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Brazilian-accented wine bar and petiscos in a leafy Principe Real corner
Lisbon's most tasteful quarter of concept stores, garden kiosks and restored mansions.
Príncipe Real is the address Lisbon points to when it wants to show off its taste rather than its history. Nineteenth-century mansions now hold concept stores, interiors showrooms and quiet restaurants, arranged around a garden with a vast cedar that locals treat as a meeting point. It has long been the city's most relaxed gay quarter, and the mix gives it an easy, confident air. Spend an afternoon between the design shops, a slow lunch and the garden kiosk and you understand why people who could live anywhere choose here.
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Brazilian-accented wine bar and petiscos in a leafy Principe Real corner
Low-lit cocktail and oyster bar themed around the printed word
Twelve-seat temple to Portuguese low-intervention wine
Long-running hidden cocktail bar in a Belle Epoque room
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Candlelit Italo-Portuguese small plates with a tight natural list
Henrique Sa Pessoa's tapas-and-petiscos vermouth bar
Vitor Sobral's reinvented corner tavern
Brazilian-founded restaurant, bar and gallery for sharing plates
Globe-trotting small plates and an all-natural drinks list
Counter-driven Japanese tavern in Principe Real
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