It is a rustic, gourmet Portuguese restaurant with ambiance off the charts and the nicest waiter we had our whole trip.
They don't sell commercial wine - they only sell their house wine. Here is how they store their house wine. This is our waiter going over to the house wine barrels and pulling some Touriga Nacional & Syrah blend for us. Delicious:
It was like eating in a cave:
The prep table was fun to watch:
Everything gets cooked in the wood fired oven, inside cast iron pots and pans. The wood they use adds a delicious, subtle flavor to the food:
Earlier in the day, we walked though the Alfama in search of a place to go watch live Fado music after dinner. Fado was invented in Lisbon ( Alfama being the epicenter) and Cam has been a big fan of Fado ever since she performed a modern dance piece set to Fado music. There is one part of Alfama where there are a ton of Fado bars. It looks like this:
We found this one and figured we would come here after dinner. It was an excellent choice:
Over a few glasses of port wine, we were brought to tears by the raw emotion and the quality of the music. This young girl, probably about 22, was really belting it out. A very mature, full throated sound that cuts right to the bone. I was a huge fan of the guitarist wearing sunglasses:
There were three sets, each with a different singer. This girls was also very good:
We finished with a male singer. He was excellent:
Cam here trying very hard to hold back the tears. Fado is essentially raw emotion that required no knowledge of Portugese lyrics. We were both floored by the beauty of the whole experience:
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