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Couvada de Bacalhau à Pereira da Laurentina

  • TechniqueDemolha

Couvada, a thick steak of salt cod soaked in the house's own demolha, the long desalting, with olive oil, greens and Cova da Beira potatoes. The house speciality, and our main.

Laurentina

Portuguese · bacalhau · traditional · Avenidas Novas, Lisbon

Avenida Conde Valbom 71A, 1050-067 Lisboa

A bacalhau house, salt cod, in Avenidas Novas for more than four decades, handling every fish itself. Its couvada is cooked the way the founder's Beira Interior does it.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the couvada de bacalhau

Strong evidence
  • Craft

    Every cod handled by hand through the long soak that draws out the salt.

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  • Tradition

    The Beira Interior way, from the founder's home region, with the family name on it.

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  • Sourcing

    Potatoes from Cova da Beira, named on the card.

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  • Local choice

    The house speciality, in its own words.

    “Especialidade da casa”

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