Forget dashing across the city (no one likes to rush here), you’ll lazily eat and drink your way around Lisbon with one of our local Lisbon hosts, which in our eyes is the best way to explore.

In the dreamy, hillside neighborhoods of Mouraria and Alfama, you’ll experience Lisbon life how it should be lived - that is to say full of long lunches of grilled seafood, endless plates of Portuguese petiscos, stopping by tascas where you can grab the house specialty, and timing a visit to a bakery at just the right glorious moment when Pastéis de nata emerge from the oven.

Try freshly grilled octopus, regional sheep’s milk cheeses, specialty grilled sardines, pastéis de bacalhau, and a surprising dish or two from a restaurant serving authentic Angolan cuisine - we bet you weren’t expecting that!

But as a former colony of Portugal, the flavors of West Africa are sprinkled throughout the city if you know where to look.

There’s nothing better than discovering a new culture through its food, and we’re sure you’ll agree that everything tastes better in the sunshine.