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Lisbon Flavors and Bacalhau
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Lisbon Flavors and Bacalhau Lisbon has a wide range of restaurants at every price level, with the emphasis on traditional Portuguese cooking, although fast-food outlets are easy to find as well. Breakfast consists of small cakes and pastries, but hotels can usually prepare meals tailored to foreign tastes. Lunch is more substantial than in other European cities. Heavy soups are popular, salads are surprisingly hard to find, and fresh fruit juice is virtually non-existent. Lisbon inhabitants eat a lot of fish and seafood, including bacalhau (a dried, salted codfish), and the warming winter stews can be good. You may be surprised at the number of pastry and cake shops; the Portuguese are notoriously sweet-toothed, and Lisbon has many old-fashioned shops selling traditional specialties like the delicious pastéis de Belém (pastries filled with custard). Portugal makes good red and white wine, national and foreign beers are everywhere, and all the usual spirits and aperitifs are available. |
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