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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstBife à Café de São Bento
- TechniqueHand-cut
Beef fillet in the house cream sauce, with hand-cut chips. Our main, and the house's signature.
Also on our table
- And a fried egg on top if you like
Café de São Bento
Portuguese · steakhouse · café classic · São Bento, Lisbon
Rua de São Bento 212, 1200-821 Lisboa
- Food + wine
The original São Bento steak café, serving one steak in a cream sauce in the old Lisbon café tradition. Its menu says the recipe hasn't changed in over forty years.
The proof, in the house's own words
Why the bife
Tradition
Modelled on the bife à Marrare, the nineteenth-century Lisbon steak, and unchanged in four decades.
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