Famous poster ‘the kiss’. As the couple leans together for a kiss, playful cupid offers them a glass of Ramos Pinto Port instead. ‘The kiss’ is one of the most recognized wine posters in the world. Founder of this Port House, Adriano Ramos Pinto, strongly believed in promotion both in Portugal and his primary market, Brazil. He backed his product with well-planned sales drive based on artistic advertisements.

The Napoleão wine shops, existing for more than 50 years in Lisbon, are specialised in the best Portuguese wines and Port wines. They can explain you all about the best Vintage years of the 20th Century.

You can taste the Port Wines for free and appreciate an exemplary service.

”Of course, all the vintage years are very good, but some years are exceptional compared with the others”.

Website Napoleão, Rua dos Fanqueiros, 70, Lisbon, world wide delivery. A new store of the Napoleão family (in the same street). Besides: they also sell Portuguese wines like Vinho Verde, Aguardentes (similar to Cognac, Schnapps or Grappa) and the legendary wild Cherries Liqueur Ginja or Ginjinha. Famous small Ginjinha bar in Lisbon, Rossio 

If you wish, you can order via their website.

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Philippe Do Rosario and his wife Marie-Aude give personalized advices. You can try a free taste of different Port Wines and of a white, rosé or red wine every day including information about the Portuguese vineyard (20-45 min). Also for groups (with reservation).

Update: this wine store closed definitively on Oct. 24, 2009. Philippe Do Rosario and Marie-Aude decided to move to France. The website will stay online in order to ship wines all over Europe.

Philippe Do Rosario in his shop ADIVINHO with wines of every Portuguese region. The wines are kept in the best conditions (air-conditioned and ideal luminosity).

During the presentations, several subjects will be evocated like the Portuguese viticulture history, the weather, the soils, the grape varieties, the different denominations and also the viticultural sector’s importance for the Portuguese economy. Languages spoken: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Deutsch and Italian.

Tasting of wines, Port wines, Moscatel, Ginja… with Portuguese cheeses and ham.

Marie-Aude, whose parents are wine producers in a wine region in France, studied agronomy and oenology, developping very early a real passion for the wines. Philippe studied economy, worked in a bank and discovered the wines with Marie-Aude.

ADIVINHO is open from Monday to Saturday from 10.30 am to 7.30 pm.
info@adivinho.com.  (00351) 218 860 419.

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Soft background music like French chansons or jazz, create an atmosphere like being in a French bistro in the 70s.

Traditional Purtuguese cooking, but besides they serve French Cuisine, Moroccan- and Mexican dishes. Excellent service.

Owner of  restaurant ‘Merca Tudo’ Guiomar Noronha: “11 years ago I opened this restaurant and I still love this place. Before that I was working for a travel agency and traveled a lot”.

“My background is half Spanish: my grand-grand mother married a Spaniard, they lived in Santa María del Mar. Don Angel and Linda Castro immigrated from Spain to Cuba. The Castros owned and lived on a 32.000-acre sugar plantation in the Oriente Province in Cuba. They had 2 boys: Fidel and Raoul Castro”.

Ementa (menu card). Merca is the short word for Mercado (Market), Tudo means all or everything.  Guiomar Noronha: “This picture is about 300 years old. I found it by coincidence in a very old newspaper in a bookshop”.

 ”The beautiful creamy fridge is from 1932 (!) and still working fine! It used to work on gas and the inside consists of marblestone. Sometimes it costs me a lot of trouble finding a part for the fridge, but I would never want to get rid of it”.

You can win a taste of Ginja if you manage to throw a coin in a small glas inside a big bottle filled with water. My friend Erika just throwed her coin into the bottle and… yes!

We enjoyed: two steaks au poivre € 30 ; two Greek salads (salada Grega) € 3 ; one bottle of great Portugese wine (Monte Velho) € 10, two coffees € 2:50. Sobremesa (desert): one delicious Bolo Árabe (with almonds & pumpkin ) € 4.

Excellent venue for a relaxed informal dinner, max. capacity of 50 people. Our experience was absolutely lovely!

Merca Tudo, Rua do Merca-Tudo 4, 1200, Lisbon.  Open from 20:00 – 02:00. Closed: Sunday. Phone 00351 21 396 93 68. Email: restaurantemercatudo@gmail.com

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This is a tiny bar where a maximum of three people can go in at a time and order a Ginja.

Ginja or Ginjinha as most people call it, is a liqueur made of a cherry-like berry called (not surprisingly) Ginja. The berries are fermented into a brandy that’s slightly bitter, slightly sweet and very sticky.

Lisbon students in September, a brand new school year…

You can order a Ginja for little money and with or without a cherry in it. The Ginja’s are on the bottom of the bottle and it requires a fair bit of skill to get just one berry into a glass. Most Portugese people like to have their Ginjinha ‘com Ginja’, with a cherry in the glass. If you don’t want it, ask for one ‘sem Ginja’ (without a Ginja).

The older Portuguese men drink their Ginja in one time. After this, they suck on the berry for a while and spit the pit onto the streets.

There’s no specific time for drinking a Ginja, the Portuguese tend to drink all day and ‘A Ginjinha’ is open from early morning.

Where to buy a bottle of Ginja in Lisbon?

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