The Best Restaurants in Lissabon
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
The Michelin-starred Kanazawa serves traditional Japanese Kaiseki cuisine. For the eight lucky guests seated at the bar, chef Paulo Morais serves plenty of seafood of outstanding quality.
The menu here is omakase, which means "I leave it up to you". Chef Will Vargas uses the freedom of choice he is given to serve classic Japanese food with a twist to the seven guests who fill the restaurant twice a night.
The Prado, in the center of Lisbon, serves a modern, seasonal menu made from the best Portuguese produce. The food is uncomplicated but extremely tasty, accompanied by wines from small producers who work close to nature.
The view from Seen by Olivier over the park and a large part of the city is impressive, and so is the menu. There are exciting dishes and drinks made with ingredients from all over the world. The creative cocktails are particularly popular with the hip crowd.
At SEM, the best ingredients are put in the spotlight. The result is a cuisine that consists exclusively of Portuguese produce, but is modern and international thanks to international cooking techniques. Exciting wine selection with lots of natural wine.
The cooking here is modern and uses seasonal ingredients. The fact that all dishes are vegan is almost irrelevant because regional produce is used to create small gastronomic works of art that meat lovers will enjoy.
Many famous guests have dined in this legendary restaurant in the centre of Lisbon. Since the 1950s, they have been served a large selection of fresh fish and selected seafood, served without much fanfare by old-school waiters.
Coelho da Rocha is located directly opposite the market in Campo de Ourique, a trendy district in the west of the city. Here you can enjoy traditional Portuguese and other Mediterranean dishes made from the best market-fresh produce.
Here you can sit right on the riverbank and take a gastronomic journey through Portugal's former empire. National dishes meet South American, African and Asian dishes to create a harmonious and, above all, delicious overall picture.
This modern restaurant serves Portuguese-Asian fusion cuisine with a breathtaking view of the harbour and city. If you just want to stop by for a drink, sit in the bar area, but it's definitely worth ordering something to eat.