Fresh seafood and ginginha, doesn't get much better than that

Upon arriving to Lisbon, GrubGirl and I had no idea what to expect. Portugal was put on our trip because, hey, why not?  So we had to do some reading on the city, and obviously, the first thing we looked up was what to eat...I mean, we have a food blog to keep up here. 

For all intents and purposes, Lisbon is on the ocean, so super fresh seafood made a ton of sense, but what the heck is a Ginginha?  Well, it's apparently a little treat for the Portuguese people consisting of cherry liqueur. You may be asking yourself, "why is THAT special?" I'm not sure, but we sure saw places to get them all over the place, so we got one. 

We got ours at likely a little tourist trap as it was close to the water and a huge plaza, but whatever, ours came with chocolate. Yes, the cherry liqueur was poured into a chocolate cup. You get two pours, then you eat the cherry flavored chocolate cup. 

Not a bad way to start the day, and for less than €2,00, not expensive either. 

Before we get to the seafood, and while Portugal isn't known for their pastries (and this pastry is actually French) but this thing was amazing. It's called a mille-feuille, which translates into "thousand leaves."  (Learn more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille-feuille). But this thing was amazing, and again, under €2. They say Portugal is 20-30% cheaper than the rest of Europe, so I knew we'd like it. And when it comes to chocolate, that's what GrubGirl likes, so that's what she gets. 

Other meals that we had, which included a drink, cost under €8. The Super Bock was everywhere, so I had to try it. It tastes like a Blonde Shiner for my Texas friends and a Yuengling Lite for my east coast friends. And if you haven't had Shiner or Yuengling, we're not friends anyway. 

Now onto the fresh seafood. We went to Ribadouro Restaurante Cervejarra (http://www.cervejariaribadouro.pt/index_en.php), where most of it was purchased by the Kilo, which is roughly 2.2 pounds. It could cost anywhere from €17 a kilo for the clams, baked in a white wine, garlic sauce, to the Tiger Prawns, which were roughly €110 a kilo. 

The clams were amazing. I could have probably eaten them all day they were that good. But we had other food to try as well. 

The jumbo prawns were roughly €45 a kilo, so we got around 400 grams, which was around 10 of these guys, soaked in a garlic butter sauce. 

We also indulged ourselves with a potato omelet with seafood in it. Seemed very breakfast like, but when we saw the people next to us get it, we jumped on that quickly. 

While we were eating, we saw someone who wanted to know what a tiger prawn is. It's just a HUGE piece of shrimp, about 700-800 grams (1.5-1.8 pounds) per piece. While we didn't get a picture of that exchange, we took one of one of the seafood cases with the tiger prawns. They are on the tray chilling between the lobsters. Just for an example, the jumbo shrimp we ordered above are the lower shelf to the left, and while still big, they don't even compare to the tiger prawns. 

Lisbon was over in a flash, but man was it delicious. 

Until next time...