Lisbon Market Tour & Portuguese-Goan Cooking Class with Paula

4.8
(84 reviews)

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4 hours 30 minutes (approximately)
Offered in: Portuguese and 1 more

Enjoy a private market tour and authentic cooking class in a local home with your host Paula. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Your cooking class will take place in a local home kitchen where Paula will teach you 2-3 Traditional Portuguese and Portuguese-influenced Goan dishes from her family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together.

• Private market tour of neighborhood market
• Cooking lesson in a local home
• Introduction to Portuguese and Portuguese-influenced Goan dishes
• 100% private activity
• Portuguese hospitality in a residential Almada neighborhood (short 7-minute ferry ride from downtown Lisbon)
• Vegetarian options available

Example Menu

Starter

Pataniscas de bacalhau

Traditional Portuguese cod fritters

Starter

Goan bojas

Goan gram flour fritters made with onion and cumin seeds

Main

Bacalhau com natas (cod with cream) or Goan crab curry

Learn to make a traditional Portuguese main dish or a Goan main dish

What's Included

Portuguese wine
Home-cooked Portuguese meal
Private Market Tour and Cooking Class with your host Paula
Pick up from Cacilhas ferry terminal

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Meet your host at Da Cacilhas, a red kiosk located at the exit of the ferry in Cacilhas. To get here, take a 7-min ferry from Cais do Sodre in Lisbon and get off at the Cacilhas stop. Paula will meet you at the red kiosk in Cacilhas and together you will walk 5 min to get to her apartment.

End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What to expect

A unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Your experience will take place in Almada, just a short 7-minute ferry ride from downtown Lisbon. Paula will meet you at the ferry stop in Cacilhas and take you on a lovely 10-minute walk through the center of town to her apartment, located just a few meters from the neighborhood’s main covered market. Start your experience with a tour of the neighborhood market where Paula has been visiting and shopping for decades. Then head to Paula's home kitchen where you will learn to make 2-3 Portuguese and Portuguese-Goan dishes. You will learn to make two appetizers such as pataniscas de bacalhau, traditional Portuguese cod fritters, and Goan bojas, gram flour fritters made with onion and cumin seeds. Then make a main dish, where you can select between a Portuguese or Goan main dish, such as bacalhau a braz or a Goan curry. After cooking, sit down together at Paula’s dining table or in her cooking studio table across the street. End your meal with a sweet dessert and coffee or tea.

Please note that Paula has a cat and because she lives with family, her home can be a little cluttered.

Additional info

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Please communicate directly with Paula via WhatsApp if you have questions about the menu or meeting location.
  • Please note this is not a professional cooking class in a cooking school but rather an in-home cooking and cultural experience with a local in her home kitchen
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