vinho natural & petiscos
A small room in Mouraria with twelve seats, one fridge, and no cocktail menu. We pour wines made by people who pick their own grapes and don't add much else. The list changes on Mondays. The bread comes from Padaria Machado, two streets over. We don't take reservations.
our fridge, most evenings
wines by the glass
semana de 9–15 Dez 2024
written by hand, changed on Mondays
Brancos
Rita & João Mendes · Dão · Encruzado skin-contact, 4 days on skins · 2022
Vasco Croft · Vinho Verde · biodynamic Loureiro, granite soils · 2023
Muxagat · Douro Superior · Rabigato, Códega, old vines at 600m · 2021
Tintos
Tiago Sampaio · Douro · Tinta Amarela, whole-cluster, carbonic · 2023
Sara & António · Dão · Touriga Nacional, Jaen, Alfrocheiro · 2020 ← our pick this week
Rui Gomes · Lousada · Vinhão, zero sulphur, crunchy, cold serve · 2023
Filipa Pato · Bairrada · 100% Baga, sandy soils, elegant tannin · 2021
Laranja & Pét-nat
Rita Ferreira · Douro · Bastardo rosé pét-nat, bone-dry, wild yeast · 2023
Aphros · Vinho Verde · Loureiro 60 days in talha, waxy, amber · 2022
all wines available by the bottle too — ask Cintia or Tomás
snacks — nothing fried, nothing frozen
We don't have a kitchen — just a knife, a board, and good suppliers. If you want a full dinner, try Tasca do Chico next door. Tell them we sent you.
sourdough from Rua do Benformoso, served with butter & flor de sal
tinned fish — today: sardines in olive oil from Santa Catarina, Açores
half-wheel, runny center, from Herdade do Beco, served with quince
hand-carved black pig ham, Barrancos, 24 months, with grissini
house-cured olives from Tomás's grandmother's trees in Portalegre
flame-grilled at the table, smoked pork from Trás-os-Montes
mixed board — presunto, queijo, conservas, olives, bread, pickles
Cintia's recipe. dense, not sweet. made Tuesday & Friday mornings
Cintia, opening night, March 2021
Cintia Ferreira opened this room in March 2021 with two cases of wine and a borrowed corkscrew. The plan was to sell wine to pay rent. The room was meant to be a studio. Plans change.
Tomás joined six months later. He does the buying, mostly from producers he's visited in person — small quintas in the Douro, Dão, Alentejo, Vinho Verde. The rule is simple: we only pour wines we'd drink ourselves on a Tuesday night.
The space seats twelve, maybe fourteen if people don't mind elbows. There's no music system — Tomás plays records from a crate he keeps behind the bar. Mostly fado, some jazz, occasionally Stereolab if it's late enough.
No Wi-Fi. Talk to each other.
On Sundays we open early and close early. Cintia bakes. Tomás reads the paper. It's quiet and we like it that way. If the door is closed five minutes past opening, we're running late — knock twice.
Rua dos Lagares, 28
Mouraria, 1100-376 Lisboa
Between the blue door and the place that sells batteries. Look for the corkscrew painted on the wall.
How to get here
Tram 28 to Largo da Graça, walk downhill 4 minutes. Or Metro to Martim Moniz, exit toward the mosque, climb the stairs past the mural of the cat.
Instagram is the only place we post. No website needed, except this one.
look for the door
Some of the people whose bottles you'll find here, this month or next.
Aphros
Vinho Verde
Filipa Pato
Bairrada
Muxagat
Douro Superior
Folias de Baco
Douro
Casa de Mouraz
Dão
Quinta da Palmirinha
Lousada
Conceito
Douro
Niepoort
Douro
Quinta do Infantado
Pinhão
