Bairro Alto Food & Wine Tour: Petiscos & Drinks in Lisbon

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Duration3h

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN

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Taste petiscos and Portuguese wine in the bars where Lisbon's characters still gather.

Devour Lisbon's Bairro Alto Evening Food & Wine Tour is a three-hour walking tour through one of Lisbon's most historic neighborhoods, where you stop at four local spots to sample small plates called petiscos and uniquely Portuguese drinks. Your English-speaking guide leads you through both old establishments and modern additions to the quarter, moving between tastings of cheese and chouriço, deep-fried green beans, croquettes, fish soup, duck rice, and pastel de nata with port wine. The tour includes seven or more food tastes and five alcoholic drinks; those with dietary restrictions can request adaptations for vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten-free, or dairy-free needs by emailing after booking.

The Experience

You arrive in Bairro Alto on an evening when the neighborhood is waking up. Your guide meets you and starts moving through the backstreets, stopping first at a spot that serves cheese and chouriço with green wine—the kind of place locals have been coming to for years. The walk itself is the tour; you're not sitting in a restaurant but moving between four different establishments, each one showing you a different angle of how Lisbon eats and drinks.

At the second stop, you taste peixinhos da horta—deep-fried green beans—and a mini-cocktail. The third brings an alheira croquette, a Portuguese specialty. By the fourth stop, you're into the heavier tastes: fish soup and arroz de pato, duck rice cooked in broth, paired with red wine. The final tasting is pastel de nata with port wine, the custard tart that defines Portuguese dessert. Seven or more food tastes and five alcoholic drinks across the three hours means you're sampling, not feasting, and the pace keeps moving through the neighborhood rather than settling into one place.

The tour covers both Bairro Alto and Principe Real, two neighborhoods with different characters but the same food culture. Your guide is English-speaking and knows which spots are old haunts of Lisbon's past and which are newer additions. If you're vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten-free, or dairy-free, you can request adaptations after booking by emailing the Guest Experience team—though not every stop will have a replacement option. The tour is not suitable for vegans or those with celiac disease, and anyone with serious food allergies will sign a waiver at the start.

What’s included

English-speaking local guide.
tastings at four neighborhood spots.
seven or more food samples including cheese, chouriço, deep-fried green beans, alheira croquette, fish soup, duck rice, and pastel de nata.
five Portuguese alcoholic drinks including green wine, red wine, cocktail, and port wine.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearby

Operated by Devour Portugal Food Tours

Is this one for you?Book this tour if you're spending an evening in Lisbon and want to eat and drink the way locals do, moving between real neighborhood spots rather than a single restaurant. The small-group format and fixed itinerary mean the night unfolds at a set pace, so you're not deciding where to go next—just following the guide and tasting what comes.