Petiscos, wine and fado
A small modern tasca on a square in Alfama: seafood from the morning market, plates to share, natural wines by the glass and a terrace that catches the last of the sun.
A tasca is a kitchen with its door open to the square.
No tasting menu, no dress code. Plates arrive when they are ready, everyone shares, and the chef comes out to say olá.
From the menu
A taste of what comes out of the kitchen this season. Everything is for sharing: count two or three petiscos each, then a main for the table.
Forty seats, one terrace, and the whole of Alfama going by.
The tasca in numbers
Small on purpose: one room, one terrace, one charcoal grill, and a wine list that changes with what the growers bottle.
What our guests say
From neighbours who come every week to travellers who found us on the way down from the castle.
The best clams of our whole trip.
We stumbled onto the square at sunset, got the last terrace table and stayed three hours. The octopus is outrageous, the orange wine even better, and Inês came out to tell us where to hear more fado afterwards.
Proper petiscos, not tourist food.
Thursday fado night was the highlight of Lisbon. Book ahead, it fills up.
My wife is vegetarian and coeliac: the staff knew every dish by heart and she ate better than I did.
Small, loud in the good way, and the pastel de nata comes out warm.
Natural wines by the glass at fair prices, explained without a lecture.
We booked the long table for my mother’s 70th. Twelve of us, a feast of seafood rice, and fado for dessert.