Lisbon: Food & Wine Walking Tour with 14 Tastings

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1/18

Duration4h

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN

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Lisbon food tour through Mouraria with codfish cakes, port wine, ginjinha and local stories

You’ll taste your way through Lisbon’s downtown and Mouraria neighborhoods with 14 different bites and drinks—from codfish cakes with green wine to bifanas with beer, port wine pairings, samosas, cheese and ham, plus Ginjinha liquor in an old bar. Expect laughs with your local guide and small surprises around every corner—a real slice of Lisbon you can feel.

Step-by-step itinerary

Lisbon food and cultural walking tour

Start at Rossio Square
Pass Praça da Figueira
Pass Praça Martim Moniz
Explore traditional Mouraria district
Taste Portuguese Codfish Cake with Green Wine
Learn history of Port wine
Try typical Bifana with cold beer
Toast with Ginjinha in old bar
Sample cheese, ham, exotic snack, and sweets
End at Restauradores Square

The Experience

We kicked off the Lisbon food & wine walking tour right in Rossio Square, where the tiles are chipped but the energy is sort of contagious. Our guide—Miguel—had this way of weaving in little jokes between facts, like how the pigeons here know more about history than most locals. He handed us our first codfish cake (salty, warm, a bit crispy on the edges) with a glass of green wine that tasted almost fizzy. I didn’t expect to like it so much at 11am but hey—when in Portugal. The smell of frying batter kind of stuck to my fingers for the next block.

We wandered into Mouraria after that. The streets got narrower and suddenly I felt like we’d slipped out of tourist Lisbon into something older—there were old men playing cards outside a café, and someone’s radio was crackling fado music through an open window. Miguel stopped us at this tiny shop for bifana sandwiches—pork sliced thin and soaked in sauce—and a cold beer that honestly hit better than any fancy cocktail. He told us about how these sandwiches are “worker fuel” and then laughed when I tried to say “bifana” correctly (I didn’t). Somewhere along Praça Martim Moniz we tried a samosa too—apparently there’s a big Goan community here, which I never would’ve guessed.

By the time we got to the port wine tasting I’d lost count of what number snack we were on (Miguel said fourteen total but I think he was sneaking us extras). There was marmelada—kind of like quince paste—with cheese and ham stacked on crusty bread. The port was sweeter than I remembered from home; maybe it’s just better here? We finished in this old bar with Ginjinha shots—cherry liqueur that burned just enough to make everyone giggle. Someone spilled theirs and nobody cared. The light was starting to fade by then but I still remember how everyone lingered over their last pastry, not really wanting it to end.

What’s included

Your day includes 14 typical petiscos (Portuguese snacks) paired with local wines and drinks: codfish cake with green wine, samosa with red green wine, port wine alongside marmelada, broa bread, ham and cheese.
bifana pork sandwich with beer.
Ginjinha liquor.
plus coffee and pastry—all led by a local guide as you walk through downtown Lisbon and Mouraria.

Good to know

Moderate physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problems

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