recreio)

name: cup of joe
type place: snack bar and bar (nice view on the marina)
location: porto de recreio de oeiras or marina de oeiras (close to Nato HQ and forte de sao juliao)
tel:
price idea: less than 20 €
Great location but go there for a coffee, a special coffee or a drink... the mix drinks or a beer. The food menu is limited they have a few specials daily but nothing special. It was ok but there is better close by if you want to go for that meal. Again this place is not bad but it did not impress.
mmm: *

santo pecado (oeiras - porto de recreio)

name: santo pecado
type place: restaurant and bar
location: porto de recreio de oeiras or marina de oeiras (close to Nato HQ and forte de sao juliao)
tel:
price idea: less than 20 €
Great location bad food small drinks. Go here when all places are full and you are desperate. The service is ok the quality of the food is very poor... ordered a filet steak with green pepper sauce received one with mustard sauce... send it back received same steak same sauce with peppercorns on top... for 15 euros this is stealing certainly when there is other places so close where you can have a better meal. And the fries were cold... the salad was a big plate with green letuce and 2 slices of tomato no seasoning. Ok it was busy but anyway this is very bad... my friends had calamares (small portion of mediocre quality) and the duck rice (arroz de pato) dry but ok-ish
mmm: no star... worst in distrito de lisboa so far !!!

churrasqueira de queijas (oeiras alto da barra)

name: churrasqueira de queijas
type place: churrasqueira and snack bar
location: Avenida Descoberatas no CC Alto Barra, Oeiras (close to Nato HQ )
tel: 214443079
price idea: less than 20 €
a typical churrasqueira hidden away in the CC. Not a fancy dinner place but great for a quick meal on the go. We go and get fresh grilled chicken there and entrecosta (ribs) Writing about it makes me already hungry. The chickens are good size there... for take out i hear you say who cares cause you pay per kilo... but hey skinny catwalk chickens have hardly any meat and are very dry... the chicken here is GOOD.

mmm: ***

Khim Bahadur Gurung (carcavelos centro)

name: Khim Bahadur Gurung
place: indian restaurant
location: R Cândido Reis 29 2775-558 CARCAVELOS
tel: 214 567 743
price idea: about 15 €
info: good indian restaurant, friendly service... The food was very good and not expensive. It is adapted to the portuguese palate... the first time i was tempted to add hot sauce to indian food. mmm: ***

restaurante kita kata (carcavelos centro)

name: kita kata
type place: asian restaurant and take away
location: rua dr Jose Joaquim de Almeida, nº 622-B, 2775-594 Carcavelos (perto do Banco Espirito Santo no centro de Carcavelos)
tel: 214575862 price idea: about 15 €
info: chinese and japanese dishes. A small local restaurant but with pretty tasty food and a remarkable lunch menu for 5 euros !!! Springroll choise of 4 mains and coffee... beat this !
The also have sushi but we have not tried it yet... will let you know soon
mmm: ***

adega já fumega (liboa-campo ourique)

name: adega já fumega
type place: portuguese restaurant
location: rua de campo ourique 11-13, 1250 - 059 Lisboa (campo ourique) -
tel: 213883225
price idea: less than 20 €
info: Good restaurant, parking at night is not so easy but that is not new for lisbon is it. Good service... Good food. Extensive choise of portuguese dishes on the regular menu and many specials. Try it. Also good to go with a group. Not for romantic dinners.
mmm: ***

casa mia (lisboa -sete rios)

name: casa mia
type place: italian restaurant
location: Av. Columbano Bordal Pinheiro, nº 101 A-B 1070 - 063 Lisboa (perto sete rios)
tel: 217269423
price idea: about 20 €
info: Good restaurant, parking at night is not so easy but parking lots near by and very accessable by public transport. Remarkable service... I think best friendly and efficient service i have seen so far. And the food was good too. An extensive choice of pasta, pizza, meat and fish dishes... and the desserts are yummie too.
I am personally not a so keen on italian food... but it was fun "suffering" through this restaurant
mmm: ***

torremar (oeiras forte de sao juliao da barra)

name: torremar
type place: portuguese restaurant and grill
location: Avenida Marginal, Oeiras praia de torre (next to forte são Julião da barra)
tel: 214443079
price idea: less than 20 € (fish dishes can be more off course)
info: Good restaurant, excellent location. We had been here a twice before i started to do the blog during the summer months when you can sit outside on the large terrace. The view is very nice the saint Julian castle on one side and the sea and the yacht club on the other side. In the summer you can also enjoy de view of the sunbathing beauties. But we are here to talk about food. I guess without the location I would be less generous with the stars. It is not so perfect ! The meal is always more than acceptable but there is always a slide… this time we got cold fries and the açorda (a typical Portuguese bread mash try it it taste better than it sounds and looks had too much garlic but plenty shrimp) again not bad but not perfect ... Friendly service. You can call ahead to make reservations. Never tried the place for dinner I like it as a lunch place. What is the use to go to a place with a view when it is dark ? Lots of variety both in fish and meat dishes. Açorda and seafood rice dishes are a specialty. I liked the tuna with pepper sauce.
A meal with a view
mmm: ***

tasca velha (carcavelos - rebelva)

name: tasca velha
type place: portuguese restaurant and grill
location: Carcavelos, estrada principal da rebelva 408, rebelva
tel: 214570918 price idea: less than 20 €
info: V ery good restaurant. We had been here before i started to do the blog but i did not have the adress or anything... that is why i have not written about it. But it is worth the wait and worth the visit. Tasty apetizers and homemade deserts and in between a vast choise of main courses. Sounds a familiar recepy but it is brought here very well. Good friendly service no frills but you can pick this place for every ocasion, with friends, family or even a business dinner nice enough but abolutely no pretention. The main courses are devided in a meat, fish and shelfish selection but on top of that there are more than 10 daily specials! Go there and enjoy a taste of portugal at his best.
mmm: ****

peter sports bar (oeiras - porto de recreio)

name: peter sports bar
type place: "trendy" restaurant and bar
location: oeiras in the new porto recreio marina
tel:
µrice idea: less than 20
info: spectacular view to the lisbon "25 april" bridge and the sea. It is the biggest establishment in that area besides the rio's. The boss or maitre d'hotel made a big mistake making us feel real unwelcome when he came to tell us the table we were sitting was reserved. There was no sign or nobody told us when we were sitting down. Probably my angry face made him change his mind. We could stay at the table. The food was only so-so. My dish was good, i had 'polvo guisado' but my guests did not seem too happy. A mixed toast (from a separate menu; apparantly they have a different menu for outside and inside) was very dry but this was after they politely took it back to the kitchten after bringing it out the first time cause the guest just started there fishsoup that they chose as a first. Another of my guests received a small not so nice looking steak. A more pricy dish, but a very taste fish was the "goraz". I never heard of this fish before but it was a nice grilled fish. Very robalinho like. . Peter or the sports bar or sportbar or whatever the name is; has to get their act straight. They only opened a couple of weeks ago so let us give them some credit, we will keep you posted. But being friendly to guest and not telling them off is a first rule. Make them feel ok and then giving them good food would make this place a big succes cause it is very well located.
mmm: *

tia alice (negrais 30 Km NW of lisbon)

name: tia alice
type place: tipical negrais restaurant
location: largo do rossio, negrais +/-30kms from lisboa
tel: 219279467
http://www.tia-alice.com/
price idea: less than 20€
info: Good suckling pig restaurant. Something different If you like suckling pig or you never tried it then give it a go. It is quite good. If you do not plan on trying it don't go tru the effort. Unless you like to see the countryside north of Lisboa. A pleasant ride and not too far. It is part of the city of Sintra but still a 20 km drive form the center of Sintra. Service was ok, there was a waiting line outside. Specially on sundays this is a very popular destination for sunday lunch.
Try it not bad at all and something different !
mmm: ***