We'd add
Our runner-upCaldo verde
Caldo verde, the soup of potato and finely cut kale. The house pairs it with the bread, and so would we.
- The 1972 recipe

AI-made picture of the dish, not a house photo
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstPão com chouriço, bread baked around slices of chouriço, Portuguese pork sausage, out of the wood oven. The house's own, and the one we'd order.
Portuguese · pão com chouriço · wood oven · Santos, Lisbon
Av. 24 de Julho 54, 1200-657 Lisboa
A Lisbon bakery named for the merenda, the Portuguese afternoon snack, that has made one bread its own. Everything follows its original recipe from the early seventies.
The proof, in the house's own words
We'd add
Our runner-upCaldo verde, the soup of potato and finely cut kale. The house pairs it with the bread, and so would we.
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