Cervejaria Ramiro: The Most Incredible Seafood Feast in Lisbon, Portugal

I’ve seen a few travel food shows on Lisbon, and this legendary marisqueira has been featured on every single one of them. It almost felt like a rite of passage for any seafood-obsessed traveler visiting this city.

Open for over sixty years, Cervejaria Ramiro is a Lisbon institution. It’s a family-run restaurant known for serving some of the city’s very best seafood in a pleasant but unpretentious environment. The space is loud and convivial, not the type of place where you’re expected to gingerly shell your prawns with a knife and fork. Here, you’re free to enjoy them with your hands and wash it all down with an ice-cold pint of ale. Feel like sucking the fat out those shrimp heads? Go ahead! Everyone does.

We spent five weeks in Europe and had well over a hundred restaurants on our…