Food & Fado
PLACES TO LISTEN FADO
Lisbon has many places to listen to fado, but you can choose from three different styles of places to listen to fado. There are the so-called "Casas de Fado" (Fado Houses), the "Fado Experiences" and the "Typical Restaurants". The "Fado Houses" are restaurants prepared for tourists and decorated to provide a show with professional fadistas. They are more formal and accept large groups. In the past, the great stars of Fado have been harassed to sing exclusively in these Houses because they attract crowds to hear them. But nowadays they do not expect to find a Carlos do Carmo or Mariza, because they currently act for thousands of people, in the big rooms of the show around the world. With the "Fado Experiences" you will have a guide who will explain the history of Fado, show you the most emblematic places and finally go to a local to hear Fado and taste something. The "Typical Restaurants" with fado has a relaxed atmosphere and allow amateur, or even you, to sing Fado Vadio, which means that everyone sings what they want and sometimes two singers exchange improvised lyrics.
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Bairro Alto District:
1. Tasca do Chico. Typical Restaurant.
2. Mascote da Atalaia. Typical Restaurant.
Alfama District:
4. A Baiuca. Typical Restaurant.
5. Mesa de Frades. Fado House.
7. Rodrigo Costa Félix. Fado Experience.
Other Districts:
8. Maria da Mouraria. Typical Restaurant.
9. Povo Lisboa. Typical Restaurant.
TASCA DO CHICO
Typical Restaurant/bar - Bairro Alto
Singers: Random
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 20€ /pax
TripAdvisor: 4.0
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If you are looking for an amazing experience, with a typical local personality and warm ambience, this is the spot. If you are just looking for food, then there are better options. Fado and the atmosphere and ambience around that is the main act, service and food play second fiddle.
Every day, 8:30pm to 1:30am
Rua Diário de Notícias, 39, Bairro Alto
Phone: (+351) 965 059 670
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MASCOTE DA ATALAIA
Typical Restaurant/bar - Bairro Alto
Singers: ★★★★★
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 25€ /pax
TripAdvisor: 4.0
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Recently refurbished, it now has a chic homely environment, but you still sit on a big table with other guests and this makes the experience even more authentic. The food and wine are good and the fado performance is absolutely amazing.
Every day, 7:00pm to 2:00am
Rua da Atalaia, 13, Bairro Alto
Phone: (+351) 211 983 973
CAFÉ LUSO
Fado House - Bairro Alto
Singers: ★★★★★
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 50€ /pax
TripAdvisor: 3.0
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Founded in 1927, this prestigious venue is inexorably linked with the history of fado – Amalia Rodrigues sang here, among other great names. The restaurant is one of the most impressive of all Lisbon's Fado Houses and in fact is fashioned out of the old cellars and stables of a former 17th-century palace.
Every day, 7:30pm to 2:00am
Travessa da Queimada, 10, Bairro Alto
Phone: (+351) 213 422 281
A BAIUCA
Typical Restaurant - Alfama
Singers: ★★★★★
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 25€ /pax
TripAdvisor: 3.5
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A small restaurant where you share tables with "strangers". The singers and musicians who enter randomly walk the different places of Alfama. Even the owner, the cook or the guests enter the party. A place you have to go.
MESA DE FRADES
Fado House - Alfama
Singers: ★★★★★
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 45€ /pax
TripAdvisor: 4.0
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The chapel of this old palace of Alfama is perhaps the most beautiful Fados room in Lisbon and continues being the preferred House of all the big fadistas like Carminho and Carlos do Carmo among others.
Close Sunday, 8:30pm to 02:00am
Rua dos Remédios, 139A, Alfama
Phone: (+351) 917 029 436
CLUBE DE FADO
Fado House - Alfama
Singers: ★★★★★
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 40€ /pax
TripAdvisor: 3.5
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In the staircase of this space, erected in 1764, they parade emotions about the Fado by the words of the poets and in the music and guitar of its owner Mário Pacheco. Great voices of Fado like Amália Rodrigues or Mariza have sung in this restaurant to stars of the whole world as you can see in the photographs that decorate the walls.
Every day, 8:00pm to 2:00am
Rua S. João da Praça, 94, Alfama
Phone: (+351) 218 852 704
RODRIGO COSTA FÉLIX
Fado Experience - Alfama
Where: Lisbon, Alfama
Estimate Time: 4hrs
Language: English, French, Spanish
Price: 70€ /pax
Included: Dinner
Airbnb Rate: 4.91
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Experience the history of Fado with the professional fado singer Rodrigo, while walking through the emblematic places of Alfama. Later on, listen Rodrigo and others Fado singers in a typical restaurant and savor a Portuguese dinner and wine at Bela or Boteco de Fá.
Availability: 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Book Here: www.airbnb.com/experiences/74276
MARIA DA MOURARIA
Typical Restaurant/bar - Mouraria
Singers: ★★★★★
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 45€ /pax
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This restaurant occupies the space that was once the home of Maria Severa, the first fado singer to become famous. Severa played guitar and sang evoking pain and melancholy of lost loves and lovers. That's why people would say that Maria Severa “used to sing Fado” (destiny).
Close Monday, 8:00pm to 2:00am
Largo da Severa, 2, Mouraria
Phone: (+351) 218 860 165
POVO LISBOA
Typical Restaurant/bar - Cais do Sodré
Singers: ★★★★★
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 15€ /pax
TripAdvisor: 3.5
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The Povo is located in one of the most trendy bohemian streets surrounded by nightlife. It smells of fado, speech and poetry. Smells of wine, green beans breaded and cod cakes. And it smells great, because it smells of Lisbon.
Every day, 6:00pm to 2:00am
Rua Nova do Carvalho, 32, Cais do Sodré
Phone: (+351) 213 473 403
TASCA DO JAIME
Typical Restaurant - Graça
Singers: ★★★★★
Ambience: ★★★★★
Food: ★★★★★
Price: 15€ /pax
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"Tasca" is the name that the Portuguese give to taverns. They usually have a rustic decoration and typical Portuguese food, tapas and drinks. Tasca do Jaime is a well-tended tavern, and its main attraction is the free Fado shows that are held every week in the afternoon, mainly on Sundays. It is worth going there, but arrive early, as usually the seats are occupied quickly.
Close Monday, Fado from 4:00pm to 8:00pm
Rua da Graça, 91, Graça
Phone: (+351) 218 881 560
LISBON LOVERS
The only thing that matters is to feel the fado. The fado is not meant to be sung; it simply happens. You feel it, you don’t understand it and you don’t explain it.
Amália Rodrigues | Fado Diva