Top 5 places to eat healthy in Lisbon
We all like pizza and ice cream every once in a while, the cheesier and the sweeter the better. However the hearthbreaking truth is that, we can't have them every single day (sad face).
With that in mind we give 5 places to eat in Lisbon where your healthy food will feel as decadent as you wish it to be.
Gomo
Healthy food, any time of day- this is Gomo. Located in Saldanha, more than a restaurant Gomo is also a fruit shop. With a nutritionally reviewed menu, you'll be able to choose from soups, wraps, salads, burgers, açaí bowls and smoothies, to their handmade ice creams made with 100% fresh fruit. It has a fresh environment inside and out with a simple and modern decor on the inside and a terrace in which you can not only enjoy the sun and the food but appreciate Saldanha's beautiful architecture. It's the perfect option for a light meal in a warm sunny day.
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Pachamama
Pachamama is the name of a goddess manly worshiped by the Incas and it symbolizes fertility and the generation of life, as its name can be translated to "Mother Earth". To it is assigned the gift of distributing the seasons, fertilize the land and give life to living beings of the universe- this is Pachamama's modo. As the first Biological Restaurant in Lisbon, their food is made with all organic ingredients without pesticides and free range animals- everything is homemade. With a vegetarian and pescatarion menu only, Mushroom Risotto, Raw Vegetable Falafel and Shrim with Asian Vegetables are some examples of the food you'll find there.
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The Therapist
Located in Alcântara in Lx Factory, a creative center that apart from sheltering a set of companies and start ups, it also serves has stage for a diverse set of happenings related to fashion, publicity, communication, fine arts, architecture, music and, of course, food. With an industrial theme you'll feel like you're entering a universe where art rules all. The Therapist restaurant works as a therapeutic center and it divides in three areas, the Clinic, the School and the Food. At the Clinic they have practices like chinese medicine and bibliotherapy, in parthernership with Lx Factory's library- Livravria Ler Devagar; At the School they provide workshops and short courses that range from healthy food to time management and, at their Coffe Shop with a simplistic healthy, dairy free and no added sugars menu you'll be able to eat in and eat out in a healing environment.
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Local Chiado by Local- Your Healthy Kitchen
Feel like having a meal in a palace? Well your prayers were heard. Local- your healthy kitchen is located in Chiado Palace in Alecrim Street and is its purpose to serve tasty healthy food and to promote organic and sustainable eating. An innovative space that keeps in touch with healthy eating trends by stimulating the consumption of veggies and plant based proteins, althought always mantaning animal protein options, presenting lactose free, wheat free and vegetarian menus and by not using processed foods and refined sugars, in a Mediterrenean cuisine. Local- your healthy kitchen embraces diverse eating as a way of connection in a sophisticated space in the center of the city.
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Organic Caffe
If the decoration and the food weren't enough to make this space as cool as it is, it is actualy part of Palácio Estoril Hotel's spa, Banyan Tree Spa. Yes, you read it well. James's Bond hotel in "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service". Thats right, Palácio Estoril Hotel was background to the the sixth film of the James Bond saga and it is said to be the inspiration for the creation of the James Bond character itself, as the author Ian Fleming stayed at the hotel during the Second World War, a time where Estoril was know to harbor a lot of spies. However, lets put the guns and the gadgets down and talk about what we came here to talk about- Organic Caffe. The food: gluten and dairy free meals, organic and free from, hormones, antibiotics and processed/engineered products and entirely designed by a naturopath. With all natural ingredients and the said ,trendy, super foods, their menu is composed by salads, juices, meat and fish dishes to vegan and vegetarian ones, or if you're not that hungry they also serve healthy snacks.
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