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    Agulha no Palheiro

    4.8 (20 reviews)

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    Carol M.

    A must when you go to Lisbon! The food was spectacular!! Make a reservation if you can. It's a small restaurant, but so worth a visit!

    Amazing wine!
    Lesley O.

    Seriously, this was a superb meal we had in Lisbon the last night we were there and went to this restaurant based on a recommendation of someone we met at Time Out Market. They were absolutely correct because this place was fantastic!! I decided to leave out the meat and seafood this night, so I could share several things with my friend who is a vegetarian. We started with mushrooms with breadcrumbs on top and it had so much flavor, it was actually unbelievable. The white wine sauce and breadcrumbs added to the dish in a perfect way, but I was impressed with how much I enjoyed the mushrooms since they aren't usually my favorite. Next, we shared a trio of dips: hummus, guacamole, and olive tapenade. Each were very flavorful and delicious, but the olives were the shining star. The third thing we shared was a phyllo dough pastry filled with apples and brie and was served with julienned apples with a zesty dressing. Oh. My. God. One of the best cheese dishes I have ever had in my life. The apples inside the phyllo dough was almost like apples in an apple pie and paired so well with the brie. If you order anything, order this dish if they have it on the menu for the night!! Lastly, because there is never enough cheese, we shared a cheese platter made from cow, sheep, and goat milk. I was absolutely so full but we still ate it because...cheese. We ordered a bottle of Vinho Verde and it paired extremely well with what we ate. The ambiance is super cute, the service absolutely superb, and the check was presented in an old school toy calculator/register machine. In English, this restaurant is called, "Needle in a Haystack," and that is exactly how I feel about this restaurant because it is like finding a needle in a haystack of perfection.

    Goat cheese and apple pastry with salad

    The best food I had in Portugal and that's saying a lot cause this trip was one of the worst for meals when you don't like seafood. You won't regret coming here that's a promise. It's good enough that if there was another chance for me to go again I would. The downside is you need a reservation because of how small it is so that's kind of annoying. We showed up without one and were told maybe we could stay if we ate under an hour....then it was well actually 45 mins. Please direct me to any kind of restaurant in Europe that gets the food out and the bill paid in that time frame cause it doesn't happen! So because of all the reviews and the Airbnb recommendation I made a reservation. Anyways the goat cheese with apple pastry was amazing, so good that we ordered it again except it didn't taste as good as the first time. The pica pau was good, the sauce was the best part to soak with bread but I didn't get a picture of it. The meat enchido was ok, had we known it was going to have morcilla we probably wouldn't have ordered it. The middle meat selection has a mixture with flour which texture and taste wise for me I didn't like. But the chorizo and slices were good.

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    2 months ago

    Off the beaten track, hidden gem. The food was out of this world. Fabulous atmosphere and the service impeccable.

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    2 years ago

    A great local experience with fresh food and fantastic service. The setting provided a quaint meal and allows for a really great evening.

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    4 years ago

    Authentic Portuguese dining created and cared for lovingly by a husband and wife team...delicious specialties of the day.

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    Best meal I've had in my life. Have to have their tuna!!! Drinks were fantastic and the small size is great. NEED reservation

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    Beautiful, staff is courteous and attentive. Great wine and fish. Cannot wait to come again

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    The pica pau was good, the sauce was the best part to soak with bread but I didn't get a picture of it.

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    Wine Bar do Castelo - Delicious port

    Wine Bar do Castelo

    4.5(34 reviews)
    0.7 kmCastelo, Mouraria - Castelo - Alfama
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    This place is very close by the Sao Jorge Castelo. At the entrance/exit, just take the first side…read morestreet downhill and you'll see this place on the right. After walking around the castle on a warm day, we actually felt more a beer than wine, but we wanted to try this place so we headed in anyway. The owners, actually from Brazil, are very nice. They gave us a menu, then came back in a short while to see what we wanted. They generously gave us a few to sample and even brought out a few bottles that were not on the list, and one was a new bottle! Price of wine is not cheap, our glasses each cost €10 each, a pretty steep price in Portugal where a full bottle often cost less. However, considering the expertise and service, the welcoming and relaxed atmosphere, this is a lovely place to rest up a bit after visiting the castle.

    Great wine list, small but tasty cheese and meat offerings. They all speak English here, and so do…read moremost of the clients -- this is not the place to get a taste of local culture. If all you want to do is drink Portuguese wine and eat some Portuguese snacks, and you have a large tourist wallet, this is your place. It is pleasant, and you'll see a better variety of wines from the whole country here than in most wine bars. But if you are hoping to rub shoulders with locals, look elsewhere. The waiters are all well versed in Portuguese wines. Service is slow, but that seems to be the norm in Lisbon.

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    Delicious wine!

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    Li28oa - Seafood or shrimp rice - tasty

    Li28oa

    4.7(21 reviews)
    0.5 kmMouraria - Castelo - Alfama, Castelo

    I'm so incredibly impressed. I loved that this place was in the ground floor of our hotel…read more Frederico is the expert on hospitality. He is so kind. He will talk to you for hours and teach you about food and wine and culture and talk about the history of food and how it came to be in Portugal. I loved it. I learned so much. I aspire, as an American, to learn from and look up to other cultures. I feel very honored to have dined in a restaurant managed by him on our trip to Portugal. I'm going to recommend to our travel coordinator to add this restaurant to the Google map recommendations list because more people need to go to this place - they need more tables, more space, because I'm convinced this is such a hidden gem that should be exposed to the masses to enjoy! We visited several wineries and this restaurant had the best wine - bar none! The fish, a fish I hadn't tried before, was deliciously seasoned, falls apart with the fork, the creamy rice was just divine. I normally will never eat little cherry/grape tomatoes - ever - but the perfect bite of fish, creamy rice, and a tomato was... perfection. The menu is deeply curated; flavors - textures - wines that make sense. You can tell Frederico what you normally like and he 100% knows what wines he has that you will love. The tomato, orange, ham, salad, was absolutely balanced and delicious. I'm so grateful that our first trip to Portugal we got to meet Frederico and dine with these wonderful people who love food and wine as much as us. I'll never forget it as long as I live. You will not be disappointed. Promise.

    Found this restaurant while walking the streets of Lisbon, and what an amazing surprise. The…read moreambience was lovely, and the food and service were just as great. It was not crowded at all on a Friday night, and I was able to strike up a conversation with fellow diners and actually hear myself talk. That is rare these days. I was surprised they were offering Happy Hour pricing around 7 PM, so I quickly took advantage of a pitcher of sangria, which was delicious and incredibly fresh. I started with the chorizo, which you cook yourself right at the table. For my main course I ordered the steak with eggs, and it was excellent. To finish, I had the crème brûlée for dessert, and it was also outstanding. Overall, a truly wonderful hidden gem in Lisbon. I cannot wait to return.

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    Li28oa - The most delicious bottle of wine we have had in Portugal.

    The most delicious bottle of wine we have had in Portugal.

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    O Cantinho Da Rute - Rice soup??

    O Cantinho Da Rute

    4.1(14 reviews)
    0.4 kmAlfama, Mouraria - Castelo - Alfama

    It was our last day and we got careless. We were hungry and searching for a couple places that…read moreending up being closed. And every place we've been to so far had been very good. So we finally settled on this place with loud music. That should've been the first sign. The loud music was the biggest draw they had. That and a couple friendly waiters. We ordered a couple salads, apps, and a couple seafood rice dishes. The tomatoes in the tomato salad were a bit hard and a tiny bit green. But, no big deal. The octopus salad was fine too. Hard to mess up a salad. Throw some cooked or maybe canned octopus into a salad and toss around. The rice dishes looked nothing like the pictures. Definitely not worth the nearly $20 Euros. Could've gotten shrimp fried rice at a Chinese take out for a few dollars that would've been better. We had hung into a menu in case we wanted to try other items. But, after seeing the rice dishes, we decided not to order any more. (We later went to another restaurant for take out). The waiters were very nice. But then when we tried to pay, they told us "cash only." It was our last night in Lisbon. My wife and I only had $20 left in small bills and coins. And our friends had gotten pick pocketed the day before. $1500 lost. True to the warning that pick pockets are a huge problem in Lisbon. (When they went to report it at the police station, another couple behind them were reporting the same thing. Keep all your valuables in your FRONT pockets. Or in a bag in front of you. Nothing of value should be left in a backpack bon your back. Separate your cash between you and your spouse. Don't carry an expensive looking purse, especially behind you. And don't carry a tiny little purse. That's a sure sign that the ONLY thing you have in your little purse is a wallet. Easy picking. Much harder to pick through a large backpack full of useless things, water bottles, maps, books, etc.) So we were directed to the nearest ATM to get cash, leaving our wives. Unfortunately, the streets are all very twisty. So we didn't find it. I looked up the nearest ATM. 8 min walk. Couldn't find it. The next one is another 8 minutes away. But it's out of cash. We finally found cash at a third. But now we're quite far from the restaurant. 15 minutes. I googled it and it turned out there are multiple with the same name. Crap. We went to one and it wasn't that. We were lost in the labyrinth of Alfama. We finally found our way when our wives texted us a link to another shop in the area. We finally made it back after an hour. And then they told us that they could now take credit. Apparently they had borrowed a card scanner from another store. The manager/owners looked pissed as they discussed allowing me to use credit. Not a great way to run your business. I would've apologized profusely for allowing a foreign customer to walk a whole hour to get cash and having the whole party wait an additional hour at my shop. The waiters were again very nice and apologized. I told them it wasn't their fault multiple times to make sure they understood it. I also told them I wasn't angry at them but at the restaurant, while pointing back at the owners inside the restaurant. Lessons learned: Check to make sure the shop takes credit. take a minute to Yelp or google a place. Don't be pressured by pushy waiters. And don't let loud music distract you from what is probably going to be a lousy place. Also, I make it a rule to not do reviews of less than 4 stars bc it would negatively affect a business. However, this experience definitely deserved to be written up. And a little apology from the manager would've probably prevented this. But, to allow 5 people to experience lousy food, and then surprise them with an hour of waiting to find an ATM was too much.

    This was the 3rd place we went to on our Lisbon Food Tour and definitely hands down my fave! (And…read morethat is not the ginja aka the red cherry liquor I imbibed here talking!) This restaurant is a mom & pop affair, cheerful kitschy sort of place but with hearty delicious local produce on the menu. We got served delicious honey and local cheese as well as quince jam and another jam I cannot now recall the name of (writing this review almost 1.5 months later!). For me, the highlight at this place was the Chourico! This dish was cooked in front of us by the chef in a special terracotta dish with alcohol poured in the bottom saucer, then the sausage placed on a grill on top. Then the alcohol is set alight and once the alcohol has charred the chourico and the flames have died out, what is left is the most delicious, crispy flamed grilled pieces of sausage ever! The host was so funny and engaging, despite his broken English and his wife cooked magic in the kitchen. I totally recommend and plan to return when/ if my travel plans bring me back Lisboa way. Note - Day 3 of Lisbon, Portugal adventures Yelp 201/ 2019

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    O Cantinho Da Rute - Did not look at all like the picture on the menu.

    Did not look at all like the picture on the menu.

    O Cantinho Da Rute - This too was hard to mess up.  Throw some canned or old octopus into a salad.

    This too was hard to mess up. Throw some canned or old octopus into a salad.

    O Cantinho Da Rute - They couldn't mess this up.  But, the tomatoes were a little green for my taste.

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    They couldn't mess this up. But, the tomatoes were a little green for my taste.

    Agulha no Palheiro - portuguese - Updated May 2026

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