The Best Restaurants in Portugal
Chef Ricardo Costa conjures up elegant compositions from the country's best ingredients. Using Portuguese flavours and preparation methods, he creates a contemporary national cuisine in a class of its own. The Yeatman wine list is equally impressive.
Alma - soul - is the name of the restaurant run by award-winning chef Henrique Sá Pessoa. Here you can enjoy elegant, contemporary, soulful Portuguese cuisine in a particularly beautiful dining room in a robust 18th century villa.
A restaurant couldn't be more beautifully situated: right on the beach with a view of the Atlantic Ocean. Michelin-starred chef Rui Paula serves a menu with 6, 12 or 21 courses, and his delicate dishes can also be ordered à la carte. There is also a fine selection of wines.
The Antiquum is not only one of the best restaurants in the city, it is also one of the most idyllic, thanks to its location in the "Museu Romantico" in a park. The creative cuisine consists mainly of local produce, spiced up with international delicacies.
The cuisine at Kabuki in Lisbon's Four Seasons Ritz hotel skillfully combines elements of Japanese and Mediterranean tradition. A lot of excellent Portuguese seafood is used. The wine list is also excellently stocked.
The Vila Foz hotel restaurant is located in an old villa in the upscale Foz district. Elegant, modern cuisine with a focus on fish and seafood is served in the stylish gas room, accompanied by a selection of wines from all of Portugal's top names.
Euskalduna Studio looks like a Japanese gourmet restaurant, has a Basque name and serves products from Portugal. Chef Vasco Coelho Santos skillfully blurs the boundaries of gastronomic art to create a unique, modern experience.
Chef Pedro Lemos has opened his restaurant in a former home in the elegant coastal district of Foz do Douro. It offers several tasting menus focusing on the best produce that the Portuguese sea and the mainland have to offer.
Ljubomir Stanisic breaks boundaries and traditions here. The Bosnian chef came to Portugal as a teenager and began cooking to overcome his war trauma. His creativity gives rise to wild, modern and, above all, incredibly tasty dishes.
Cura offers light contemporary cuisine made from regional ingredients. Chef Pedro Pena blends local traditions with international flavours and techniques. There are three menus, the "Meia Cura", the "Origens" and the vegetarian "Raízes".
Here you can enjoy delicious Michelin-starred cuisine that is rooted in Portuguese cuisine. In addition to a tasting menu with more modern dishes, traditional dishes can be ordered à la carte. The service and wine list meet the same high standards.
In this restaurant by celebrity chef José Avillez, the focus is on vegetables. All dishes are vegetarian, but balanced enough that meat fans shouldn't miss anything. There is also an exciting drinks pairing with or without alcohol.
Fifty Seconds offers modern Michelin-starred cuisine with a wonderful view. The lift ride to the restaurant, 120 metres above the ground, takes exactly 50 seconds. Chef Martín Berasategui and his team will spoil you there.
The open kitchen serves a single 16-course menu each evening, prepared from the best that the local market has to offer. A zero-waste philosophy is followed. Vegetarians are not catered for here, as the menu is not adapted.
Traditional Portuguese cuisine with high standards has been served here since 1989. No wonder this pretty restaurant is always well frequented by tourists and local regulars. Hospitality and food are served here with great generosity.
Epur is hidden behind the façade of a time-honoured villa on one of the city's seven hills. Not only does it offer a wonderful view over the city, but also elegant contemporary cuisine made from the best local produce.
Feitoria is one of the country's most popular gourmet restaurants. Head chef André Cruz uses modern cooking techniques to bring Portuguese cuisine into the 21st century. The result is very tasty dishes that are beautiful to look at.
Award-winning French chef Julien Montbabut takes his guests on a gastronomic journey through Portugal. He has found inspiration in every corner of the country, and his tasting menu allows you to share in his discoveries.
Only the freshest seafood and the best fish are cooked in the time-honoured Marisqueira Antiga, mostly from local waters. There is also a fantastic selection of wines from all corners of the country.
Those who climb up to Suba are rewarded with wonderful views over the city of seven hills. But that's not all: the modern Portuguese delicacies that come out of the kitchen and the attentive service can easily keep up with the panorama.