Always great to stop by and get coffee in one of the many wonderful forms we Portuguese like it…read more The pastries at Paul are always fresh and delicious. Oh and when you buy something you get access to the bathroom. Not a big deal but every once in a while not a bad thing. Go there. They're centrally located in Rua Augusta (the one with the triumphal arch).

This place was one of my favorites to visit and enjoy the Portugal experience. In the morning, I'd…read morewalk over while the city was waking up and enjoy my well prepared latte and delicious pastry. Here is where I'd reflect on the beauty and energy of Lisbon. I was grateful to be here at this time watching people engaging in conversations and living. The service here was always great and the ambiance was wonderful. I'm returning again to relive the experience. The baguette sandwiches were tasty. Prices were reasonable. In

Five stars for how fast the waitress has to work here. This place gets very busy (especially since…read moreit's in a highly touristic area of Sintra), and even more so in rainy hours when everyone is trying to hide indoors. They mostly offer pastries and beverages, but despite one person managing all the tables, our order was accurate and came out quickly. We were able to escape the rain for a bit and fuel up with sugar and coffee. Fun historical note: the bakery was established in 1862 (164 years ago!) by baker Amaro dos Santos and his wife Constância Gomes, and it is now managed by the fifth generation of the family, which makes the quick coffee stop feel even more special.

This place was highly recommended by a friend. Located in the historic Sintra area, you would walk…read moreright past this place unless you knew to stop here, although the line of people waiting might be a sign. When you first get there go inside and pull a number. All of the people waiting outside when we were there had already gotten a number. We had high hopes for the pastries here based on the hype. Ordered a box full of a variety including travesseiro, pastel de nata, coconut tarts and a sintra nata tart. Pastries were good, but very sweet. I still prefer thenpastel de nata from Mantegeiria. The servers are very friendly and patient while you decide on your order.

Memories from my first solo travel experience from 2022 brought me here!…read more Fábrica da Nata foi incrível! 29/07/2022 As tortinhas estavam simplesmente divinas. O atendimento foi excelente e tambem as bebidas estavam deliciosas I fell in love with their egg tarts were simply divine! If I could, I would have taken some more with me while exploring! Service was top notch and the ambiance was relaxing! Ahhh, I haven't found any stateside that measures up to them.

OMG !!! We did a…read morewalking food tour around Lisbon, and this was our last stop. OMG !!! The custard tart was to die for. Delicious. A perfect way to end the food tour. OMG !!!

We stopped in for dinner and we were not disappointed! Our server was quite knowledgeable about the…read moremenu. Of course he upsold us to better, but FRESHER items. The first recommendation was fresh Mussels for our appetizer. It had thr most delicious lemon sauce and was well over two dozen of the crustaceans. For our main course, I had the Portuguese Paella, which was saucer, and has Crab, Mussels and Clams. The other upsell was fresh Grilled Swordfish. No exaggeration, but the Swordfish was the best we had ever tasted! Our server skillfully separated for fillets from the bones skillfully. Rhe Swordfish was buttery and melted in your mouth. The Paella was naturally messy, but top notched, flavorful and a large portion. We are planning to return to try more of the restaurant's offerings.

I ran into this restaurant after a long day of exploring and I am glad!…read more The restaurant is nice, comfortable and close to the plaza. The staff is also nice. I had a cod fish croquette, salmon and a glass of white wine. Everything was delish, made to order, and it sure hit the spot!

The family and I walked up the hill in the Baixa neighborhood to arrive at this comfortable,…read moreslow-paced cafe, which now calls itself Paleio Cafe. My large latte was long on the finish and dark roast flavorful, and my Nutella croissant buttery and only lightly crispy. For me it was the perfect size. But my family ordered what turned out to be surprisingly large salad portions and only made their way through them dutifully. My brother felt the out-of-stock quinoa that the back of house regretfully omitted removed a vital textural and flavor element that would've set off the avocado and absorbed the dressing. My mom criticized the mild vinaigrette on her salmon and walnut salad and felt the lox was too abundant. Still, we three hung out for an hour here, in downtown Lisbon, for €35 after tip, which is pretty excellent value.

My favorite place to go for a coffee, matcha and pastry or lunch…read more Feels like home and the service is friendly and professional.

Stopped by for a dessert and warm espresso with soy milk. Cute place with lots of options…read more Honestly though, the chocolate cake looked better than it tasted. It was good, but would have been great if it was more moist or had whipped cream or nutella inside. I liked the chocolate sprinkles and shavings that gave it lots of crunch. Nice staff, quick service and efficient. Cute place off main tourist road Augusta.

Came here a lot during my visit. Their pastries looks so amazing and the ones we tried were so…read moregood!!

Man, we tried so many different pastel de nata from so many bakeries on our trip to Portugal, I'm…read morestill catching up on all the review drafts I wrote notes into - I'd totally forgotten about this one, from the penultimate day of our trip. One of my sub-goals of that trip was trying basically as many pastel de nata as I possibly could, so seeing a place on our way up to the castle by foot (just after the free elevator), obviously I had to stop and try theirs. By this point I'd tried a whole bunch already, so I can say, out of all of them, the *crust* was really good, possibly among the best I'd had. Perfectly flaky, crispy, flavorful crust, inside of which was totally disappointing filling, a filling that was mostly sugary rather than eggy, and was quite drippy once you start eating it. I can't speak to any of their other pastries, though, we were just here to taste-test all the pastel de nata we could find. :D (If I were back in the area, I'd totally come back to try some of their other, more interesting things.)

This is at the top near the Castle. Nice stopping place to get some ice cream and connect to WIFI…read moreif needed. We got coffee ice cream. The coffee ice cream was very light in coffee flavor but it was very good and refreshing. The cone was crunchy. The employees are very nice and speak perfect English.

So here's the interesting thing - this was one of *many* places to get pastel de nata that made to…read moremultiple lists of places you had to stop, which meant I obviously had to stop at as many of them as possible over the course of the couple weeks I was in Portugal, a couple months ago, in both Porto and Lisbon (also to a lesser extent, Coimbra). This means I can now say who made them best, and more importantly, why. The interesting thing is, I didn't think the pastel de nata here were particularly great, on any dimension - fairly flimsy, doughy crust, with a pudding-like, drippy filling that was too sweet and not quite eggy enough. Don't get me wrong, I'd still eat them any time someone offered, they were still tasty, you just have a ton of options nearby, some of them notably better than the ones here. I also tried one of their fancy-looking cookies, which definitely looked fancier than it tasted. Was just a cookie. Dessert-wise I was unimpressed. They were also always fairly busy, which made ordering feel a bit rushed. So why am I still giving this bakery 5 stars, and why did I come back here a couple more times, including to get food to-go the morning we left, to get food to take on the plane with us? For exactly one reason, and it's a weird one: oddly enough, the samosas here are the best samosas I've ever had, and by a wide margin. You'd think the best samosas ever would come from an Indian restaurant or bakery, but nope, they're here. The other small savory food items we tried were also pretty good, but the samosas are the juiciest, meatiest, most perfectly bursting with spices samosas I've had. Who knew? They also had pretty solid espresso and pretty solid free-squeezed orange juice, but those aren't hard to find in Portugal (I miss seeing inexpensive fresh squeezed OJ all over the city... especially *truly* fresh squeezed, to order, from whole oranges. Portuguese OJ definitely was the best. Though obviously not *better* than other places you can get the same thing around - probably indeed the same oranges. Definitely better than anywhere you can get fresh OJ for a few bucks in the US, though, if you can find such a place. :p)

The first spot we stopped in Lisbon after getting the recommendation from our driver. The pastel de…read morenata was incredible here, and went well with our morning coffee.