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Vegetarian and vegan restaurants in Lisbon and Porto
From traditional to fast food vegetarian
The Portuguese gastronomy is mostly
comprised of fish or meat, however, during your travels, you can also indulge
in some vegetarian and vegan options.
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The best Portuguese food and the most traditional dishes
A gastronomic journey through Portugal
Turn
your trip to Portugal into a gastronomic one. Taste the best food and the most
typical dishes while you visit us.
Traditional delicacies
The most famous pastel de Belém, is typical of Lisbon. You can also find queijadinhas (Sintra), soft eggs (Aveiro), Berliners (Portuguese version), which youll even see at the beach, pastel de Tentúgal and many more!
Francesinha
This is the most typical dish in Porto, after tripas à moda do Porto (traditional stew of beans with meat). This dish is a sandwich with different types of meat, cheese and spicy tomato sauce. Its garnished with chips.
Bread
Throughout the entire day, there will always be bread on the table. From north to south, it comes in different shapes and flavours, from wheat bread to Alentejo-style bread, rye and corn, and even broa de Avintes (brown corn and rye bread). We start at breakfast, with toast, and use it to prepare some of our traditional dishes.
Soup
Our soup is healthy and delicious. Its traditionally made with a base of liquid mashed potatoes, mixed with different vegetables and seasoned with salt and olive oil. The most traditional one is caldo verde (Portuguese green broth) which, in addition to cabbage and potato, has pork sausage slices.
Grilled sardines
June is the month for grilled sardines. Throughout the entire country, people celebrate the Popular Saints, and the favourite dish for this occasion is grilled sardines, on bread or in the plate, with a side of boiled potatoes and vegetables.
Beans or tomato rice
We eat a lot of rice cooked in different ways, with vegetables, for example. We highlight the beans rice or the tomato rice and suggest you choose to garnish it with petinga (small fried sardines) or pataniscas (fried codfish).
Codfish
Its said that we have 1001 cod recipes. In Portugal, youll find many dishes with this ingredient in the most traditional restaurants, from Brás-style codfish (salted cod, scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and marinated olives), to codfish with cream or bread, or Gomes de Sá-style codfish (boiled codfish with potatoes, egg and olives), which are the most common codfish dishes and originate from different regions of the country.
Portuguese sausages
From cold cuts - including smoked ham - to alheira (meat sausage) and roasted pork sausage. It's usually accompanied by cheese, which you can also find all over the country, bread (of course!) and a glass of wine. Perfect for a meal at the end of the day.
Portuguese stew
Made of different types of meat (mainly pork), Portuguese sausages, boiled cabbage and vegetables, with a side of boiled potatoes. Throughout the country there are also different ways of eating it, but the base is always the same.
Seafood rice
Made of different types of seafood, such as prawns and mussels, the base for this dish is sautéed tomato with olive oil and onion. The rice is added at the end, with a tendency to be a little spicy.
Grilled fresh fish
From north to south, along the entire coast, the fish is simple, grilled and seasoned with just olive oil and salt. It can be served with different side dishes, from boiled or roasted potatoes to vegetables.
Bulhão Pato-style clams
A classic that is perfect in the summer, enjoyed on a terrace by the sea. This is a dish in which the clam sauce, made of olive oil, garlic and cilantro, is the star for its smell and flavour.
Polvo à Lagareiro
More traditional in the north, this dish is made of roasted octopus drizzled with hot olive oil and garlic, served with a side of roasted potatoes.
Alentejo-style pork meat
More traditional in the south, but you can find it in any typical restaurant, this dish is cooked with clams, pork meat, paprika, laurel, wine and garlic, among other ingredients. Its garnished with fried potatoes cut into small cubes.
Codfish croquettes
The first recipe of this delicacy dates from the 20th century! This is a fried dough made of potato and codfish.
Roasted chestnuts
Autumn is synonym of roasted chestnuts! Both in Lisbon and Porto, as soon as you start feeling the cold weather, you'll also find the smoke and pleasant scent of roasted chestnuts coming from the vendor's wagon.
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Portuguese gastronomy is varied, with delicacies from the north to the south, which reflect the different regional cultures, and it's frequent to find options in which meat and fish are the stars. The influence is Atlantic and Mediterranean, as you can see by the amount of fish that is traditionally consumed and by the trilogy of bread, wine and olive oil, that is so well-known. In addition to the culinary diversity from north to south, the same dish can also be prepared differently depending on the region, so pay attention!
You'll find a lot of meat, mainly pork, but also a lot of fish, preferably fresh! Here, soup is one of the healthiest options, and they are as abundant as they are amazing.
Join us on this journey through Portuguese food, full of colours, scents and flavours.
Follow our tips and enjoy!
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