Lisbon's cervejarias trading for half a century or more

Map of 5 locations in Lisbon, Portugal

A cervejaria is not a brewery and not quite a restaurant: it is a beer hall with a marble counter, a tank of draught running all day, and a kitchen that answers to shellfish and steak in roughly equal measure. These are the Lisbon houses that have been doing it since at least the 1950s, several of them in buildings that were a convent, a brewery floor or a cold meats shop first. Expect percebes by weight, prego do lombo, croquetes eaten standing up, and queues at the ones that never took bookings.

Places in this collection

  • Gambrinus — Opened in 1936 as a delicatessen and cold meats shop before becoming a beer hall and restaurant, and for most of the last century the count…
  • Portugália — The Almirante Reis beer hall opened in 1925 and reopened after renovation in 2024, and remains the headquarters of a name that has since fr…
  • Cervejaria Ribadouro — One of the city's oldest shellfish houses, past 75 years of trade by 2022, on the corner where Avenida da Liberdade meets Rua do Salitre. T…
  • Cervejaria Ramiro — Opened in 1956 as a plain casual eating house at the Intendente end of Almirante Reis, and still built around percebes, oysters, carabineir…
  • Cervejaria Trindade — The dining room is the church, cloister and refectory of a Trinitarian convent that stood for eight centuries, bought in 1836 by the Galici…

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