We'd add
Our runner-upBolo de Arroz
Bolo de arroz, a rice-flour cake baked in a paper wrap, which the house calls its ex-libris, its own signature. There all year.
- The house's signature
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstBolo-Rei
The bolo-rei, a ring of sweet bread with crystallised fruit, to the recipe the house says it brought to Portugal. A Christmas-season bake, from mid-autumn to Epiphany.
Confeitaria Nacional
Portuguese · confeitaria (pastry house) · bolo-rei · Baixa, Lisbon
Praça da Figueira 18B, 1100-241 Lisboa
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A Baixa pastry house since the early nineteenth century, still with the Castanheiro family; the founder's son brought the bolo-rei, the king cake, from France. Its recipe is a secret only two people know.
The proof, in the house's own words
Why the bolo-rei
Tradition
The house says it introduced the king cake to Portugal, and has never changed the recipe.
“Confeitaria Nacional is proud to have introduced Bolo Rei in Portugal”
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