12 Postcards
Nestled in Lisbon’s Chiado area, Belcanto features a stylish ambiance while serving innovative Portuguese cuisine that impresses and delights.
"Experience Portuguese cuisine at the award-winning restaurant Belcanto." - Stacey Leasca Stacey Leasca Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel journalists. Her photos, videos, and words have appeare
"Bairro do Avillez is great, but Belcanto is José Avillez’s crown jewel. There are three different menus offered inside this elegant dining room that’s housed in an old monastery: two tastings and one à la carte, with dishes like lobster paired with white beans, marrow, and caviar, and razor clams with lupin bean ice shavings. Book a table in advance, and plan on leaving your afternoon or the rest of your evening free. This is a main-event kind of place you’ll want to tailor your day around. " - rita geraldes
"Lisbon's first Two MICHELIN Star restaurant, which is one of the flagships of Portuguese gastronomic culture around the world." - The MICHELIN Guide
"Belcanto boasts a superb location in the Bairro Alto (Chiado) district popular with tourists, on a corner close to a former convent damaged by the large earthquake that devastated the city in 1755. In his culinary empire’s showcase restaurant, chef José Avillez offers a modern à la carte and two extensive set menus (Evolução and Belcanto) offering a journey of gastronomic discovery in a dining room divided into different spaces, alongside a chef’s table in the kitchen. José Avillez’s dishes are influenced by Lisbon’s different light, its maritime shoreline and its distinct districts: in the words of this celebrated chef, “cooking is our very own fado, and our own form of expression”. Interestingly, the napkin provided for dessert is in the shape of a sleeve, recalling the way the chef once wiped his mouth on his sleeve as a child!" - Michelin Inspector
"Famous chef José Avillez owns a restaurant empire in town. With its two Michelin stars, his restaurant Belcanto, at the heart of the charming neighborhood of Chiado, is the most acclaimed fine dining venue in Lisbon. Here, the chef and his team serve modern Portuguese dishes a la carte or on two conceptual tasting menus (Classics and Evolution). Explore Portugal through his creative takes on tasty classics like suckling pig and lupini beans (a Portuguese obsession) with ajo blanco and horse mackerel." - Rafael Tonon, Miguel Pires
