Food Fridays - Lisbon (Drinks & Dessert Edition)
Dining out in Lisbon isn't considered complete without drinks and dessert. The servers give a baffled look if you decide to go without either (the very polite ones blink really hard). At a cost of an extra euro or two, which is sometimes cheaper than a bottle of water, it's hard to resist trying a few new desserts and sampling the local beverages. Oh yes, and did we mention that Lisbon has an open liquor policy?
This light sweet dessert is called Baba de camelo which translates into the less exotic "Camel's drool". It's aptly named though as the dessert has a cold, thick, liquid and bubbly drool-like texture.
The Portuguese egg tart: light crispy pastry, sweet egg custard filling, and topped with cinnamon and powdered sugar. Delicious. Almost every bakery has Pasteis de Nata sitting fresh and waiting in their front windows.
This may look like regular old white wine, but it's not. Green wine is a sweet carbonated wine made from very young grapes and is also dirt cheap. The poor man's champagne.
Ginginha is a strong cherry liquor that you can have with or without a chocolate cup, and is apparently good at warding off a cold.
Two traditional desserts, the sugar covered travessero and the custard tart-like queijada.
A funky colored chocolate and apple cream cake, ready to share.
Ah...the war of the beers. There's two main camps in Portugal. You're either a Sagres fan...
...or a Super Bock fan. Jimmy fell into the Super Bock camp.
What better way to start a day than a delicious Italian-quality cappuccino and a Nutella croissant.
We found this little shop where there is only one thing on the menu. One layer soft, moist chocolate cake, one layer light chocolate mousse, and topped with a crazy dusting of chocolate powder. Chocolate lovers...this cake is for you!
We have no idea what this is, but it was really good. We just saw it behind the glass and pointed. Sometimes the best food discoveries are made that way.