Fábulas Lisbon: restaurant, café, unique gallery & Joanna Latka’s wonderful art
Fábulas , located in Chiado Lisbon, is a combination of a restaurant, (cyber) café, wine bar and a unique gallery. There is an exhibition every other month. The month when there is no exhibition, there are various activities such as concerts or cinema cycles.
March 2010. Fábulas is showing the latest wonderful works by a Polish artist, Joanna Latka (r), currently living in Portugal, actively integrated in the Lisbon art scene with a Masters in Fine Art.
The stone arches give this space a unique characteristic. Antique furniture where some tables are old sewing machines.
Our choice: Cuzcus Prince (€ 7), soup (€ 2,60), glass of wine (€ 2,40). The atmosphere is very relaxed, it’s also a great place for lunch or just lounging.
The menu honors the fables (Fábulas means fables in Portuguese), like Cinderela, a delicious warm pumpkin salad, spinach and chevre foam…or Figaro, (chickpea, pumpkin, eggplant, cherry tomato and goat cheese….)
The exhibitions are organized by Galeria das Salgadeiras
Joanna Latka, fine art printmaking – illustration – drawing
Continually producing for exhibitions, presently incorporating unique variations of contemporary ink techniques in illustration and etching – inspired from personal life-experience and autobiographical interpretations.
Fábulas, Calçada Nova de São Francisco, 14, (00351) 213 476 323, open from 10:00 – 24:00, Saturday from 10:00 – 01:00, Sunday from 11:00 – 19:00. Highly recommended!
In summertime it has a pleasant terrace on the sidewalk.
I’d like to say that it’s not for everyone’s taste.
The service is appalling, what you’d expect from a roadside diner, if we’re to be judgemental. It ruins the whole experience, and believe me, I wanted to like this place so much that I went enough times and tried to make abstract the said abhorrent service. Needless to say, the staff was not the same / they seem to run away as soon as they can. There’s a weird vibe there… not a good vibe. Anyway, rambling.
Oh ,one more thing. What the crap are they thinking, charging for a glass of fizzy water that came from a barrel, and giving it to me as an Agua das Pedras? The list could go on…