Lisbon & Setúbal Food Wine Tour

LISBON, ARRIVAL

Upon arrival, your private driver will welcome you and get you to your hotel. Relax.

EVENING LISBON’S FOOD TOUR

An unprecedented culinary effervescence has invaded the city of seven hills. The renovated taverns full of charm where you can taste the "petiscos" are joined by the new restaurants sponsored by a generation of chefs determined to reinvent Portuguese cuisine based on overflowing imagination and a unique mix of flavors. We propose a private food trail across the essential addresses of Lisbon’s culinary scene on a bar’s hoping intimate route. Let’s uncork some culinary unexpected delights strolling around the narrow streets of Lisbon.  You will hunt for culinary traditions and new flavors.  You’ll find layers of intrigue — along with a surprising food scene, old and new, from those country taverns to inventive young cosmopolitan chefs. Sample wonderful wines and local produce, hearty cod fritters or savory pastries, you’ll love them all.

Lisbon’s selection of hotels is overwhelming; we’ll find the one that better suits you.

DISCOVER LISBON'S CHARMS

You will dream of returning to its inexhaustible light, to the kindness of its neighbors, to the continuous surprise of its streets, in which so quickly you enter the silence of the low-built houses and the clothes hanging as you find local small century-old boutiques next to modern shops and innovative architectural landmarks. Would you like to enjoy a visit behind the scenes at the National Teatro de Maria II in Rossio Square? Are you an arts lover? We can organize a thirilling museums private tour. We will adapt the rest of the tour to your interest and time. We could assault the hill of the Castle, where the city was born in 1500 B.C. Stopping in several viewpoints and walking around the narrow and labyrinthine streets of Alfama district. Keep walking down and will find yourself in the lively heart of Lisbon, showing the post-18th century earthquake architecture, the noble commercial area of the city, with old traditional stores and bistros. 

Free afternoon-evening to enjoy the city on your own pace. We’ll assist you on your dinner arrangement.

SINTRA, THE FAIRYTALE TOWN

North of the Tagus lies a rugged, rocky coastline, surrounded by hills and farmland, palaces far from the world, and hidden cliffs and coves where the ocean hits hard all year round. Chosen as a refuge by kings and nobles for centuries, there are countless reasons to consider Sintra as the 'Vila Velha': it is the city of palaces, enchanted forests, where oaks and cedars seem to hide their faces in the mist, and the narrow and steep cobbled streets, which maintain their medieval air between craft shops and pastry shops that flood the air with the aroma of the typical queijadas. In the 19th century, Sintra was also home to wealthy burghers, romantic artists and enlightened intellectuals in need of inspiration. You will visit the National Palace.

CABO DA ROCA

Then taka a de tour to Cabo da Roca - the westernmost point of Continental Europe – admiring the impressive cliffs and waves. 

Time for lunch by Guincho Beach to try some of the seafood specialties, a cataplana should be on your bucket list. 

COLARES WINES

After lunch, let’s discover some of the most coveted and rare wines in the world, wines from the designation Colares. Despite its limited annual production (15.000 L/year), each bottle of this characteristic wine can last for decades. Ramisco grape pre-phylloxera vines, sand and wind are the three natural elements that define these wines. This is a unique opportunity to visit one of the historical wineries, in business since 1808.

Back to Lisbon, free evening; we will assist you with your dinner plans.

ÓBIDOS, THE LITERATURE & CHOCOLATE CITY

After breakfast your driver will take you North to enjoy the picturesque beauty of the historic village of Óbidos. Óbidos surprises with its perfectly preserved intramural castle, but also for its labyrinth of narrow streets adorned with Manueline porticoes, fragrant (and gigantic) bougainvillea and authentic Portuguese handicraft shops. Óbidos is also a Literary Village, registered in the Unesco Creative Cities network, as witnessed by its peculiar Livraria de Santiago, which occupies the old church of Sao Tiago, or The Literary Man, the largest literary hotel in the world. Óbidos hosts every year the Chocolate Festival and is also the birthplace of ginjinha, a liquor made with morello cherries, harvested in western Portugal and fermented in brandy with sugar, water and cinnamon.

WINES FROM LISBON

After the visit of Óbidos, time to reach one of the Lisbon wine estates. Lisbon wine region spreads over 12,000 kilometers of vineyards, being Torres Vedras and Alenquer the main wine cities with an ancient wine culture inherited from the Roman times. The region has native white grapes such as arinto, fernão pires or vital; and red varieties such as touriga nacional, touriga franca, trincadeira and castelao, among others.

Enjoy a private tour at one of the top estates, learn about the wines characteristics and then make your taste buds dance with a lovely homemade lunch.

Finally, transfer to your hotel in Setúbal, time to unwind in the secluded peninsula.

SETÚBAL AND ITS MUSCAT

Explore the charms and wild landscapes of the Setúbal Peninsula. Start from the heights of the 12^th century castle in Palmela, then go down to Setúbal to stroll around its lovely and lively food market, and follow the way across green and blue colors, the lush forest and the ocean magically interconnect.

This region is famous for its Moscatel de Setúbal dessert wine. Apart from these sweet wines they produce magnificent dry wines, that have gained national and international recognition. Are you ready for a nature-cultural-wine experience? We will get you to one of our preferred wineries, their wines are so unique and good. Enjoy lunch in at the winery.

AZEITÃO & SESIMBRA

After lunch, continue to explore other corners, Azeitão – famous for its creamy cheeses - and Sesimbra, to take in its medieval Moorish castle and relax with a cup of coffee as you admire the turquoise water before returning to your hotel.

TIP: choco frito (fried cuttle fish) and the oysters from the Sado estuary are a must in Setúbal.

ARRÁBIDA NATURAL PARK

For active travelers, in this Atlantic coastal area we find the Parque Natural da Arrábida. Board a classic jeep cabrio 4x4 in the most secret and inhospitable ways inside Arrábida Natural Park to stop at some of the most beautiful viewpoints.

Galapinhos beach was considered in 2017 the most beautiful beach of Europe by European best destinations, we’ll see Santa Margarida cave, pre historic roman ruins located in Creiro and you will be passing by the highest limestone cliff of Europe (Serra do Risco).

Would you like biking or hiking, let us organize it. Are you a horse ride, we can make it too. Or you can opt for sailing and enjoying lunch on board, or you can decide to spend the day on a desert beach only reachable by boat, and we’ll take you there!

Back to Casa Palmela, enjoy a calm evening.

END OF JOURNEY

Today, private transfer to Lisbon airport, or to your next destination in case you decide to extend your trip.