Cantinho Lusitano

Fundamental telefonar a reservar e aberto a partir das 19h!
Petiscos de excelente qualidade e o serviço a condizer.

Small place, big flavour (I feel like that makes for a captivating tag-​line).
AND A TRUTHFUL, DELICIOUS ONE AT THAT.
There are only 18 seats here, so I strongly recommend a reservation to avoid disappointment. A quick call or email (very responsive on this front) and you’ll secure a spot.
The concept here is small plates, with 2-​ish per head hitting the spot for our party. On offer are some more traditional offerings (salt cod dish with potatoes, chickpea salad, farinheiro* sausage, garlic shrimp) and also some more outside-​the-​box options like a delicious pork stew, and a soft Portuguese cheese served with crackers.
I have been eating my way through garlic shrimp (if it’s offered on a menu, I’ll go for it!) and Cantinho Lusitano’s version was one of the best I’ve had in Portugal. The shrimp were cooked perfectly, not overdone, and the bread served at the restaurant was the perfect size and consistency for sopping up the excess garlicky oil. Double nod of appreciation for the octopus which was similarly prepared and extremely tender.
Good, if small, selection of wines.
The service was charming (shout out to Silvia) and the husband-​wife team running this spot clearly has a good thing going. Highly recommended as a «hidden gem» away from the hurly burly of the central intersections of Lisbon.
*totally butchered — pun! — that spelling
Unilocal note: REGRET NOT GETTING LEMON TART FOR DESSERT.

Pica Pau, garlic shrimps, meatballs… You name it. Food here is outstanding, and service by Silvia is friendly and cosy. It’s a small place so care to book in advance. Cellarwise, small but interesting selection of Portuguese wines. My advice: Lagoalva, Tejo region. As to the crowd, many non locals have found it, like me. But hey, are we non-​locals not entitle to good food and service?

Super accueil chaleureux et personnalisé. Restaurant familiale: madame en salle, monsieur en cuisine. Très bons petits plats. En en prenant plusieurs, on peut en goûter plus et partager. Petits plats typiques portugais. Bön conseil sur le vin. Pensez à réserver. A refaire!

Simple, high quality, classical portuguese fare in a cosy and extremely friendly setting. The restaurant has only 18 seats and is located a little off the beaten tracks (it is best to go there by tram or by bus from Cais Do Sodre). Worth the detour, highly recommended!

Un mot: FANTASTIQUE !
Il n’y a que des tapas, pas de plat!
Et leur idée, C’est le partage donc c’est top!
Dans ce restaurant: les serveurs parlent français et nous conseille et vraiment bien!
Elle nous dit 5tapas pour deux, et c’était largement suffisant!
Je vous laisse faire votre choix, car tout était bin, tout etait frais, des recettes particulièrement bonne, allez si, faites vous plaisir ! Surtout vu les prix entre 4 et 6, c’est rien !
Du coup par gourmandise, lachez vous aussi sur les desserts, ils sont a tomber par terre !
Et le top, c’est qu’on vous fait livrer un taxi pour vous ramener vous et votre ventre pleins !
Allez les gars: REGULEZ VOUS

Notre deuxième passage confirme le précédent avis. Les croquettes de morue sont très fines et goûteuses. L’émincé de bœuf et ses frites de patates douces un enchantement. Goûtez les farineras et leur compote de poivrons: unique.

Easily one of the best meals I’ve had in Europe. Its not the easiest place to find, but definitely worth the effort. I let the server make the selections, and every single dish was outstanding. Perhaps the best thing is to try a little bit of everything. Prices are a bargain for the quality, but highly recommend booking a table in advance.
When I think back on my dining experience, I can’t help but appreciate the way each dish was so unique and delicious. Sadly, I don’t have any photos from this eatery, but it was a great way to spend an evening in lovely Lisbon.

The place is hard to find if you are not familiar with the area and away from the busy streets of lisbon. Ive been to portugal many times and have eaten alot of places, yet this place is my favorite by far. The place is very small and only seats a few at a time. The waitress was super friendly and knowledgeable.
We tried a Douro wine based on her recommendation and it was excellent. We ordered several dishes and all were delicious but we loved the scrambled eggs. My boyfriend didn’t think we should get it.. its scrambled eggs how great can it be but he loved it and do did I. We still rave about the dish to our friends.
I would highly recommend stopping for a bite if your in Lisbon.

We’ve been in Portugal for three weeks and have eaten at highly touted places, working class joints and big, fancy restaurants but the best meal we have eaten in the country was here. The food is excellent, interesting and thoughtfully prepared. The place is tiny — only 18 seats — so a reservation is in order. We stopped by two days before to book.
There are only two folks running the place, a server who is pleasant, knowledgeable and fluent in at least three languages and a chef who we did not see. The server explained that sometimes her sister comes by to help with dishwashing. Even so, the meal was well paced and prompt although it was moderately stressful to see how hard they are working.
We had the fava beans with cumin, the chickpea, olive and tomato salad, the greek meatballs with yougurt sauce and the pica-​pau beef. Each was presented in a nice sized portion so we did mot overeat and the server knowingly asked if we wanted more bread to soak up the various sauces which were left after we had cleaned our plates.
We finished with two espressos and a yummy lemon tart are were stunned to find that everything noted (plus two fizzy waters and a glass of red wine) were well under forty Euros.
This place is a little hard to find but worth every misplaced step.

This little Tapas restaurant is fantastic. There are very few tables, so we were turned away when we arrived spontaneously as the place was fully booked. However, we wouldn’t be deterred and were able to reserve a table for the following night. And was it ever worth coming back!
We shared a starter and four tapas from the mouth-​watering selection, and every single one of the dishes was delicious in its own way — there were olives with garlic oil and fresh bread, some heavenly, slightly heated runny cheese, a fava bean salad that was perfect in its simplicity, very tasty stuffed mushrooms and beef in an indescribably yummy gravy. We had a glass of lovely red wine that went perfectly with every dish and a raspberry sorbet to round it all out.
Actually, we couldn’t resist the liquor menu either, and thus discovered a local sour cherry liqueur called ginjinha that was so good that we had to take a bottle home.
Our waitress was extremely helpful in explaining the dishes and drinks to us and gave us lots of information and advice surrounding our meal. Even though she had to take care of the whole room by herself, she was quick and seemed to genuinely enjoy talking to us and answering all our questions.
Highly recommended, but be sure to book a table in advance!

Este cantinho é deveras interessante. Os petiscos são muito bons e, de cada mainf que vou aqui para estes lados, não consigo evitar vir para aqui petiscar. Nunca venho em grupos grandes pelo espaço algo acanhado, mas com 2 a 3 pessoas é muito agradável. A qualidade do serviço prestado é bastante boa, assim como as iguarias que servem. A farinheira de porco preto é simplesmente deliciosa e o queijinho amanteigado faz cair a baba até aos vegans… E o vinho? Seleccionado por quem conheçe, aconselho quem aqui vem a confiar nas sugestões que nos dão para cada tipo de tapa que escolhemos.

Este é um sítio onde os petiscos fazem as honras da casa. Sempre que venho, acabo por não conseguir jantar, os queijos, enchidos e pão tomam conta da refeição e não dão espaço para mais. Tudo isto pede vinho tinto e o João aconselha bastante bem na relação preço-​qualidade. Uma vez passou à minha frente um frango de cerveja que cheirava às mil maravilhas, mas já era a gula a falar, porque o estômago torceu o nariz e disse: tem juízo senhora dona Joana. Para quem gosta, um amigo meu recomenda a salada de favas, que eu confesso ainda não ter tido coragem de provar. É um bom espaço para se ir a dois e conversar calmamente, se forem muitos o melhor é escolherem um sítio mais espaçoso.

Tenho a dizer que a minha mãe é louca por petiscos, não sei se pela paixão pelo flamenco se a simples vontade de comer de tudo um pouco e foi numa procura de um sítio para a levar no dia de anos que descobri este cantinho. A selecção de petiscos muda com alguma frequência e acho óptimo que se possa beber vinho ao copo da garrafeira fantástica que está disponível. A decoração é simples mas cuidada e o espaço muito pequeno, não devendo ter espaço para mais do que 20 pessoas, pelo que a única coisa que posso recomendar é que se faça reserva, já que de resto duvido que alguém se arrependa.