Jul 3, 2025
Perfect tour for a foodie! - This tour was the highlight of our time in Lisbon. Andre our tour guide did a fantastic job with restaurant selection and the flow of the tour. He was very knowledgeable about the sites amd history of Lisbon we visited on our tour.
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Jun 17, 2025
Great food, tons of fun and wonderful guides! - Wonderful tour of the city, culture and food with our guide Celia. She was amazing and adapted the tour to the needs of our group. We absolutely cannot speak more highly of this tour and their other tours in general.
Highlights include deep connection between culture and food with site seeing integrated into the experience.
The food was amazing, wine wonderful and overall an experience I highly recommend. You visit places you would never find and meet the coolest people!
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Jun 10, 2025
Two great days with Célia! Nice combination of food and history - We really enjoyed our time with Célia. She fit right in to our private group of six friends. She took us to interesting places which allowed us to taste most of the special Portuguese dishes I had read about. She was very good at mixing the history and sights of the area in between the food tasting. We really enjoyed her expertise and her company. Another good experience with Backstreets for us!
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Jun 4, 2025
Hidden Flavors Revealed - This was not just a culinary tour. It was an immersion in the history, culture and cuisine of Portugal, brought to us by one of the best tour guides in the business. Gisela was not only knowledgeable, she was personable and fully invested in our experience. For six hours, we were transported to another world, walking the backstreets, learning the history, and savoring delicious Portuguese foods in ‘tascas’ (local taverns) that we would not have known existed. This is the way to see and experience Lisbon - in the eyes of a passionate local, who invited us to join her world for a few hours - and we are so thankful she did! Thank you, Gisela, Culinary Backstreets Lisbon and TripAdvisor for an amazing tour!
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May 31, 2025
The poster tour of Culinary Backsteets - Andre was fantastic. My wife and I had stayed in Graca a year ago, and I wished I had done this tour prior to that week. Andre took us to a great variety of the family run, super casual, but incredibly tasty tascas. I was surprised by the variety of food in these traditional places. Andre made you feel like a family member that he was showing around his neighborhood. That is a hilly area, but Andre's routes and timing, made it quite manageable for three people in their 70's. These were not fancy places, not a tablecloth in sight, but for anyone who wants to experience real Lisbon home cooking in casual neighborhood places, this would be perfect. When I think of the mission of Culinary Backstreets, this was it! Fantastic. I may come back to Lisbon just to do this tour again. And I would be happy to do it with Andre.
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May 30, 2025
Our 8th Culinary Backstreets Tour - all terrific and informative! - This was our most recent (8th) Culinary Backstreets Tour. We have now done all 4 Lisbon tours, 2 Oaxaca tours, 1 Marseille tour, and 1 Porto tour - obviously we love them! The local guides are always wonderful/interesting and the tours well planned and thought out. There is a lot of walking and a lot of eating involved, so wear comfortable shoes and do not eat beforehand! We learned much about local culture, history and food while also directly enjoying meals and speaking to the proprietors at unique local venues. This tour is the latest addition to Lisbon's options and was just as wonderful as all the others! André was terrific and even had a few card tricks up his sleeve to show us at the end!
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May 17, 2025
Marvelous afternoon touring delicious Tascas - Andre is an outstanding, knowledgeable, patient, foodie, that made our culinary-historic-tour of Lisbon an unforgettable experience.
Andre guided us through delicious Tascas tasting wonderful local dishes, away from the Lisbon beaten path.
We will do the same experience when we return to Lisbon.
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May 11, 2025
The local side of Lisbon explored - I can count on Culinary Backstreets to always take me somewhere unexpected and be guided by a passionate local who provides insights not only about the food, but also the culture and community that it is served in. We enjoyed lots of stops for delicious food and enjoyed the stories that were served with the dishes we ate. Andre was a delight and we enjoyed the friendly interaction between Andre and the businesses that we visited and of course the surprise addition of a little entertainment! Thanks for the magic Andre
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Apr 26, 2025
Excellent food tour!! WY to learn and enjoy Lisbon. - Kiki was an amazing, informative guide. The stops she choose were perfect. Her suggestions were spot on. I could not mor highly recommend her.
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Apr 19, 2025
Food Tour in Mouraria and Graca - The selection of food stops was excellent. The information provided when walking through the neighborhoods was excellent. Andre was very kind and entertaining with his card tricks !
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