Where to eat at and around Hotel das Amoreiras
You are on a quiet garden square just north-west of Largo do Rato, in a residential part of the city, and the hotel has no restaurant: breakfast, a short bar menu and afternoon tea are its only tables. The luck of the address is Páteo Bagatela, two minutes away, with a two-star restaurant and an Italian deli open for Sunday lunch; within nine minutes on foot are a serious pizza oven, a cocktail garden and a starred Japanese. You need no car; dinner down in Chiado means the 758 bus or a taxi back up.
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Within ten minutes on foot
- 2 min walk
Two-star modern Portuguese tasting menus · €€€€
The chef who took Alma in Chiado to two Michelin stars opened this restaurant under his own name in February 2026, two minutes from the hotel door, and it holds two stars in the 2026 guide. There are three tasting menus, one at 160 euros and two at 245, and a short à la carte with main courses at 55 and 60. Its reservations page books dinner Tuesday to Saturday and lunch Thursday to Saturday; it is shut on Sunday and Monday.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outPáteo Bagatela, Travessa da Légua da Póvoa 11
- 2 min walk
Fresh pasta and Italian grocery · €€
Opened in 2016 by Tanka Sapkota, the chef behind Forno d'Oro, in the pedestrian courtyard of Páteo Bagatela: a restaurant with an Italian grocery inside it, organic fresh pasta made in the house, cured meats and cheeses from the shop, and wine priced to take home. Spaghetti carbonara on its organic fresh pasta is 16.95 euros and tagliatelle al ragù 18.95. Its own hours run lunch and dinner Tuesday to Saturday and lunch on Sunday until 15:30, which makes it the answer to Sunday; closed Monday.
Reserve aheadPáteo Bagatela, Rua Artilharia 1, 51
- 4 min walk
Pizzeria with 36-hour fermented dough · €€
Opened in 2014 by Tanka Sapkota and built around one idea: pizza dough fermented for 36 hours, San Marzano tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella, baked in a wood-fired oven, with a long list of craft beers alongside. A buffalo-mozzarella Margherita is 13.50 euros on its own menu. It serves lunch Tuesday to Saturday and dinner Monday to Saturday, closed Monday lunch and Sunday, so on a Monday night it is the one table on this page that is open.
Reserve aheadRua Artilharia 1, 16B
- 5 min walk
Brunch, specialty coffee and matcha · €
A bistro with a terrace on Largo do Rato, doing breakfast and brunch, specialty coffee, coffee cocktails and a range of matcha. Its own site gives 9:00 to 17:00 every day, so it is the fallback when the hotel's breakfast has finished at noon, or a second coffee on the way to the metro at Rato.
Walk inLargo do Rato 4A
- 6 min walk
Botanical cocktail bar with tapas
A cocktail bar hidden in a garden, opened by two bartenders whose careers ran through Florería Atlántico and Paradiso: cocktails built on flowers, herbs and tropical fruit, each also made without alcohol, Caribbean-inspired tapas split into Fauna and Flora, and a sunny terrace for the hour before dinner. Its own site gives Tuesday to Saturday, 16:00 to midnight, closed Sunday and Monday. The better aperitivo when the hotel's bar is full.
Walk inRua Alexandre Herculano 61
- 9 min walk
Michelin-starred Japanese with Portuguese produce · €€€
One Michelin star for Japanese cooking built on Portuguese produce, which is the point of it: usuzukuri dressed à Bulhão Pato, scarlet prawn usuzukuri, chutoro nigiri with Dijon and a pastel de nata mochi. The main room serves dinner Tuesday to Saturday, with lunch Tuesday to Friday, and its bar, Kikubari, opens at 12:30 Tuesday to Friday and at 19:00 on Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday. Nine minutes on foot, it is the farthest walk on this page.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outRua Castilho 77B
Breakfast
Check whether your rate includes breakfast. It is cooked to order from a short à la carte menu and served from 8:00 until noon, in the breakfast room downstairs or out in the courtyard: sourdough and Mafra bread, croissants, banana bread from Madeira, eggs Benedict or Florentine, Azores cheese and fresh orange juice, with gluten-free and lactose-free options on request. There is no buffet. The nearest alternative on this page is Alba Bistro on Largo do Rato, five minutes on foot, open from 9:00 every day.
What to skip
The trap here is the calendar, not a kitchen. Every dinner table on this page is shut on Sunday evening and all but one on Monday, and on Sundays the last tram up from Chiado leaves Praça Luís de Camões at 18:05. Arrive on a Sunday night without a booking and dinner means Chiado, with the late bus or a taxi back; book Sunday lunch nearby instead, and save the pizza for Monday.
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Good questions about Hotel das Amoreiras
Where can I eat near Hotel das Amoreiras?
You are on a quiet garden square just north-west of Largo do Rato, in a residential part of the city, and the hotel has no restaurant: breakfast, a short bar menu and afternoon tea are its only tables. The luck of the address is Páteo Bagatela, two minutes away, with a two-star restaurant and an Italian deli open for Sunday lunch; within nine minutes on foot are a serious pizza oven, a cocktail garden and a starred Japanese. You need no car; dinner down in Chiado means the 758 bus or a taxi back up. Henrique Sá Pessoa, 2 min walk. Il Mercato, 2 min walk. Forno d'Oro, 4 min walk.
Our verdict
A calm, independent base that repays a slower kind of Lisbon trip. Book it when you already know the city and want to sleep well.
Last checked: September 2026