Where to eat at and around Palácio Ludovice

Within ten minutes on foot

• 100 Maneiras

  2 min walk

  Creative tasting menus, Bairro Alto · €€€€

  Round the back of the block, up Rua do Teixeira: tasting menus built, in the restaurant's own words, to rediscover Portugal through its produce, with wine or alcohol-free pairings. It is in the Michelin Guide without a star. Tuesday to Thursday 19:00 to 01:00, Friday and Saturday also lunch 12:30 to 14:00; closed Sunday and Monday.

  Book well ahead: tables go weeks outRua do Teixeira 39

• Cervejaria Trindade

  4 min walk

  Beer hall in a convent, 1836 · €€

  A beer hall since 1836 in the refectory and cloister of a convent founded in 1294, lined with painted tile panels of 1863 showing the Elements and the Seasons, Winter missing. Order the Steak Trindade or the codfish fillet, the house's own stars. Open every day from noon to midnight, and to 01:00 on Fridays, Saturdays and holiday eves.

  Reserve aheadRua Nova da Trindade 20C

• O Faia

  5 min walk

  Fado house with dinner, since 1947 · €€€€

  A fado house since 1947, five minutes into Bairro Alto. Dinner starts at 19:00 and the singing runs 20:45 to 22:30, on a set menu of 83 euros a head, plus 37 for three paired glasses. The cheaper way in is the late set: a 20 euro show supplement a head, drinks and petiscos, fado from 23:30. Closed on Sundays; tables are allocated in booking order.

  Reserve aheadRua da Barroca 54-56

• A Cevicheria

  6 min walk

  Peruvian ceviche bar, walk-in only · €€€

  Ceviche and pisco sour on the Príncipe Real side, under the giant octopus above the counter. Its own site says walk-in only, every day from 12:00 to 23:00, so come at noon or mid-afternoon rather than queue at eight. Ceviches run from 23 to 42 euros, so this is dinner, not a snack.

  Walk inRua Dom Pedro V 129

• Manteigaria

  6 min walk

  Pastel de nata bakery, from 08:00 · €

  The bakery's first shop, in the Art Nouveau building of 1900 that once housed a butter cooperative, by Largo do Camões, where you can watch the next batch of custard tarts being made. Open 08:00 to midnight, it is the breakfast answer if you have not paid for the hotel's, and tram 24E runs from outside the hotel to its door.

  Walk inRua do Loreto 2

• Belcanto

  9 min walk

  Two Michelin stars, Portuguese cooking · €€€€

  Two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide, nine minutes downhill in Chiado, with a tasting menu or a short à la carte framed by snacks and petits fours. The wine list runs past 350 entries, about 80 per cent Portuguese, which is the wine weekend the hotel promises. Lunch 12:30 to 15:00 and dinner 19:00 to 22:00, Tuesday to Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday.

  Book well ahead: tables go weeks outRua Serpa Pinto 10A

• Casa do Alentejo

  9 min walk

  Alentejo cooking in a palace · €€

  Up a stone staircase, a listed seventeenth-century palace opens on to an Arab-style courtyard, and the restaurant fills two tiled rooms, one with early twentieth-century panels, the other with the palace's own seventeenth-century tiles. Alentejo cooking, 12:00 to 15:00 and 19:00 to 23:00; the tavern runs 12:00 to 22:30. Nine minutes down; the way back is the Calçada da Glória.

  Reserve aheadRua das Portas de Santo Antão 58

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