Fun and entertainment Lisbon

Without doubt one of the most beautiful esplanades in Lisbon! A cosmopolitan place, a clientele mixing travellers and Lisboetes as well as many tables offering a breathtaking view of the Tagus and the rooftops of Alfama. You can enjoy petiscos (tapas), sandwiches, and salads at any time of the day, you can also simply come and have a drink and laze in the middle of the excitement. The prices are higher than elsewhere, the view has a cost, the service is, unfortunately, rather uneven, but it doesn't matter. To be tested at the end of the day over a beer.

You will certainly hear about Café Luso if you are looking for a fado restaurant. Inaugurated in 1927, on the site of an old palace, it is one of the oldest restaurants on the theme of Lisboa. His reputation makes him a mecca of fado: what could be more normal, it is here that Amália began her career. The space is impressive with its arcades and stone walls. In its large vaulted hall, a fado show is given throughout the evening, during which exclusive artists of the house sing in an intimate atmosphere.

Very little signage for this bar with a 500 ^m2 terrace and a 180° view. To get there, you really have to go into the parking lot and take the elevator to the top. When you get to the bar, it's really quite a surprise! Its hard part, its decoration and its vegetation evoke a little the Tropics. Planted shrubs and light woodwork give the space a suspended garden feel. A little Mediterranean cuisine and some snacks (homemade gourmet hamburgers) to satisfy your appetite and cocktails on the esplanade to enjoy.

A little further past the Santa Apolonia station you will find this famous bar/club. With one of the most beautiful views in Lisbon, the establishment created in 1961 reopened in 2010 as a bar-restaurant with live music. Two independent spaces: a large terrace with an open-air bar and a concert and theater room. The stage allows to put forward new local artists of different universes: music, painting, art... More than an event space, it is also a very nice place of conviviality. See you there!

This former "brothel", once frequented by local prostitutes and visiting foreign sailors, retains something of its sultry cabaret atmosphere. On the program: cultural events, improbable DJ nights in its dance hall, or just chatting. Chapel-Sixtine-style ceilings, pedestal tables and antique armchairs give the "Pension Amour " plenty of charm and sensuality. You can then go and sleep just upstairs in their Madam's Lodge hotel, and stay in an oriental ambiance.

An establishment under the São Luís theatre and above the São Carlos theatre, which has a pretty vaulted room full of charm and a small terrace. You can take the time to daydream in good company or even to read thanks to a pile of international magazines at your disposal. A slate at the entrance offers a dish of the day that will always be cheaper than an à la carte dish. At certain times of the year, free quality concerts (jazz cycle: Monday and Friday) entertain a cosmopolitan and well-educated clientele.

In a beautiful old building near Sé, the guitarist, composer and fado performer Mario Pacheco (former companion of the diva Amália Rodrigues) has created a rather chic restaurant-bar. We're a long way from the most casual haunts in Alfama. The superb vaults now house one of the best places for bourgeois fado, the headquarters of famous fadists of all ages. Beautiful room of style well arranged. We let ourselves be transported to the sound of the guitar in another era. For a meal-show or to have a drink and listen to Fado.

This is a well-known and rather luxurious establishment for the neighbourhood. In a large medieval vaulted room (former palace of the Counts of Linhares) lit by candlelight, every evening from 9:15 pm, three high-flying fadists follow one another, among a mainly foreign clientele. Exceptional singers have been there, such as Ana Moura, Celeste Rodrigues (Amália Rodrigues' sister) or the young Vânia Duarte. In the kitchen, Portuguese or international dishes are prepared: a choice of meats and fish cooked with refinement.

The world-famous brand has been present in Lisbon since June 2003. Large screens, mezzanine, American car, large faceted ball and the brand's usual decoration, all in the former Cinema Condes with its unmistakable facade. From Thursday to Monday, concerts by rock groups liven up the evenings. The clientele is very varied and half of them are foreigners: the young dynamic Lisbon executive meets the British football fan and the small tourist family. After 10pm it is one of the very few lively spaces in the district.

This cultural collective operating by subscription card offers its fellow members various and varied evenings: concerts (world music, fado, acoustic session, jazz…), DJ, cinema, exhibitions, workshops and experimentation…

In addition to the orchestra and resident choirs under the guidance of great masters (Corboz, Radu Lupu, Jordi Savall...), the foundation regularly welcomes excellent ensembles and the greatest foreign soloists or conductors. Amateurs will be amazed at the program. Baroque, romantic, contemporary music, nothing escapes the foundation, which also organizes ballets. In summer, in its outdoor auditorium, it gives way to jazz and world music.

You will surely first notice its beautiful 1930s style facade, in sharp contrast to the palm trees and old buildings in the surrounding area. You'd think it was abandoned, but no! Quite interesting shows, which do not feel obliged to be boring to be intelligent: musicals, café-theatre and even programming for young audiences.... Not to mention the lounge bar on the first floor offering concerts and dancing evenings....

Here, the coffee is roasted on site. Since its creation in 2015, the Fabrica Coffee Roasters has not destuffed with its small terrace where you can have breakfast with a coffee and a croissant (a real good one as in France). For us, it is the best elongated coffee in the city (called here americano or abatanado). If you are a fan of good coffees and cappuccinos, we highly recommend this address. Be careful, here no wifi, deliberate bias of the owners who do not want to see their establishment filled with computers.

Carrying the pseudonym of a protest composer of the last century, native of Cape Verde, the B.Leza, friendly and smiling, fills us with lusophone rhythms, live or recorded, and a maximum of Africanities. Come and enjoy the orchestras on stage distilling mornas, coladeira, funaná, kuduro, kizomba... But also some Latin-American evenings and even a poetry night (on Sunday) and a monthly fado appointment. The heat increases proportionally to the crowd on the dance floor dancing to Brazilian, Angolan or Mozambican sounds...