Where to buy bread cakes chocolates ice cream Lisbon Area

This is pastéis de nata heaven. They are baked and prepared before your eyes, a bell announcing each new batch that comes out of the oven. You can admire them in their window waiting to be eaten. A real treat. Perfect in the morning before attacking your day of visit, for a little snack between two visits in Baixa, or between two bars in the evening. If you don't have time to go to the Belém factory, this is the place to try this Portuguese specialty! Don't be afraid of the queue, it goes very quickly.

Casa Piriquita, a historic house in Sintra, is a pastry shop (and tea room) located in the street that faces the castle. It is well known to gourmets and is always full. It is here that you can buy queijadas from Sintra, the local pastry shop (made with cottage cheese, sugar and cinnamon, not to mention many fresh eggs per kilo) that everyone enjoys. To avoid long queues at the counter, a more modern (and more common) branch is located at the top of the street, called Piriquita 2.

Real Italian ice in Lisbon: this glacier was created and is managed by Italians. Building on its success, Nannarella moved from 68 to 64 on the street to get more space. The list of flavours is not very long, but the essentials are there like vanilla, chocolate or hazelnut (avela). There are also more surprising flavours such as basil. In the summer, you will often see a long line in front of the store. At the old address, a pizza corner has opened where you can buy by weight one of the best pizzas in Lisbon.

Another option for ice cream if it gets too crowded at Artisani. After meals, the whole of Cascais gathers here, in line, to devour the best ice cream cones and pots in the area! The modern white-and-red décor, complete with family photos, presents the biography of Attilio Santini, the Italian-born creator and supplier to the crowned heads. Our favorite flavors are doce de leite and pistachio. There are also waffles and crêpes if you're not tempted by an ice cream.

But what is this about the real queijadas da Sapa? Would other establishments sell fake ones? Unfortunately, despite a careful investigation, we were unable to solve the mystery... To get to the bottom of it, you will have to go to this factory/café to taste the famous queijadas and compare them to the traditional queijadas of Sintra to know which ones deserve the title of true queijadas.

The legendary Cascais ice cream parlour, founded in 1949, with factories in São João do Estoril and Carcavelos (more recent), the regular supplier to the crowned heads, moved to the heart of the city in 2010. Facing the Armazéns in Chiado (shopping center), the setting is like something out of a scene from the movie Clockwork Orange or the TV series The Prisoner. It offers you its tasty seasonal flavors, among them: currant(groselha) or green corn(milho verde) but also more classic flavors for those who are not reckless.

An address just a few steps from the big traffic circle of Marquês de Pombal, where many Lisboners go to work. This huge pastelaria is the meeting place of the dynamic executives of the neighborhood, convinced by the fast and efficient service, as well as by the large choice of sandwiches and typical daily dishes (soups, omelets...). They say that their pastel de nata is awarded several years in a row (and therefore to be tested). There is also a small and pleasant terrace. For the price and the area, nothing to complain about: it's practical and economical

To rediscover the atmosphere of the old chromos: charming arched room, lined with Art Nouveau azulejos and columns. In front of the entrance, a panel announces "The Bread Cathedral". Mass is said! In this house listed in the impressive municipal heritage list, the breads are really excellent, the pastries deliciously sweet and tempting. The old counter has seen generations of regulars pass by and still welcomes many fans in an atmosphere that has nothing religious about it!

With its gray facade and modernized cozy interior, it is for all of Greater Lisbon a reference for pastries (including Bolo Rei and birthday cakes) and has been since 1934! It is sure that there must be a queue on Sundays for family meals... A few steps away from the Palácio hotel, it is the luxury tea room. A pleasure for the eyes and the taste buds for a breakfast, a brunch, a lunch or a snack, at tea time or when coming back from the beach! We also recommend their hot chocolate.

Sacolinha is a chain of tea rooms rather upscale and typically Portuguese. The prices are a little higher than elsewhere but the quality is there. You will find here all the local pastries, from the famous pastel de nata to the bolo de berlin. It will be difficult to make your choice, we warn you in advance. Everything looks so good... It is also the meeting point of the old people of the district who meet for the last gossips: guaranteed atmosphere. A real traditional tea room as we like them.

Behind this store is the work of two brothers - Darchite and Jimite. For three years, they worked on the perfect recipe for vegan doughnut dough and ice cream to create, in 2019, Scoop n Dough. While the team started small, today more than 24 people are working to serve you the best doughnuts in town. You'll find the classics with simple frosting but also ultra original recipes like chocolate pie, crumble or tiramisu, and we're not even talking about their ice cream!

Claudio Corallo's boutique-laboratory, an Italian agronomist and a great experimenter with an ecological sensibility, specializes in 100% natural chocolate and high quality coffee, both from São Tomé and Príncipe, an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean and Portugal's smallest former colony. In her store, you will find good products presented in different forms: roasted beans, various bars, coffee beans covered with chocolate or cocoa sorbet.

Next to Martim Moniz at the beginning of the Mouraria, you enter a small alley that does not really inspire confidence, but at the end a small hidden treasure for the gourmets. Here, everything is homemade, and before your eyes, it is still one of the few pastry shops where you can see the workshop. A pasteleria that is more than 60 years old, a family house where the ladies of the neighborhood come to reassure themselves with a little sweetness... To taste, the specialty of the Mouraria, a pastel with almond cream and feijão. Typical and popular. To test for the curious ones!

We had heard that it was one of the best chocolate cakes in Lisbon. Sofia, the creator of the recipe, developed this cake over the course of the tests, with her entourage as a critical opinion. She keeps the recipe for this little wonder secret. A kind of dark chocolate fondant, with its ganache and mousse, you literally melt! Only one large table in the middle to enjoy this little marvel gently. If you don't have time to stop by LX Factory, they have another address in the centre of Lisbon.

A word of advice to gourmets: this is a Portuguese ice-cream factory, with more than 30 flavours. A stone's throw from the Estrela garden, you can enjoy sorbets and ice creams: Belgian chocolate, passion fruit tart or basil lemon, nata pastel, cinnamon and honey. You will always be informed if the ice contains gluten, eggs or lactose. You can also eat good pancakes and waffles with ice cream, jam or nutella. Perfect for a break in the park.

For several decades, it was a tea and coffee shop. A Carioca, founded in 1936 by Isidoro Teixeira, has given way to a store selling vegan pastéis de nata (i.e. without any animal products). However, the historic store has not disappeared completely, as you can still buy its coffee, or even enjoy it directly with a good pastel de nata. The decoration has also been preserved as it was. At night, you can admire its colorful, vintage neon facade, which gives it a real cachet.