Clube de Fado

Clube de Fado At this fado club, the show is the main dish, and food a supplement. Here, you get high quality fadistas accompanied by the best Portuguese guitar players. There’s a fado fee but no minimum spend. Some say the food doesn’t live up to the fado, but you may just come for appetisers…

A Baiuca

A Baiuca A Baiuca is definitely not a place for a calm dinner. What makes this tiny family-run restaurant special is the fado vadio (literally translated as vagrant, but which means “amateur” in fado’s language). Anyone can get up and sing fado. Invariably, locals are the ones that perform their favourite fado songs, during which…

Parreirinha de Alfama

Parreirinha de Alfama Parreirinha is a nice and cosy restaurant where fado and food have been paired since 1950. The rustic interior has changed little over the years, and the beautiful azulejos on the walls still gleam brightly. The menu includes petiscos as starters and traditional Portuguese dishes, such as bacalhau à “Narcisa” (one of…