Wanderlust Portugal

This restaurant lies in the Baixa district of Lisbon, on the Rua dos Douradores, in a corner of a building and in connection to a 4 star hotel called Hotel Lis. It is newly renovated and decorated with wine boxes, tiles and bottles on the shelves. Excellent wine glasses, fine dinner plates and enough quiet for you to be able to talk to whomever you go there with. Perfect restaurant for bringing your spouse or a friend with you for a tête à tête. The prices are affordable and you get good quality food and wine for your money. We asked what they have to offer and ordered something that was not on the menu (do try this at all the restaurants you go to, sometimes you might miss a daily special if you just look at the menu). The main dish we ordered was linguini with scampi in a tomato/vegetable stock and wine sauce. To accompany that dish we ordered a bottle of white  vinho verde  which is a dry and crisp Portuguese wine from the Northwestern parts of the country with some ...

This is one of my favourite villages in Portugal. It was basically love at first sight, you see the hill and the castle up ahead as you draw closer, the white painted houses clustered within the walls and the view, oh the view is to die for! To the east you have the Alqueva dam, the water is deep blue in the giant artificial lake during the day, golden orange during a spectacular sunset. Dotted around the lake are olive trees and cork trees. To the west you've got a typical Alentejo plateau with villages, trees, animals and fields. It is like something idyllic from the Disney movie Ferdinand. The village has an outer wall connected to a castle and with the village inside the walls on top of a summit. Created for defensive purposes, it is now a really charming place full of medieval remains and the original outline of the streets still maintained. Very few people live here, some tourists have fallen in love in the place and bought some of the houses or apartments. Some ar...