Hotel York House Lisbon

New Spring/Summer Menu

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Soups

Fish soup €8,50

White almonds soup with pouched quail egg and smoked tunna €6,00

Appetizers

Lobster Risotto € 17,50

Sauteed scallops, leek fondant, caramelized pear and raspberry sauce € 13,50

Black spaghetti with prawns, clams and piquillo pepper € 10,50

Sauteed foie gras, asparagus and cheddar €13,50

Smoked meats and sausages from North to South Portugal € 7,50

Fried duck livers with iberian ham palmier €8,00

From the Sea

Codfish fillet in puff pastry served with its broth € 17,50

Grilled octopus with mashed potatoes and "chouriço", asparagus € 19,00

Sole fillets in an almond sauce and wild mushrooms €22,50

From the Earth

Free range chicken stew € 15,00

Duck breast on a citrus sauce, creamy baked potato and cauliflower, peas € 19,50

Iberian Pork fillets with clams and creamed spinach € 19,50

Lamb cutlets in a Mediterranean crust, served with wild mushrooms rice and tomato sauce € 17,50

York House Hamburger (thick rib 200gr) € 16,00

Honoring David Lopes Ramos

This section is in honor of our beloved David Lopes Ramos, a portuguese food critic that passed away recently. Here you can find typical Portuguese food, a different dish every month.

In May you can taste: "pataniscas" with codfish rice

Vat included

For more information or reservations contact us: Phone +351 21 396 24 35, Email, via Facebook or Twitter

Daily Market Menu - April 19th

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For today's lunch we recommend:

Pumpkin Soup

Bacalhau à Bráz

(a traditional portuguese dish made of cod with scrambled eggs and fried potatoes)

Crème Brûlée
Coffee or Tea
1 Glass of wine (white or red)

Price: €18,00 per person
For more information or reservations: Phone +351 21 396 24 35 or Email

Lisbon Fish & Flavours - April 15th

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Today you can enjoy:

Lobster Bisque

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Lamprey pie and remoulade

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Squid curry and Shimeji mushrooms

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Prawns gratin, gruyère crust

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Cannelés de Bordeaux

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WHERE: Pateo da Galé - Terreiro do Paço in Lisbon

Opening Hours:
April 8th to 16th: from 12pm to 12am
April 17th, Sunday; from 12pm to 4pm

Tickets:
1 entry: € 15,00
11 entries: € 135,00
1 weekend: € 25,00
2 weekends: € 45,00
1 week (from Monday to Sunday): € 60,00
Group entry (5 people): € 15,00

Free entrance for Children under 12 years old when accompanied by paying adults
Each entry includes a €5 tasting in a restaurant
On weekdays, at Lunch time, each entry includes 2 tastings of € 5,00 in a restaurant.
For additional restaurant tastings there will be an extra cost.

Lisbon Fish & Flavours - April 13rd

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Our suggestions for today at Lisbon Fish and Flavours

Fish soup "bouillabaisse" style

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Prawns with garlic and avocado terrine

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Clams Bulhão Pato Style

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Cod Fish fillet in puff pastry

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"beurre blanc" Grouper

You can visit us from 12:00 pm to 12:00 am

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Lisbon Fish & Flavours - April 11th

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We have with us today a very special guest, Chef Nuno Barros from 2780 Taberna, a restaurant near Lisbon that aims to re-invent the historical popular recipes by applying all the new cooking techniques.

You can visit us at Lisbon Fish and Flavours from 12:00 pm to 12:00 am for a tasting of:

Monkfish cheeks, pickles and fruit puree
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Tuna, estopeta (*), acarajé(**) and gazpacho
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Octopus stew, sweet potato from Aljezur and coconut tapioca
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Pompano fillet, served with puree crab and stew broth
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Caramelized Pineapple (from Azores) , coconut cream and rum & mint mousse

(*) Estopeta: Mix of tomatoes, onions, green pepper
(**) Acarajé: black-eye-peas fritters

Lisbon Fish & Flavours - April 10th

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Today you can enjoy:

Lobster Bisque

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Lamprey pie and remoulade

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Spaghetti with prawns and clams

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Cod Fish fillet in puff pastry

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Mussels, courgette and feta

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WHERE: Pateo da Galé - Terreiro do Paço in Lisbon

Opening Hours:
April 7th, Monday : from 6pm to 12am
April 8th to 16th: from 12pm to 12am
April 17th, Sunday; from 12pm to 4pm

Tickets:
1 entry: € 15,00
11 entries: € 135,00
1 weekend: € 25,00
2 weekends: € 45,00
1 week (from Monday to Sunday): € 60,00
Group entry (5 people): € 15,00

Free entrance for Children under 12 years old when accompanied by paying adults
Each entry includes a €5 tasting in a restaurant
On weekdays, at Lunch time, each entry includes 2 tastings of € 5,00 in a restaurant.
For additional restaurant tastings there will be an extra cost.

Salmon and Tartare at Lisbon Fish & Flavours

2011-04-08T15:11:00.000+01:00

Marinated salmon stuffed with apple bravo esmolfe cooked in citrus, wrapped in vodka

Two fish tartare with mango puree and arugula

Our suggestions from our Lisbon Fish & Flavours menu.

Today's special guests are: Chef Paulo Matos and Sous-Chef Pedro Cardoso from Hotel Aquapura Douro Valley

Lisbon Fish & Flavours - Address: Pateo Gale, Terreiro Paço, Lisbon

Lisbon Fish and Flavours - Food Festival

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Lisbon Fish and Flavours Food Festival has opened it's doors today at 6pm. We leave you with two of our suggestions for the night:

Cod Fish fillet in puff pastry, served with sprouts

Silver smelt Noelia Style

Lisbon Fish and Flavours - This week menu

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Our menus for the first days of Lisbon Fish and Flavours.

Thursday - April 7th - from 6pm to 12am

Shad fish marinated served with fish eggs açorda (*) and peas in lemon juice

Cod Fish fillet in puff pastry, served with sprouts

Silver smelt Noelia Style

Valrhona Chocolate Mousse

Cannelés de Bordeaux

(*) Açorda is a typical Portuguese dish made with mashed bread, garlic, olive oil, coriander, broth and eggs.

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Friday - April 8th - from 12pm to 12am

With special guests: Chef Paulo Matos and Sous-Chef Pedro Cardoso from Hotel Aquapura Douro Valley

Marinated salmon stuffed with apple bravo esmolfe cooked in citrus, wrapped in vodka

Codfish mini brioche served with quince marmalade and red onion

Two fish tartare with mango puree and arugula

Sardine Bôla(*)

Valrhona Chocolate Mousse

Cannelés de Bordeaux

(*) portuguese typical brioche

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Saturday - April 9th - from 12pm to 12am

Fish Stew in flan

Cuttlefish served with Aljezur sweet potato and baby broad beans

Lobster broth with cockles and ratatouille

Codfish fillet served with creamed corn bread, sprouts and black-eyed peas

Valrhona Chocolate Mousse

Cannelés de Bordeaux

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Lisbon Fish and Flavours - April 2011

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From 7th to 17th April, Restaurant York House will be present at Lisbon Fish and Flavours Event with it's own restaurant, menus will be revealed shortly.

If you are visiting Lisbon on these dates this is a Must Go event. Specially for those enchanted with food and Wine.

WHERE: Pateo da Galé - Terreiro do Paço in Lisbon

Opening Hours:
April 7th, Monday : from 6pm to 12am
April 8th to 16th: from 12pm to 12am
April 17th, Sunday; from 12pm to 4pm

Tickets:
1 entry: € 15,00
11 entries: € 135,00
1 weekend: € 25,00
2 weekends: € 45,00
1 week (from Monday to Sunday): € 60,00
Group entry (5 people): € 15,00

Free entrance for Children under 12 years old when accompanied by paying adults
Each entry includes a €5 tasting in a restaurant
On weekdays, at Lunch time, each entry includes 2 tastings of € 5,00 in a restaurant.
For additional restaurant tastings there will be an extra cost.

For more information about the event take a look at their site at Lisbon Fish and Flavours.

Daily Market Menu - March 25th

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Lunch Daily Market Menu - Friday - March 25th

Sauteed boletus
Rabbit in mustard sauce
Canelés Bordeaux
Coffee or Tea
1 Glass of wine (white or red)

Price: €18,00 per person

For more information or reservations: Phone +351 21 396 24 35 or Email

Daily Market Menu - March 23rd

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Lunch Daily Market Menu - March 23rd

Mussels Belgium style
Fried Hake served with tomato rice
Crème Brûlée
Coffee or Tea
1 Glass of wine (white or red)

Price: €18,00 per person

For more information or reservations: Phone +351 21 396 24 35 or Email

Daily Market Menu - March 22nd

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Lunch Daily Market Menu - March 22nd

King prawns al ajillo
Grilled liver with mashed potato and snow peas
Canneles de Bordeaux
Coffee or Tea
1 Glass of wine (white or red)

Price: €18,00 per person

For more information or reservations: Phone +351 21 396 24 35 or Email

Daily Market Menu

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From Tuesday to Friday, at lunch time you can now enjoy our Daily Market Menu, with an appetizer, main course, dessert, coffee or tea and one glass of wine (White of Red from a selection of Jose Maria Fonseca wines) at € 18,00 per person.

For this Wednesday, 16th February 2011 the Daily Market Menu is

Fried duck livers with iberian ham palmier

Eel Stew ("Ensopado")

Cream Caramel

Coffee or Tea

1 glass wine (white or red from a selection of Jose Maria Fonseca wines)

Price: €18,00 per person

For more information or bookings please call + 351 21 396 24 35 or Email us.

Guess the Wine

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We offer a fun and educational challenge, and may result in the offer of the wine you choose for your meal.

By the simple act of submitting yourself to this game, you are granted with an immediate 10% discount on the price chart for that bottle of wine.

How to participate: 
Tell the head waiter that you want to enter the game “Guess the Wine”, and make your boundaries, choose:
1 - White wine or red wine
2 - Maximum amount you are willing to spend on wine  

The wine then it’s served at your table in a decanter, and you have to challenge yourself to guess what you are drinking. The wine characteristics are valued as follow:  
- Region (10% discount) 
- Casta (20% discount) 
- Production Year (30% discount) 
- Producer (20% discount) 
- Wine Name (10% discount)  

The more correct and accurate your answers are, the biggest is the discount you get. If you happen to hit all the answers, then the wine is free.  

Enjoy!

Things to do in Lisbon for Free

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Besides the gardens, river promenade and belvederes, there is actually other very interesting things you can do and visit in Lisbon for Free. We have walked around the city and spotted these ones:

National Ancient Art Museum
Just a few steps from York House this great Museum is free on Sundays from 10am to 2pm
The National Ancient Art Museum celebrates the Portuguese Routes and sailings around the world; you can jump into Japan, China, India and Africa without leaving the building.
It’s Collection has more that 44 thousand art pieces, dated from 12th to the 19th century, showing art in so many forms… painting, sculpture, silverware, ceramics, textiles, furniture, prints and drawings.

National Coach Museum
Free on Sundays and bank holidays – from 10am to 2pm
A collection that highlights the Portuguese Royal House’s gala vehicles, harnesses and other accessories of cavalry, musical instruments of the Royal Band, uniforms, weapons and symbolic instruments of the Royal House’s staff

Orient Museum
Free entrance on Fridays from 6:00pm to 9:30pm
A diversified cultural heritage of historical, artistic, documental, ethnographic and anthropologic interest dealing not only with popular culture and Oriental religions but also the most varied aspects of the Portuguese presence in Asia throughout over five centuries.

Berardo Collection Museum
Free entrance
Berardo Collection Museum offers an overview, a panorama of the creation of plastic arts in the twentieth century and the beginning of the XXI century, particularly in European and American art. Reflecting all the richness of the history, styles, origins mediums and techniques of the works from the collection, and provides a journey through the modern and contemporary Portuguese artistic creation, focusing on its originality and the place it occupies on the international scene.

Fernando Pessoa House
Free Entrance
Opened in November 1993, the cultural centre was conceived by the Lisbon city Council as a tribute to the writer Fernando Pessoa and his memory; in the city he lived and the area in which he spent the last 15 years of his life, Campo de Ourique.

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What to do in Lisbon - October 2010

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Our selection of concerts and exhibitions for October is here...

Until 24 Oct
There she goes, beautiful and Safe - Scooters from João Seixas Collection
MUDE – Fashion and Design Museum
With this exhibition we will become more aware of the plurality and specific features of each scooter, gaining a better understanding this phenomenon that swept Europe and the United States. But it is undeniable that among scooters, the Vespa became so popular that it has almost become synonymous with it.

From 13 to 24 Oct
Cirque du Soleil – Saltimbanco
An abundance of joyful and colorful acrobatics in a metropolis.

14 Oct - 9:00pm
Fryderyk Chopin’s Complete Piano Works
Paying homage to Fryderyk Chopin’s life and work, whose birth bicentenary is in 2010, Artur Pizarro will feature throughout 2010/2011 Season nine recitals in the Small Auditorium –Eduardo Prado Coelho Room, performing the composer’s complete piano works.

From 14 Oct
Let’s Talk about Houses: between North and South Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Berardo Museum
The exhibition Let's talk about houses: Between North and South will be presented at the Museu Colecção Berardo. Occupying the entire floor of the Grand Hall (3000 m2), it will examine dwelling conditions and the new solutions found in the specific contexts of various regions around the world. With a broad span of commissioners, the exhibition is based around two emblematic experiments (the SAAL project and Alison and Peter Smithson’s House of the Future) in order to examine the meaning of the specificity of place, the modernist legacy, and new solutions to the question of dwelling.

16 Oct – 9:00pm
Schostakovich Ensemble… To Chopin
The concert ... to Chopin – in the year of composer’s bicentenary of birth – offers several intersections with composers strongly related to Chopin, like Schumann and Schostakovich.

From 28 to 31 Oct
Sleeping Beauty – Companhia Maior
Founder gesture of a new company composed by artists aged 60 years and older, coming from diverse fields of the artistic creation, Sleeping Beauty is a story about the passage of time, rebirth and second chances.

30 Oct – 9:00pm
Portuguese Chamber Orchestra
D Major is a dominant tonality in Beethoven and Brahms’ work. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra will be performed together with soloist Adrian Florescu, and in the second part, Brahms’ Symphony no. 2

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Short trip to Lisbon - Should I include a Museum?

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On a short trip to Lisbon, you may have not considered a visit to a Museum for lack of time. Your must see list is full of monuments, good spots to shoot the best city views, stroll Bairro Alto and Chiado just to name a few.
So with so many other things on your schedule you will probably cross out the Museum, and wait for the next trip to Lisbon.

But you might want to reconsider, the National Ancient Art Museum has thought on all the visitors with this problem, and has created the Guide For the Visitor in a Hurry (pdf), for those short in time and looking only for the highlights of it’s collection.

And if your trip to Lisbon is scheduled for a weekend - a big win - on Sunday morning from 10am to 2pm the admission is free.

What you can see at National Ancient Art Museum
The National Ancient Art Museum celebrates the Portuguese Routes and sailings around the world; you can jump into Japan, China, India and Africa without leaving the building.
It’s Collection has more that 44 thousand art pieces, dated from 12th to the 19th century, showing art in so many forms… painting, sculpture, silverware, ceramics, textiles, furniture, prints and drawings.

They let you take a sneak peek of the inside with a Virtual Tour to the Museum.
It’s well worth the visit!

Open Times
Tuesday – 2pm to 6pm
Wednesday to Sunday – 10am to 6pm
Free admission on Sundays and Public Holidays until 2pm

Closed on Mondays, Easter Sunday, New Year’s Day, May 1st and December 25th.

The Museum is located just a few steps from Hotel York House in Lisbon, at Rua das Janelas Verdes.

Shin of Beef (Bone in) from York House Lisbon Winter Menu

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Helenka Bednar, Editor at I Love My Grub asked this morning for a Shin of Beef recipe, we are very pleased to share our recipe with all of you.

This recipe featured our last Winter Menu, and will probably return next winter too.

Shin of Beef (Bone in) from York House Lisbon
Serves 4

Ingredients:
1,2Kg Shin of Beef (Bone in) – (300gr per person)
2 carrots
2 onions
1 Table spoon of tomato
salt and pepper
½ Lt Water
½ Lt White wine
12 capers (if you don’t like capers use olives instead)
6 table spoons of olive oil

Cut the Shin Beef into slices of 4 to 6 cm each, pass them into flour.
In a skillet heat the olive oil, insert the beef and let brown for 3 to 4 minutes each side.

In an oven tray, mix the water, wine, season with salt and pepper, add tomato, carrots cut in little cubes, and chopped onions. To give more flavour add a herb bouquet made with parsley, bay leaves and thyme. Bring to boil.

When the mixture is boiling remove it from heat, stir well, place the beef and bring to a pre-heated oven (around 250ºC) without covering it, let it cook for around 1 ½ to 2 hours.

5 minutes before is ready add the capers.

Serve with risotto or with spaghetti cooked “al dente”.

Visit Lisbon in Photos

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Every day someone visits Lisbon and leave us with great photos about our dear city, we have been collecting some of the best photos on our FlickR favourites.

We invite you to see it and fall in love with our Lisbon.

If you have your own Lisbon photos in FlickR let us know, we would be so glad to add them into our selection.

Visit Lisbon in August

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Every year when we hit August Lisbon has less traffic and less people, this is the favourite month for locals to go on holidays and the city stays quite empty. If you hate crowded places, this IS the month to tour Lisbon. We can actually say that is low season in Lisbon just in the peak of the Summer.

In addition to that much appreciated detail, you can also count with free entertainment from Jazz on Thursdays nights at CCB in Belem area to the overwhelming options that Oceans Festival brings in, take a look at what you can see and do for free:

6th and 7th August
10pm – Full Circle – at Praça do Comércio, Lisbon downtown
Live music, fire, fireworks and special effects to tell a story of change, taking you on a journey through the seasons

8th August
10pm – Fado performance by Maria do Ceo (at Praça Municipio near Lisbon City Hall)

9th August
10pm – Fado performance by Helder Moutinho (at Praça Municipio near Lisbon City Hall)

10th and 11th August
10pm – Street Theatre : Theatron – at Parque das Nações
An incredible performance displayed vertically, along a “wall” made with scaffolding.
Theatron uses technological, multimedia and fireworks equipment, just as easily as it “invents” scenario machines and a whole “sustainable” and “recovered” scenography, thus creating environments that can be “beautiful and pacifying” but suddenly revert to chaotic and disturbing.

12th August
6pm – Museums by night
10pm – Fado performance by Raquel Tavares (at Praça Municipio near Lisbon City Hall)

13th August
10pm – Fado performance by Kátia Guerreiro (at Praça Municipio near Lisbon City Hall)
10pm – Street Theatre : Pi-leau – at Parque das Nações
Is street theatre that literally moves the audience. Actors and mobile objects move through and with the crowd. Like the sea people find their way around the emerging obstacles. A unique experience!

For the complete program see Oceans Festival Lisbon 2010.

During the day you can just stroll around and visit the historic neighborhoods of Belem, Bairro Alto, Chiado and Castelo, appreciating the views and gardens. These wonderful Lisbon photos will make you fall in Love with our city.

When passing by Chiado don’t forget to stop by the new Ice Cream store Santini and enjoy one of the best Ice Creams in Lisbon.

Are you ready to pack? We are for sure ready to welcome you at Hotel York House. For this season our rooms are starting at €80/per night maybe this is another good reason to Visit Lisbon in August.