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    La Vita é Bella

    3.9 (35 reviews)

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    Classy
    Outdoor seating
    Good for kids

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    Rissoto and carpaccio, sofa king delicious !

    This place is so good that wife and I came here 2 days in a row. First night was just desserts (tiramisù and mousse), but we were coveting the real food. 2nd night is now, but so far we've loved the pizza and salad, and rissoto and more is on the way, no need to cross our fingers as we know it will be fantastic. Staff is very attentive and accommodating, we are sitting outside in May and they have offered blankets if the heater next to us is not enough. Shout out to the bartenders suggestion cocktail, which brings him to your table to ask about your tastes and likes, my wife ended up with some of passion fruit cocktail which she relished and wants to recreate at home.

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    Ebonee R.

    This place was small but cute! The service was decent for being pretty busy. Did make reservations! The pasta being scooped in the cheese wheel was pretty cool but the pasta was cold :( would've been better if it was actually warm. Other than that enjoyed our meal!

    Linguine with Clams
    Jeff F.

    The food was exceptional. Linguine with Clams and the Caesar salad were very tasty. Unfortunately we came one hour before close, and you could tell the staff was already ready to go home. When we arrived at 11, the host had to check with the kitchen if they were still serving. We got a table and ordered our drinks, which was the last opportunity you get a drink. We ordered food (the best part of our meal). The server never checked back to see how the food was. Never came back to see if we needed drinks. She was more interested in cleaning up all of the tables so she can get out on time, instead of providing good service. At the end of the meal, 20 min before close, we asked her while she was taking our plates if we could order another drink and some desserts, and she had to check again with the kitchen. When she came back, she brought the drinks for my son and daughter, never asking if we wanted something, and said the kitchen can't make any desserts. There were four other tables on the patio still eating their main courses, but no one I guess was able to continue our meal. If you come, come for the food but not the service. Dropped €135 for four people and would have spent more.

    Caprese salad
    Collette K.

    Linguini was delicious!!! Servers were very friendly and nice. This place has inside and outside seating. Great for groups of 5-10 people. Food was delicious!

    Penne with vegetables
    Eunice Y.

    Got pulled into this restaurant while walking in the area but came in because we were craving non-Portuguese Italian food. Was a decent meal but nothing toooo special or delicious. The two of us ordered a basic pizza and basic pasta to fill us up and left with some leftovers. TIP: Water here is 3 euros per bottle so instead, go to the store right across from the restaurant and get bottles for 80 cents or an extra large container of water for only 1.5 euros!!

    Menus
    Heidi A.

    The food is spectacular and service impeccable here. We stopped here after a long day walking around. It's in a tourist area but no one is outside trying to sell you on their food unlike the other restaurants in that area. It's classy. The house red is cheap! Squeal! $13€ for the bottle and sooo delicious! We had pear salad, ravioli, wine and olive oil with balsamic vinegar, tiramisu and mille foglie. We left stuffed. While dining we realized this restaurant is owned by the restaurant group Fullest. We had stopped at another of their properties the previous evening (em Alta na baixa). We will stop at their other cousin restaurant before we leave (tapas and friends). What a great find these restaurants are!

    Burrata Salad
    Matt P.

    This was a great find right in the touristy area of Lisbon where most of the cruise ship guests frequent. It's actually one of the few establishments where there are people harassing you to come and try their restaurant. If you don't know what I mean, you will if you ever walk through this area. They have seats located indoors and there are some seats available outside. We opted to sit outside and enjoy the cool night air. I found the inside was a little too warm for me. We ordered the burrata salad, carbonara with Guanciale and Veal scallopini. First off, I found the food cost here was pretty affordable considering we just came from Barcelona. Food is definitely cheaper in Portugal. Everything we ordered tasted great here and the chef is from Rome. So you are getting authentic Italian food in Portugal. Just be warned that if you decide to order the carbonara, the noodles are cooked al dente and is a little bigger than your normal spaghetti noodles. The guanciale is pork belly that's been cured. Please do not think of it as fat. Guanciale is pretty expensive and this tasted great with the noodles. It's a lot better than pancetta or bacon bits like how it's prepared stateside.

    Great ambiance.
    Mick T.

    We enjoyed our meal very much. The staff was friendly and attentive. We had the Linguine alle forma and the Veal scaloppine with Prosecco and lemon sauce. We sat inside to avoid the beggars.

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    We really enjoyed ourselves here. We had a good interaction with the staff. And the food tasted good. Several options that were favorable.

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    Great atmosphere and the gentleman working went out of his way to make us comfortable and have an enjoyable experience.

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    We are from Austin Texas! This is a relaxing fun place! The food and drinks are amazing! Please stop by for great food and service!

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    We weren't able to sit inside, but the outside seating was well heated and comfortable.

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    Da Vinci

    4.2(47 reviews)
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    Solid Italian restaurant in a touristy part of town. We were hungry and saw Da Vinci. Before we…read morewalked in I had to check Yelp and the reviews were solid so we decided to give it a try. Plus, my 6-year old just got off our tour bus and needed a bathroom break All of our orders came out in good time and our server was very helpful and friendly. We chatted a bit about his family in California. We ordered two steaks with wine reduction sauce. Very good. One steak was over cooked but it was fine. Clams as appetizer was awesome with the house bread. One order of lasagna and I would give it a 8/10 compared to other restaurants at home. One order of pasta carbonara. It was good but not outstanding. One order of spaghetti bolognese. That one was average. We just arrived from Barcelona a few days before Lisbon and we were missing sangria so we ordered one pitcher. It's not as good as the ones in Barcelona but then again this is not Barcelona. For dessert we ordered 3 ice cream and a tiramisu. The ice cream was over-priced at 8 Euro each. Skip dessert and go get some great pastries or gelato outside around the plaza.i

    Well I was very excited to try this after seeing the photographs and reviews. I would give it…read morebetween 3 & 4 stars. Our meals were ok. I had the lasagna and it looked fantastic, it didn't taste quite as good. It kind of acidic, slightly but lacked a lot of flavour sadly. I put lots of cheese on it but is only partially fixed it. We also had a salami pizza and spaghetti boulegnese. Both were ok. Spaghetti was tasty but maybe a little fatty tasting and the pizza was thin crust but not crispy or firm at all. Just alright. We also had the fruit crepes for dessert, they were just ok, not worth having. The ones I had at Josephine up town were miles better. These were the doughy kind of texture which I don't like. Sorry it didn't blow me away as I was hoping so. But I also didn't realise it is smack in the middle of the tourist area, we had spent most of our trip uptown near Alfama and it is way more authentic and real... And way cheaper. I think fish was €50 here, and for a tiny fish. If you go uptown you cms get that for €15 max, and way bigger...

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    Cantina Baldracca - disappointing, overcooked squid

    Cantina Baldracca

    4.2(36 reviews)
    0.3 kmMadalena, Mouraria - Castelo - Alfama
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    One of the most memorable dining experiences of all time. We spent 4 nights in Lisbon and came…read morehere twice, that's how great it was. I typically would avoid going to the same restaurant twice during a short stay in a city with so many good eats, if I can help it. In fact, I had already planned out all of my meals and made the proper reservations. But after having dinner the first night here, I had to cancel the reservation for our last night in Lisbon and snatch a reservation at Baldracca again. Between the two nights, we sampled almost all the items we wanted to try on the blackboard. That's part of the reason for the 2nd reservation. There were so many creative and delicious dishes that we just couldn't try with one meal between two people, so we had to come back the 2nd time. But the food is only one part (an important part) of the whole experience. We love the energy, the vibe, and the people in this little restaurant. Our first night there, we had the earliest reservation (i.e. when the restaurant open for the night). The servers got all of us in and seated, then literally had the "Listen up, this is how it goes..." to let everyone know what the restaurant is about, how many dishes to order based on how many in the party etc etc... They are very causal and basically said to enjoy and flag any of them down when ready to order or need of anything. Then they turn up the music and I felt like I am in a family or friend party event. Music blasting, dishes served, people chit chatting, laughing, just having a great time. We went back the 2nd time, the owner actually recognized us and welcomed us warmly. Because we snatched a later reservation that 2nd night, he even sat down at the end of the meal to talk to us a bit. Upon learning that we are visiting Porto next, he took some time to write down restaurant recommendations on a piece of paper and handed to us and offered us to try some of the sweet wine they made (which was absolutely delicious). We took a picture with him and honestly can't thank him enough. Truly a very special place because of the food, the atmosphere, and the people!

    And thus, in no particular order, while trying to work my way through the large number of places I…read morewent, and wrote review drafts for, on our trip to Portugal a couple months ago... I get to by far the worst restaurant I've been to in a while, at least in a case where I was certainly expecting the opposite, and one of the worst reviews I've written in a long time. I have no idea what entirely different-sounding restaurant most of these people went to... it started out badly, when we got there, the first ones after they opened, for our reservation, the music was quite loud, so after being seated, we asked our server if she could turn it down, and she gave her an irritated look and stomped off. We think she turned it down a tiny bit for a couple minutes, then turned it back up even louder. My wife literally said (I was facing the other direction) that she saw that waitress trying to talk to another waiter and having a hard time due to the music volume. Wasn't quite the right vibe for 12:30 for lunch, was a bit more of a late evening bar vibe, music-wise? But also yeah, our waitress had a bit of an attitude. We talked about just walking out and going somewhere else, which I wish I had, but I'd seen so many great reviews, and we had a reservation, so we ordered a couple things, which did arrive pretty quickly there after. We tried, at the time (though I get the impression the menu probably also rotates pretty often) Potato cabbage chorizo balls - super bland, they just tasted like shaped balls of mashed potato. Didn't taste any chorizo or even cabbage, really. Boring. Squid - the worst squid I'd had in a while. The sauce was tasty enough but nothing amazing; the squid itself was way over-cooked, also, over-*grilled* specifically, it tasted charred. I still ate it, but it definitely wasn't worth 16 euros. A "pickled rabbit/quince/chorizo", because I was just so curious what it was. This one was actually super fun, unique and interesting, saving the restaurant as a whole from only getting one star. I was surprised after the other two. I've definitely never had anything like it before, and likely never will. There were a whole bunch of flavors, all great. But their menu is a chalk-board, so I have no idea if it's still being served, or if it disappeared from the menu a week after I was there in January. Their wine is also very much... American priced. If it were in Long Beach, 9 euro (or its American equivalent) for a glass of the house wine would seem very reasonable, and if it were in Los Angeles, it'd be downright cheap - in Portugal, though, I'd gotten used to much cheaper glasses of wine, so that was a bit surprising. I did like that they had a by-the-glass orange wine, though, so obviously I had a glass of the house orange wine. It was pretty decent. I'd have been happy for a red or white wine for half the price, though, as seemed common for similar restaurants nearby. That wouldn't have mattered so much if the food had been, overall, better, though, and the service hadn't been... a little snotty.

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    Cantina Baldracca - Fun & cozy atmosphere

    Fun & cozy atmosphere

    Cantina Baldracca - Grilled octopus was delicious

    Grilled octopus was delicious

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