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Time out market lisbon gluten free12/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The lines at dinner (and perhaps at lunch too) are very long so that your hot prepared food becomes cold once you’ve lined up elsewhere as well. If you want to try food from multiple locations like we did, you have to secure a table which one of you has to guard, while the other lines up. So if you want to use cash you must line up, purchase a Time Out Market card and fill it with as much money as you want.īut if you don’t spend it all there are no refunds and if you don’t have enough when you order you have to run back and stand in line to refill your card. The main problem with the market is that they don’t accept cash. We made the mistake of coming for dinner where the food from Marlene Viera was recommended. The Market is a collection of unique food venues. They definitely need to address this issue as it isn’t fair for people going to eat to have to hover and wait for so long. It’s nice to have a little walk around in the day/evening and if you can get food there I would recommend it, but the wait for a table was just absolutely ridiculous and we left feeling rather frustrated at having to wait and then rush. You go to the individual vendors to order, they then give you a buzzer which will alert you when your food is ready. You also can’t take your food to go because everything is served on proper ceramic plates, I’d have happily had a takeaway bag if it was offered. My partner couldn’t be bothered to wait for food in the end so we went elsewhere. The food we had was good, I went to Castro’s and had the cod fried balls with tomato rice for €9 which was excellent value! But we left pretty soon after eating because we felt guilty about hogging a table. Sadly, they don’t offer outside seating which is a real shame and many of the people there stayed chatting and drinking after they had eaten so were in no hurry to leave. It’s not a very nice thing to have to do and it felt a little awkward but there was no other way to be seated. We found the trick is to hover/stand by a table and genuinely just wait until someone leaves. It wasn’t necessarily the queue for food but the wait for somewhere to sit! We must have waited for at least 45 minutes before we found a place to sit. We came one evening for our dinner and were really looking forward to it, especially hoping to try food from multiple vendors but it was just ridiculous. After all, to join the local debate, you have to make an informed choice.The Time Out Market is insanely busy! And I don’t believe there is a ‘quieter’ time to visit. ![]() But to get to know that one, you have to take our Best of Lisbon walking tour.įeel free to try them all. There is also another bakery that we consider one of the best in the city. If you are Gluten Free, don’t worry, there is a really good gluten free custard tart available at Pastelaria Zarzuela, by Cais do Sodré. So try Manteigaria, which has 3 bakeries in the city center, including at the Time Out Market, Alcoa, where we challenge you to not drool by looking at all the pastries they have available Aloma, which is close to Bairro Alto and last, but not least, Fábrica da nata, a more recent bakery but already one of Lisbon’s favorites. In fact, this is where the discussion starts, as many Lisbonners prefer the copies to the original. On our Total Lisbon Tour we tell you all about this story and we include not only the ticket to the Monastery, but also a tasting of the original Custard Tart.Īnd then we have the copies ( Pastéis de Nata ), or at least the attempts to copy it. There is nothing like going to the sourse: the custard tart was invented by the monks of the Monastery of Belém and the original recipe can only be found at the bakery that still exists nearby, Pasteis de Belem. It’s an ongoing discussion and the people of Lisbon take it very seriously! The following list, which we put together for you, was the subject of a quite heated discussion among our team members and we are still counting the deaths and injuries. Where to go for the best Custard Tarts in Lisbonīest custard tarts in Lisbon….hhmmm… Ask 10 different people and you’ll probably get 10 different answers. ![]()
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