As Velhas

This is the very first restaurant that I ate when I first visited Portugal. Service: excellent! Very friendly staff, we came in late at night after a very long flight. The infant in our group unfortunately vomitted due to the discomfort from long travel and the staff did not mind and took very good care of us. Food: excellent! We had fish, shrimps, octopus and beef- all very tasty and very well cooked. Prices are also reasonable. If you happen to be near this area during your first visit to Lisbon, I highly recommend coming to this restaurant first. I was a little wary about the service in Portugal restaurants (due to online reviews) but this establishment set us up in a very good mood for the rest of our visit to this country!

A lovely restaurant with exceptional service and providing outstanding hospitality from the moment we walked through the door until we left, happy and content. The friendliest staff provided the best service. The food was so very delicious, it's hard to describe how good that steak was. And dessert was all kinds of yum.

Best vegetarian food I have ever had so far in Portuguese. (Although not everything is vegetarian here.) We absolutely loved the vegetables they make here, so amazing! The veggie soup the just wonderful, and the green veggies with chestnut is delicious, even the water here is sweet. So freshly made is the mushroom… The veggie food we tried here just has a SOUL! Bravo!!!

Spent a couple of nights in Lisbon and ate at As Velhas on the second night. Lovely food and friendly service. Good sized portions. The restaurant was busy and the atmosphere was good.

Amazing old school restaurant with a cool history. Experienced waiters make the meal enjoyable and the food is devine. We had the fish speciality, rabbit and octopus 🐙 rice and shared. It was awesome 👏

Such a cute place. The waiters know everyone and it is so cute and humbling to see. Everyone speaks English and the dishes are traditional and wonderful.

This was an excellent experience on my last night in Lisbon and reflecting back, one which fills me with nostalgia to return to this wonderful city. The food and wine was of excellent quality and well priced. The staff were the most friendly and sincere I have ever encountered and the very best that hospitality has to offer. They are the standard which all other catering staff I will now compare to! Inside, I admired the aesthetic, a very tastefully decorated interior design. The restaurant offers/achieves an authentic, traditional, warm and intimate atmosphere. I would highly recommend this restaurant to others as a true taste of Lisbon, Portugal.

Very welcoming and outstanding service. The food was excellent and very tasty. Authentic portuguese food! Highly recommended.

Food was great. Service was so friendly and nice in spite of being a very busy night. Best Seabass I have had in a long time. Nice wine selection too.

Great service and great food. Wait staff was fantastic . Neighborhood feel and convenient location.

I don't write many reviews on Yelp, and if I do, it's almost always very positive. In this case, unfortunately, this one is not. The concierge at our hotel highly recommended this restaurant so we decided to try it. I ordered fish, which was so salty I couldn't eat it. The dinner came with a few boiled potatoes and string beans that were cold, overcooked and tasteless. The server never came back to he table to check on how everything was. We were sitting by the front door so when guests entered, I heard them say that their hotel recommended them. It makes me wonder if this place is giving kick backs to the hotels to send people there.

Quite literally the best restaurant in Lisbon! Antonio the waiter is the cutest and kindest man we have ever met! Food is amazing and they staff is so sweet. You have to go here if you're in Lisbon. Try the steak with pepper sauce. 7 of 11 of my friends got the steak and say it's the best steak they've ever had. We spent 2.5 hours here and Antoni even helped us to make sure we had a ride home. He stood on the sidewalk with us until we got the Uber. Also try the fried green beans and the house red wine was perfect with the steak! If I'm ever in Lisbon again I will be back!

Great little restaurant within walking distance of the Rossio. We originally made a dinner reservation on our own. When we arrived at our hotel, we walked for a nearby restaurant recommendation for lunch. The concierge recommended this place. The restaurant was small and quiet, aside from a table of tourists conducting a noisy FaceTime convo (not Americans, to my relief). We started off with bread, butter and olives (Portuguese restaurants charge for it). We had a refreshing bottle of house vinho verde. We shared salad, soft cheeses and ham to start. All excellent. The entrees were awesome. I had monkfish with clams. My wife had shrimp with olive oil and garlic. My friends had shrimp soup and sea bass. All excellent. We ended the meal with espresso. Our waiter was really pleasant. The real dral

It's a family run restaurant so expect the service to be on the slower side, we waited almost an hour for our food and so did others. The traditional Portuguese food we thought was a bit one dimensional but overall well prepared. Price wise, it's slightly pricey but understandable for this part of time.

Following two weeks of frequent dining at As Velhas, we thanked Guadalupe and her team for their warm hospitality and the wonderful culinary experience we had. This is no ordinary restaurant; it's a warm and authentic Portuguese home-restaurant! Our dinners were not only amazingly tasty, but each was a memorable celebration that helped to make our friends' reunion this year in Lisbon very special. Our sincere thanks again to Guadalupe, as well as to Sr Paolo. Sr Antonio and the entire team! We highly recommend a visit to As Velhas and promise it won't be your last!!

A very cozy family owned restaurant where locals eat. Ambiance and staff are super friendly! I had the filet submerged in mushrooms sauce (served with home made freshly cut fries). Probably the best I've ever had!!! Highly recommend it his place, but go with an empty stomach because the portions are huge!

If you are looking for a delicious, traditional Portuguese dinner look no further. This place was hands down our favorite meal during our trip. Service is professional and friendly. The owner came around twice to check on us and our waiter was full of excellent recommendations. The atmosphere is slightly upscale but the dress is casual. We arrived with reservations on a Monday night (but not needed since we dined at 1900). Olives dressed in fresh parsley and garlic and bread were already on the table. The olives (€1.50) were delightful. We passed on the bread to save room and were not charged from them. Entrees are a bit pricey for the area but the portions are huge! Everything was cooked to perfection and well-seasoning. We preferred the pork and clams over the cod but both were delicious. If you are light eaters I recommend sharing a meal. The wine list is well curated with lots of local wine. We order a wonderful Vinho Verde (€18) to wash everything down with. Make sure you save room for some Port and homemade desserts.

After conducting substantial research to feed a picky family with varying pallet preferences including my vegetarian dad, i called places before hand to check to see if any one had flexibility in their kitchen to facilitate our requirements. We walked into the restaurant on our second day visiting Lisbon. I told them that I had called and made reservations and they immediately, Mr. Santos knew whom we were. After being promptly seated, we were offered a small appetizer accessible to all. Guadaloupe, the owner, ran down the specials and then we began the culinary dialogue. She offered to make each dish to our liking, spicing up and tailoring each plate to our preferences. My mom had the chicken the first day and it was out of this world. In Portugal, they are known for their seafood and often cook the same fish in different ways, especially the Cod Fish. The second visit was likely on the 4th day of our trip and was even more delightful. Guadaloupe made some vegetables lightly sauteed in fine herbs. My dad loved it. I had the lamb chops, my mom the chicken and wife, the shrimp. It was exquisite. The accompanying wines were from Douro region and some of the tastiest full bodied but distinct with the traditional Douro flavor. They have a very good selection and range. We eventually chatted with Gaudaloupe who recommended a few other places to see and visit. All her suggestions were excellent. She is a wonderful person who loves to please her patron's with fresh tasting food and enables her staff to do much the same. I particularly love the place for its fish variety and the sauces. The vegetables are very fresh and the seafood is from the catch of the day. I highly recommend As Velhas to try traditional Portugese food with a great and friendly staff and warm ambiance!

Absolutely amazing venue with lovely staff. The food was perfection. An absolute hidden gem in Lisbon. Highly recommend.

My concierge suggested this place when I asked where could I hold a small business lunch near by. When I arrived, it was 1:30PM. The place looked closed. I just assumed they opened for 2 or maybe even later, as is the Portuguese way, and began to peruse their menu on the door when it opened. It was the owner. He said if I didn't mind waiting a bit for the food that he could seat me and give me wine right away. I couldn't argue with that. It was 90*F outside anyways. However, I did think to myself all restaurants in Portugal should state that exact thing on the door. Once I was in, I doubled the restaurants occupancy. The owner was speaking with a man near the back after he sat me in a comfortable side table. The waiter was actually quick, polite, and responsive, but knew little English. Few people in Portugal have great English. Portuguese is a beautiful language - I suggest you brush up a bit before visiting. It helped me out greatly. OK, it helped me out some. My Portuguese is terrible. Some speak Spanish, so that helped a bit. Because, as an American, I know a LOT of Spanish words for food and drink. Anyways, I had about 4 courses over the course of an hour and a half between me and a realtor. We had too much wine, langostinos, rice, beans, shrimp, a bunch of stuff I forget how to spell or pronounce that was likely raw beef maybe and some crab-like thing, mushrooms, etc etc. Some of the best food I have had in Portugal. Two bottles of house wine, loads of seafood we couldn't finish, and a few small sides set me back €50 for two people! Thank you, Restaurante As Velhas.

I'm sure their food is fine but they aren't very friendly or welcoming. We walked in and stood there for 5 min without anything greeting us or saying anything. Not a big place so waiters and owner definitely saw us. We weren't sure what to do until a waiter finally came up to us and said that they had no tables. They should hire a hostess or just not ignore their customers.

This was one of the most amazing meals I've had in like...forever! Good for us - bad for them that they're off of the main street because if they were on the primary restaurant row, you would have NO hope of getting a table at this place. They are THAT good! To echo the previous reviews, it definitely WAS one of our best meals in Portugal AND, I think their secret is that they keep it simple. The dishes are just basic, perfectly seasoned and...excellent. Top that off with the most accommodating and welcoming proprietor and servers, and you have a winning combination. They are available and informative, but not overbearing, yet always available. They understand the concept of "service." Planning a trip to Europe and not sure if you want to include Portugal in your plans? Just having a chance to eat at this restaurant should help tip the scales this way.

One of our best meals. The food and service are exceptional. Guadeloupe, the family part owner, was extremely accommodating and gracious throughout our meal. She and the waiter guided us to order the perfect meal and wine for us and were tremendous hosts. The food was perfect. The seabass in olive oil and garlic was some of the best I've had. The fried sardines very tasty. Cod was great and chocolate cake and lemon meringue pie amazing. Topped it all off with some local cherry liquor. Price for two was extremely reasonable at 70 euros. Highly recommended for an excellent meal, great experience, and nice value.

Good simply prepared fish and vegetables and other Portuguese dishes. Wonderful chocolate dessert. Very warm , gracious female member of the family oversees in the evening, offsetting the more formal waiters. Small, intimate. Lots of tourists in the evening - French, British, American - but then so were we. Found it charming.