Στέκια in Lisbon

Candlelit Italo-Portuguese small plates with a tight natural list

Art Deco Rossio café with a literary past since 1929

Specialty coffee and real-food brunch in a former pharmacy

Lisbon's oldest pastry house, family-run since 1829

Community kitchen where the neighbourhood cooks together

Tiny, tightly edited specialty bar by Principe Real

Mid-century landmark hotel above the park with a serious dining stable

Stone-milled Portuguese-grain bread from Alcantara

Eight-seat kaiseki counter from Paulo Morais

The cult pastel de nata, freshly gonged, minus the Belém queue

Lisbon's oldest restaurant, Pessoa's café since 1782

Adults-only design hotel with the best terrace over Alfama's rooftops

Multi-room live-music cocktail bar off the Pink Street strip

1943 pastelaria, repeat 'best pastel de nata' winner

Globe-trotting small plates and an all-natural drinks list

Fifteen-room townhouse hotel with a garden-fed kitchen

1933 grand hotel anchoring the avenue's luxury axis

Restored 18th-century palace above the Bica miradouro

Belgian-Portuguese dining in a 17th-century convent cloister

Chef Hugo Brito's deconstructed Portugal in a former Alfama butcher shop

Slow-fermented artisan bakery from Vitor Sobral & Mário Rolando

Palace-turned-suites hotel atop Bairro Alto