Thursday, 21 June 2012

The Regatta of Rabelos Boats

A Regata dos Barcos Rabelo está a chegar! No próximo domingo, às 17h00, os Barcos Rabelos desfilam com as velas erguidas, nas quais exibem o nome da firma de Vinho do Porto a que pertencem. 

The Regatta of Rabelos Boats is coming! Next Sunday, at 5pm, the rabelos boats parade with their sails raised, in which they expose the name of the Port Wine company to which they belong.




Sunday, 10 June 2012

VOLVO OCEAN RACE IN LISBON: 1OTH June 2012, Portugal's National Day


Sunday, 27 May 2012






Sting, Buena Vista Social Club feat. Omara Portuando, Al Jarreau, Liz Wright and Raul Midón, Pablo Alborán feat Carminho and Pat Metheny Unity Band...quite a line-up!




Saturday, 26 May 2012

4 Lisbon Restaurants Not to Miss

New York Times


4 Lisbon Restaurants Not to Miss

by Frank Bruni

Joao Pedro Marnoto for The New York Times

Cervejaria da Esquina


IF I say that I saw the future of Portuguese cooking in a martini glass, you might conclude that I was having drunken visions.
Not at the meal and moment in question: when a server at the chef José Avillez’s brilliant restaurant Belcanto, in Lisbon, set the second in a series of amuse bouches before me...




How I Fell for Lisbon

New York Times


How I Fell for Lisbon 

by FRANK BRUNI, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times,who was the restaurant critic of The Times from June 2004 to August 2009.


Joao Pedro Marnoto for The New York Times


WE meet the places we wind up loving much the way we meet the people we fall for: on purpose and accidentally; at precisely the right moment and exactly the wrong time; in the highest of spirits and the lowest of moods.