Tasca da Esquina

Lovely spot for creative/modern takes on classic petiscos and other Portuguese dishes. We loved everything we ordered, but especially the scallops, tuna tartare and pica-pau. Service was friendly and all the dishes were well executed. The restaurant is located in the wonderful area of Campo de Ourique, which is has nice shopping streets to stroll after lunch or before your dinner. *To the diners docking this and many other restaurants of stars for being charged for bread and olives placed on the table, it is a very common practice in Portugal as well as a number of other European countries, and simple research before traveling anywhere would easily uncover this. Prices are always stated on the menu, but you should always assume nothing is free, and you can just say no thank you if you don't want to pay a few euros for it.

Highly recommend if you love Portuguese tapas. Great food and friendly service. The menu is extensive so we just asked the nice waiter to choose on our behalf. Four dishes plus a dessert more than satisfied our hunger for around 30 euro per head plus wine. You can book a table inside but outside it's pot luck.

Passion fruit scallops were excellent. Seared tuna was also very tasty. Their signature cod and potato dish was way too salty. I didn’t like that they put olives and bread on the table without asking. Luckily I noticed them on the menu and didn’t touch them. Unsuspecting tourists who eat the olives and bread, thinking they are complimentary, are in for a surprise when the bill comes! A very odd thing happened when we tried to take our leftover bottled water (that we paid for) at the end of the meal. A waiter chased us outside to the sidewalk and said we couldn’t bring the water with us. This made no sense!

We had the pleasure of dining at La tasca da esquina today and it was an extraordinary experience from start to finish. The food was simply outstanding—each dish was expertly crafted, showcasing incredible flavors and high-quality ingredients. The service was equally impressive. Our waiter Edgar was not only friendly and attentive but also made us feel genuinely welcomed throughout the evening. We were pleasantly surprised when we were invited to enjoy a complimentary dessert and shots, which added a lovely touch to our night. Overall, the restaurant exceeded all expectations. If you're looking for a dining experience with exceptional food and service, this is the place to go! Highly recommend!

great staff, great food and specially great dessert! (recommend the salted caramel tart, the squid and the seared tuna!)

Both the calamari and mushrooms and the seafood rice were reasons enough to come back. Super attentive and friendly service. Portion sizes are large and shareable

An outstanding restaurant in the heart of a vibrant neighborhood . The food is meticulously prepared and served. The food has Portuguese roots but can satisfy any food palate. The combination of flavors is sensory satisfying. The combination of ingredients and presentation is quality . The staff is attentive and helpful! I would recommend this restaurant to anyone wanting a high quality dining experience!

The seafood tapas were all excellent. The kitchen has great respect for the seafood and all were very well executed in terms of doneness. The menu is broad, with both tapas and mains, so there is plenty to try. Well selected Portuguese wine list too. You may choose to decline the cover charged bread, pate (hummus today) and cheese if you wish, as there is lots to try on the menu.

One of the best meals I've ever had. Tasca da esquina knows how to create the best sauce pairing with their seafood. When in Lisbon you must get seafood everything is so fresh and tasty from the pan-seared tuna , scallops, cod , and shrimp we were stuffed by the end. The service was fine which is typical for Europe. The ambiance was so cute there were tables outside and inside. The tables are pretty close together which worked in our favor because we got dish ideas from the people around us lol. Really recommend coming here if you find yourself in Lisbon it was 1/2 of my favorite meals while we were here!

Me and my family came here for our last meal in Portugal. I found this restaurant through Eater. It wasn't easy finding a restaurant that wasn't too far away and took a reservation for 10. We had a 7pm reservation which was the earliest availability (people in Europe eat later than the states). When we got there, we were the only party there. We ordered 5-6 starters and 3 main dishes. The food came out extremely fast. The starters were delicious. The mains were also very good. The waiter was very good at his job. We also ordered a bottle of wine, celebrating my parents 50 year anniversary and a few birthdays. The only complaint I had was I found a piece of hair on the scallops dish, not on the food but on the plate. I didn't say anything since it wasn't touching the food and I didn't want to ruin the moment. I also found some lint string in one of the stews. I was able to look past these things and fully enjoy the fantastic food and flavors. Amazing meal and family favorite meal for the whole trip.

Found this restaurant on Eater's Essential Restaurants in Lisbon list, and thought it would make a great final meal on our trip to Portugal. Tasca da Esquina certainly did not disappoint! The ambience is trendy and attracts both locals, expats, and visitors. The menu offers a wide selection of tapas, main dishes, desserts, and wines. We decided to order tapas - our favorite being the Lascas de Bacalhau with potato and egg. If you're a chocolate lover, be sure to try the chocolate mousse (usually offered in the dessert sampler). The service was excellent (like most places in Portugal), and our waiter offered some very helpful suggestions for both wine and dishes. I'd definitely dine here again the next time I'm in Lisbon!

A must try while visiting Lisbon. Limited seating so make reservations. The service is unmatched and the food is delicious!

Stopped here for a light lunch and we found the food delicious. My wife had the tuna tartare and she loved it. I had the cockels and I have to say they were the best I ever had. Absolutely fresh and with a lemon sauce that was devine. This is a gourmet restaurant with prices that reflect its quality. Reserving for dinner recommended.

Rainy first night in Lisbon and what a great experience. Sat in the room away from the bar which was quieter...not a lot of English spoken but nothing disappointed.tapas to share in a hip, well appointed setting with friendly service. The wine was so cheap and so well paired with all of our pescatarian choices. We tasted well prepared creative dishes of scallops, cod and shrimp along with a vegetarian, just enough zip curry to please our trio. Topped it off with a magical pudding that left us guessing exactly what the ingredients were. Great first night experience in a friendly setting.

A lot of restaurants in Lisbon are closed on Monday so we took the precaution of booking a table at Tasca da Esquina a couple of weeks before our mini break. This was a very good idea as this charming gourmet restaurant, run by the famous Portuguese chef Vitor Sorbal, was absolutely packed by 9pm. We managed to get a great table in the back room which is very light and airy, a wall of big glass windows providing a good view of the world passing by. The tables are well spaced; simply but beautifully laid with quality cutlery which was very pleasing on the eye and felt great in the hand. The crockery had been similarly well thought out and really complemented the wonderful food. The front room of the restaurant contains the open plan kitchen and a few bench type tables with high stools; again it's light and airy with white walls and light wood. I'm guessing this would be quite an entertaining place to eat if you like watching chefs at work and seeing the hustle and bustle of a modern, well run kitchen. To drink we ordered up some water and a bottle of the reasonably priced Quinta do Pinto Sauvignon Blanc 2009 from the Lisboa region. Nicely chilled, this was crisp, fresh and a good accompaniment to the food that was to come. In the evening there are three ways you can go about ordering here. There is the standard type menu which gives you a normal sized portion of a modern take on classic Portuguese dishes such as the Bitoque or baked cod. The is also the option to order from a selection of twenty or so petiscos (a Portuguese variation on the small plate concept) or you can go for the four, five, six or seven portion mystery tasting menu in which you place your meal in the hands of the chef. After much debate we went for one, five portion, tasting menu and a few specific petiscos and just shared the whole lot. With that out of the way we turned our attention to the olives, bread and the intriguing cheese. Well this was a great start to the meal; the beautifully flavoured, plump juicy olives were the best I tasted during this mini break. The cheese was very special, a small round with a thick but edible skin which contained a runny, pungent yet very flavoursome, centre. Think of a cold fondue and you will not be far off the mark. Wow. We had too many dishes to recall in any great detail here but on the fishy side of things there was a really good dish of crab mayonnaise which came with very delicate toasts, a beautifully cooked and seasoned rare tuna, a lovely dish of plump little clams which came with a tasty sauce and a delicately flavoured piece of ray which sat on top of small mound of mash and olive oil. Meat highlights were the black pork toasts, wafer thin and strongly flavoured they came on top of an aubergine puree, and the rare sirloin steak. By this point in the proceeding we were pretty well stuffed and as much as we wanted to partake of a dessert even one to share was beyond. My advice would to make sure that your eyes are not bigger than your belly. Having said that I was very impressed with the two Portuguese chaps who had the table behind us, they managed to devour two seven course tasting menus between them!! The patrons of this fine establishment seemed in the main to be well heeled locals with the average age somewhere in the 40's. The staff are young, knowledgeable, proud of their trade and eager to help you find a tasty supper. A very fine dining experience and one which I look forward to trying again when we are next in town.

This place is quite fantastic! I was brought here by a local who I came to visit in Lisboa. We had a late reservation, around 10pm, and I was glad to know that they accepted such late reservations because we had had a very long day touring many different parts of Lisboa. We decided to try the chef's tasting menu option so that we could try more of a variety of dishes. This was a great way to go! Especially since they sent us different appetizers and entrees, so we were able to share food to experience all of the different flavors. The food is more nouveau cuisine, rather than traditional Portuguese dishes. However, there was not one dish we tried that we did not like. The local I was with ordered the wine. There are so many amazing wines in Portugal that it is tough to go wrong with anything you choose. The dessert was my favorite. It was similar to a flan or custard in texture, but had a passion fruit flavor, & passion fruit happens to be my most favorite fruit! There was not anything unique about the ambiance or location at all (hence, one less star), yet overall it was a wonderful experience. It is a little spendy compared to other places I tried, but well worth it.

I went as a single diner, and was fabulously taken care of by the staff. Each dish was bursting with a variety of flavors and textures, and the portion sizes were perfect to allow a tasting of various dishes. The tastes of a fine dining experience without the stuffiness.

Excellent restaurant. Be ready to try something new because the flavor palette was definitely something that was unexpected and new. I loved the opening appetizers that they brought out so enjoy those! We had the tasting menu of 8 courses. One of us had the wine pairing, which while very affordable, was good, not great. However, the most important thing is to keep an open mind and to be ready to try something new.

The service was slow but the food was very, very good. This is not really a tasca, it is a gourmet restaurant. Be forewarned, it is also not priced like a tasca.