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Inês Carvalho
📍Lisbon•Food journalist, critic
Food journalist who eats out five nights a week. Obsessed with immigrant kitchens and old-school Portuguese cooking. Distrusts any restaurant with a QR code menu.
Experience & credentials
Background
Food writing and restaurant criticism
Credentials
Published in Portuguese food magazines
Collections (4)
Arroios hangouts
A Lisboeta's guide to Lisbon's most multicultural neighbourhood
Culture
Lisbon
Arroios is where Lisbon eats, drinks and meets without performing for anyone. Wine bars, Nepali dumplings, viewpoint cafés and a cultural mansion: the spots locals quietly defend.
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Pastelarias where locals queue, not tourists
A Lisboeta's guide to the city's best neighbourhood pastelarias
Culinary
Lisbon
Forget the queue at Manteigaria. These are the neighbourhood pastelarias where Lisboetas line up for their morning bica and pastel de nata, far from any guidebook.
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Where to find proper Angolan, Cape Verdean and Mozambican food
A chef's guide to Lisbon's Lusophone African kitchens
Culinary
Lisbon
Lisbon has been eating Angolan, Cape Verdean and Mozambican food longer than most cities have known these cuisines exist. Here are the family-run kitchens and cultural associations that still serve it
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Bifana Spots
Sandwiches Locals Debate by a Food Journalist
Culinary
Lisbon
Leave the tourist trails and join me on a journey to discover Lisbon’s well-kept secrets where bifanas still taste like a local's love. We’ll sidestep the hyped spots and dive into corner nooks that the guidebooks skip. This isn’t about glamour; it’s about real flavors in real places, each offering a different take on the humble bifana. From hidden taverns to understated eateries, expect slice-of-life memories served between buns.
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