Στέκια in Lisbon

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

Candlelit Italo-Portuguese small plates with a tight natural list

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

Art Deco Rossio café with a literary past since 1929

Italian-grandmother cooking in a former Beato video shop

Specialty coffee and real-food brunch in a former pharmacy

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

Family tinned-fish house unchanged since 1930

Community kitchen where the neighbourhood cooks together

Tiny, tightly edited specialty bar by Principe Real

Wood-fired pizza and sushi on the CCB roof terrace

Pioneering Lisbon roaster on a 5kg Probatone

Plant-forward brunch and specialty coffee in Anjos

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

Stone-milled Portuguese-grain bread from Alcantara

In-house-roasted specialty coffee and magazines in Bica

Eight-seat kaiseki counter from Paulo Morais

The world's oldest operating bookshop, on Rua Garrett since 1773

Riverfront museum of art, architecture and technology

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

Light-filled all-day café for creative brunch in Belém

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

Slow-fermented artisan bakery from Vitor Sobral & Mário Rolando

1943 pastelaria, repeat 'best pastel de nata' winner

Austrian-owned all-day cafe with cake, books and worn sofas

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

Fifteen-room townhouse hotel with a garden-fed kitchen

Henrique Sa Pessoa's tapas-and-petiscos vermouth bar

Vitor Sobral's reinvented corner tavern

Palace-turned-suites hotel atop Bairro Alto

Sourdough, pastry and specialty coffee at 8 Marvila

1933 grand hotel anchoring the avenue's luxury axis

Restored 18th-century palace above the Bica miradouro