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🍜 Food & Drink 📍 Lisbon, Portugal

Petiscos Crawl Through Alfama’s Family Kitchens

4.97 (312) · 4 hours · Max 8 guests

🏠 Locally owned👥 Small groups✓ Verified operator

Led by

Mateus Almeida

Alfama-born chef who traded his restaurant for the neighbourhood

5 years hosting · Speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish · Replies same day

Read Mateus’s story →

Mateus ran a restaurant in Alfama for nine years; now the whole neighbourhood is his dining room. This crawl is six stops, none with an English menu: his aunt’s kitchen, his old dishwasher’s tasca, a grocery that pours green wine between the shelves, a grill where the sardines come off the coals straight onto your plate.

Every stop, someone hugs him. Every stop, you eat what the house is proudest of. Between them you walk the lanes he grew up in, and by the end you understand why he gave up the restaurant.

✨ Highlights

Six food stops, zero English menus
Petiscos, sardines, green wine and ginjinha included
Streets and stairwells only residents use
Fado, if his neighbour is singing that night

✓ What’s included

All food across six stops
Wine, beer or soft drinks at each
A list of his 20 favourite tascas

📍 Meeting point

Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, Alfama, 5:30pm

“A tasca with a queue of tourists is already gone. I take you where the queue is neighbours.” — Mateus Almeida

What guests say

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Dana M. Chicago, USA

★★★★★

Every stop a place we’d never have entered alone, every one where someone hugged Mateus.

B

Beatriz F. São Paulo, Brazil

★★★★

Wonderful food and stories. Pace yourself — the portions are real.