the_lisbon_connection blog

Populi is a trendy place at Praça do Comércio and you can see why the moment you walk in. The décor and environment are young and cool. It has a nice crowd, with quite a few tourists, but not the crazy-lets-take-pictures-of-everything-folks either. Food was nice but it’s a bit pricy.

Restaurant week it’s this awesome initiative someone who clearly loves to eat, came up with. Basically for a week, a group of high priced well known restaurants agree to prepare a special three course menu for only 19+1€. The 1€ is given to charity. It’s a good opportunity to try those places you always wanted to go but price has prevented you to do so. So last night I went to La Trattoria, a Lisbon long time classic for Italian food. I had the best mushroom soup I have had in my life and then a delicious truffle pasta. Definitely a place to repeat!

Brunch at Chef Nino - Lx Factory Brunch is such a lovely invention! In Portugal brunch is done a special way!  There will be no mimosas and eggs are an option, not a rule! Still it’s quite amazing to get everybody together for a late breakfast/ light lunch altogether. I normally go with friends and we just love to sit around, take our time trying all the delicious options, enjoying the good company and the chance to catch up with everything that’s been going on in each other’s lives. Yesterday I tried another great Brunch in Lisbon! This time in LX Factory! I had been to Café da Fábrica about a year or so ago on a beautiful summer day. This time we tried Chef Nino’s brunch. They don’t accept reservations and the place is quite small, so the best way to get a table is to be there right when it opens at 12:30. We arrived a little past one and had to wait around 20minutes but the staff is very nice, they will keep your phone number and give you a call whenever the table be...

Pizza for the second time in a week, hum... you could mistake me for a pizza fan! This time Forno D’Oro was the place. It’s a recently open pizza place in Rua Artilharia I right in Lisbon Center. I heard a lot of talk about this white and gold décor restaurant, mostly known by its pizzas and of course it’s beautiful Golden Oven. The pizzas dominate their menu, with only a few choices of meat and pasta – this is fatal for me as I always intend to go for pasta. Anyway since that’s what they are known for I also had pizza. Their pizzas are quite good.   Small in size which compensate with a tall, fluffy dough. They do try to innovate by having some pizzas with Portuguese ingredients such as our several types of chorizos, Francesinha’s sauce and cod fish. I appreciate the effort but for me pizza is Italian so no weird adventures. We had a reservation so we got a place right away, but I figure it’s a no can do without one. Parking was a bit hard and, because it was Saturday, the...