Located in Lisbon, Portugal

Description

“Taberna da Baixa, located on one of the busiest streets in Lisbon, offers the best of traditional Portuguese cuisine in an authentically rustic environment. The menu features, for example, a considerable variety of Portuguese snacks and a DOC selection of national cheeses and sausages. To accompany it, you can choose from more than 50 different wine labels, also produced in Portugal. An excellent form of gastronomic tasting where you have the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of textures and flavors that are 100% Portuguese. Enjoy!”

Contact and information

Web: tabernadabaixa.mdig.pt/

R. dos Fanqueiros 161, 1100-042, Lisbon

Tel:+351 218 870 290
tabernadabaixa@gmail.com

Chip’s Notes

We soon found that at Taberna da Baixa our hotel receptionist had not disappointed us. The place was small, the way so many restaurants in Lisbon are. Within, several locals were sipping wine and chomping tapas looking vaguely surly. We ordered a platter of local specials from a young woman hardly larger than a salt shaker. In no time we were looking at bite-size chinks of chicken, squid, beef and a side dish of bean salad, swimming in garlic, basil, onion, with thick cuts of brown bread and black olives. We added a platter of shrimp slopped in a low bowl of garlic and olive oil, parsley, lemon, vinegar, and a thin slice or two of chorizo, all in perfect combination. We washed it all down with cold still water and a deliciously light Vino Verde.

We dined at Taberna shortly after our arrival in Lisbon following the long cruise from Montevideo to Lisbon. Read about the start of that adventure on Day 561.