Breathtaking views Lisbon: restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, 10-min ferry trip & boat taxi

Nowadays Lisbon is suffering from the high number of tourists. Residents are protesting more and more…20 years ago this place was a ‘hidden gem’….. Very lovely place, stunning sunset! 

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio & friends from Japan/ Amsterdam August 2025

A 10-minutes ferry trip from Lisbon’s city center (Cais Do Sodré) to the other side of the Tagus river is really worth it! 

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio is one of my favorites, a small paradise & fresh & tasty fish! 🙂

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio : delicious (fish) lunch with Margarethe de Vrieze and Marjolein Petersen (& dog Nelson) May 2022

Right next to the elevator to the Cristo Rei Statue, restaurant Atira-te ao Rio (litt. ‘throw yourself into the river‘) is a space blessed by fabulous views over old town Lisbon.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon & friend Josephine Lucassen (official tourist guide), March 12, 2020

The menu is typically Portuguese: dishes with good presentation and tasty. We ordered one of my favorite dishes, salada com polvo  (octopus salad), and shrimps.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon & view 25 April bridge

These pictures are made in September on a beautiful sunny day, but in wintertime there’s also the possibility to enjoy the views of old town Lisbon inside the restaurant.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, September 2017

Wintertime

In wintertime the large windows allow the view to be equally (almost as) good as outside. The staff is really nice!  You can see the chefs at work in the open kitchen 🙂

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, December 2025

YOUTUBE Marieke van Gessel & open kitchen . Too cold to eat outside, December 2025.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon & Marieke, December 2025

We enjoyed: salmon (salmão Teriyaki com Puré de Batata Doce e Pakchoi · 22,00€) and Camarão à Guilho  (Garlic shrimps) · 16€ . Bottle of wine Oxalá Granítico 23€

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, December 2025. Picture: Marieke van Gessel

The restaurant features an indoor room with a burning stove. Outside terrace with heaters and blankets.

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, August 2025

From the ferry in Cacilhas, ca. 10 minutes walk: after passing some abandoned and ruinous very old warehouses (lots of lovely graffiti ), there’s restaurant Atira-te ao Rio.

NOW REMOVED: Very old abandoned warehouses with a long history (picture: 2018)

UPDATE 2025: the old warehouses are gone…..redevelopment plan restoring around 90,000 square meters, including a housing complex with around 300 homes, stores and services, a hotel with 160 rooms, social facilities and 500 parking spaces. (source: Lisboa Secreta).

 Cais do Ginjal Lisbon & Marieke van Gessel , December 2025

There’s an exhibition dedicated to the history of this emblematic and very beautiful place in Almada, in a kind of celebration between this city on the south bank and the Tagus river,

Restaurant Atira-te ao Rio, Cais do Ginjal Lisbon, April 2023

How to get there? 

Take a (cheap) ferry trip from the Cais do Sodré ferry terminal to Cacilhas,  (timetable vice verca) and after a 10 minutes walk along abadonded warehouses near the river Tagus there’s restaurant Atira-te ao Rio.

Cais do Sodré ferry terminal to Cacilhas,  (timetable vice verca)