I realize that Portugal is all about seafood :) but we have 2 people in our party who don't eat seafood - one for allergy reasons, another by preference.
Any restaurant or general food recommendations that might help us in both Porto and Lisbon? Going in June/July 2025 so summer months if it matters (not sure that it does.)
thanks in advance. Yes, I know it's not ideal but such is the life of the travel planner in the group!
Actually, Portugal is not all seafood! Lots of pork, beef and chicken to be found on all or most restaurant menus. Roasted chicken with piri-piri sauce, lean steaks, suckling pig, meat stews - you should have no problem finding options. If the seafood allergy is only shellfish, I recommend at least trying bacalhau a bras, a cod, potato and onion casserole...
I can't recommend a specific restaurant but we had no issues in any restaurant we were at in September. There were plenty of non seafood options.
We just came back from a week-long trip to Lisbon and it was surprisingly more crowded than I had anticipated, given that it's a low season. I suspect the summer months might be worse if you go to popular places like Sintra, for example. Or even within Lisbon, popular attractions like the Jeronimos Monastry might have a long line.
There are a few restaurants that specifically serve seafood only, but the majority do have other meat options in their menu. My daughter is allergic to seafood and we didn't find it a problem when we ordered seafood while she chose other meat or vegetarian options in most restaurants. One thing I would highly recommend is to book restaurants using the app TheFork. Throughout our week-long stay, we used the app to book half of the restaurants where we planned to eat and got 30% discount off the food in most of them! Saved us quite a lot just on meals alone for the four of us. A few of the excellent restaurants where we ate using the App with 30% discount come to mind--Sebastiao, Alpendre and Animal Restaurant & Bar.
