A Cevicheria

What an incredible place — by far the best ceviche I’ve had in a while. The seafood is delicious and as fresh as it gets, the composition of flavors is creative but not gimmicky, and the presentation is stunning in its simplicity. My personal favorite was the ceviche with octopus, which couldn’t have been more tender. Although I didn’t try any of the desserts, they did look delicious and I will definitely sample them on my next visit.
This is a small space but the interior is top notch, showcasing a bright and crisp minimalism — think lots of white marble and a sharp contrast between the stunning blue floor tiles and the white subway tiles on the walls. The space is dominated, of course, by the massive (and highly photogenic) octopus sculpture by Joao Parrinha dangling from the ceiling. The whole operation is completely transparent. Dishes are meticulously prepared in front of you and much of the seafood is stored in plain sight behind the counter.
Not only is Chef Kiko a master of his craft, during my visit he was also an extremely forthcoming host who went out of his way to explain the food to me and ensure that I had a positive experience. I definitely recommend A Cevicheria, and will eat here at least one more time before leaving Lisbon.

There are pros and cons about a cevicheria, but considering there are more pros and the pros are more significant, I think they deserve a solid four stars. We went at 11pm (they close at midnight) so there was no wait. We sat at the bar and were of course given an unsolicited appetizer (you pay for it if you eat it). There are about four wines you can order by the glass, but most of the menu is bottles. We ordered a bottle of rosé but were confused because they don’t leave it at your table. They take it away and put it in a refrigerator then keep bringing it out when your glass is empty. Not a problem, just unusual to us. Although there are no cocktails on the menu, I did see people getting pisco sours. For food we ordered the mixed ceviche, which had octopus, white fish and shrimp and it was phenomenal. There was a chestnut paste that was so rich and unique and it really elevated the dish. Although the place wasn’t full at all, the one dish we ordered took a while to come out. I’ll assume/​hope that is because each one is so meticulously prepared? We ended up eating the appetizer which was toast and corn bread with a savory seaweed butter and yogurt dip. Not worth the 6 euro but we were still hungry. Overall my only complaints are the limited wine by the glass, high (ish) prices, and long wait time for food. Definitely worth a visit, but I would try to go off peak hours.

Les plats sont très beaux, de même pour la décoration épurée, ornée d’une grande pieuvre et il n’y a pas d’attente le midi contrairement au soir.
En revanche, côté nourriture, je n’ai pas du tout aimé, mais alors pas du tout (c’est sûrement une question de goût).
J’ai voulu prendre le menu dégustation avec 6 plats à partager à deux comme ça peut se faire d’après les nombreux avis Unilocal mais le serveur me l’a fortement déconseillé (il était plutôt insistant) car d’après lui les quantités né sont pas suffisantes pour deux. Nous avons donc pris chacun un plat et éventuellement en commander d’autre après. Mais non.
Après une attente interminable du bbq octopus, le serveur s’excuse pensant que l’on partageait le mixed ceviche et donc il attendait que l’on finisse. En fait personne né voulait finir le ceviche, qui était certes frais, mais nous avons eu du mal avec le goût et la texture. Une texture fondante et coagulée assez désagréable.
Le bbq octopus était très fondant, de même que pour les accompagnements (++ pour la purée) mais tout était beaucoup trop sucrée.
J’avais pas mal d’attente et au final je suis assez déçue de l’endroit. En revanche, si vous êtes dans le coin, passez absolument chez Bettina & Niccolo Corallo qui sont dans la même rue.
Attention, le pain et la sélection de beurre né sont pas gratuits !

My advice: Don’t bother wasting your time there.
They have no idea how to handle a wait list. They are not organized.
Yes, you can wait outside while having a drink.
— DRINK SUPER SUPER SWEET, WAAAAY to sweet. I tried mojitos, pisco and they all sucked AND OVERPRICED!
Food? I don’t know. I went to my 30^th birthday, they kept letting people in front of me… After 2 hours wait and freezing outside I left disappointed and DO NOT RECOMMEND.
I don’t understand why this restaurant has so many stars on Unilocal.The food could be perfect, but service and drinks definitely sucks.
Also, the pictures trick you, this place is small and feels like everyone is on top of each other.
Não recomendo, a pior experiencia em Lisboa, pessimos drinks, lugar minusculo, serviço horrivel! Esses 5 stars reviews devem ser da familia do dono.

A great spot in Lisbon. If I were a local I would definitely try it again as I saw many delicious items on the menu. Too bad we needed to move on to other interesting looking places in this vibrant yet decadent city. Ceviche variation is to die for and portions just right to satisfy my appetite and curiosity. Queue is justified, and you can ask the host where to quench your thirst while waiting. There are 2 great spots on the same street Bar Chinos and Terrazza.

I highly recommend this restaurant to everyone! Everything from the atmosphere to the food to the service was excellent. My friends and I ordered everything on the menu and each dish was better than the next.

This review isn’t for the food. It’s for the wait. Or that’s how it started. The staff have no idea how long it will take to seat anyone. So there are 5 tables in front of you translates into 90 f’ing minutes. A couple in their late thirties have been nursing the same centimetre of wine in one glass since their puberty while debating whether to sh@g or not while a dozen people have been standing outside in the cold. They could be honest and just say «you will be waiting at least an hour (or two hours) and then you can decide to go and eat somewhere else instead of standing up in the doorway or outside.
How it happened, as it happened or actually as I’m writing this at the restaurant, how it’s happening.
20:10 We arrived, we waited, we went on the list of people who wanted a table, we drank something outside.
21:15 We became p! ssed off at waiting and got irate with the manager together with a Portuguese lady who had been waiting for a table since Easter. The Portuguese lady was upset about the couple that had been toying with a near empty glass for an hour after finishing their meal while she was standing up, waiting for a table. The manager said that they had already asked the couple if they wanted anything else. In London they would have been given their bill, half an hour later they would have been asked politely to leave. Thirty minutes later they would have been told to leave and in some parts of East London, taken to the kitchen to be turned into a course for the next day’s diners. We concluded that the manager, you could tell he was the manager because he was wearing a check shirt instead of the official polo shirt needed to be fired rather a lot.
21:45 After waiting long enough to be eligible for a free pensioner bus pass, we were seated.
The house white is cheap and drinkable and to go with it, we went for the tasting menu:
22:00 Dish No1 was scallop with tapioca, which look like little pearls, salmon roe and gazpacho served in a ceramic oyster shell. It looked beautiful. It tasted, if it tasted like anything at all, like cold snot.
22:10 Dish No2 the «pure ceviche» was actually quite nice. The white fish tasted citrusy and the sweet potato chips were pleasant. There was some creamy nonsense with it that would have been better left in the kitchen, but the place was beginning to redeem itself.
22:20 Dish No3 was tuna ceviche which was flavoured with beetroot and garnished with something much like a popadom. This was alright, an interesting combination of flavours. Apparently the dish also included «Tiger milk». I couldn’t detect any personally but I have much respect for the person that milked the tiger.
22:25 A pregnant lady was given a chair in the doorway while waiting for a table. I felt sorry for her as her child will probably be christened before she eats here.
22:35 Our off piste, or in fact a la carte dishes of mixed ceviche and salmon ceviche arrived. These are both OK. I guess you just have to like sour, raw fish to appreciate them. I start to detect a theme forming.
22:50 Dish No4 barbecued octopus on mashed potato dyed black with squid ink. This is possibly the most pretentious dish I have ever eaten. It is the culinary equivalent of a Victoria Beckham labelled dress and similarly devoid of taste and class.
22:57 I spot a man wearing a Casio LCD watch style circa 1978 and my suspicions about this place being the most pretentious restaurant in the world are confirmed. I wonder idly if it may be the set in a production of The Emperor’s New Clothes.
23:05 Dish No5 white fish that has actually been cooked accompanied by quinoa and «oyster foam». This is a hot dish and the first of the evening that actually tastes like food. I like it and so does my girlfriend. I regret not just ordering this, but less so than I regret coming here in the first place. About 30 seconds ago I told the waiter I enjoyed this dish. He said that ceviche wasn’t the best way to «cook» and I agreed suggesting that they sell more cooked fish.
23:14 Dish No6 arrived. The dessert, a mouthful of chocolate mousse and some bready stuff.
I have never left a restaurant so disappointed.
They don’t take reservations, they don’t need to. My advice though is to walk past this place. If you see an empty table, pop in and try the food. I guess I just don’t get ceviche, the flavours are subtle, it seems just that bit too fussy for me, I don’t really get the hype about the place. It’s not worth waiting to eat here, not unless you have a mad addiction to ceviche. I’ve eaten meals I’ve enjoyed more in a thousand places and I’ve never waited as long to be seated. My advice? Come here at 11pm when the crowds have dissipated, alternatively and this is a better idea, go somewhere else. Preferably somewhere that cooks all their fish.

The tasting menu was out of this world. First three cold ceviche courses were the best seafood dishes I’ve had in the longest time. Small place, but the staff kept people moving without feeling rushed. Awesome décor, delicious food and amazing service.

Worse experience abroad ever. The service is terrible. It is the only place I know that makes you wait for 2 hours, with your name on a list and is «not able» to give you update on the wait/​or approximately when you gonna actually eat something. But of course they make you take some drinks outside in the cold so they can charge you even more while waiting.

A restaurant that specializes in ceviche? Yes, it is great! And the concept clearly works as it was packed when we were there late night. It is located right on one of the main drags in Lisbon and has amazing décor, including a huge octopus hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the restaurant. It is light and bright. The service was good and they were definitely accommodating.
Now onto the food. I would say that despite having great ceviche, the steak tartare tacos were my favorite. They are on the medium size wise, and so I originally only ordered one. But after tasting it, I had to have another. The flavor was bursting at the seams and the bland shell was the perfect compliment. I have never had anything like it. A trip for the taste buds!

Wow, I mean wow!
Let me set the scene for you, the reader of my most amazing review: I’m doing my own version of «The Layover» in Lisbon. I’ve got 24 hours before I board a plane bound for the great north. I land is Lisbon and 6:40pm and I want to have a truly exceptional experience with my first time in this grand city. I look on the Unilocal,finder of great experiences far and wide, and find this place. A quick stop at the Airbnb and I’m on my way back for a Thursday night meal.
We sit immediately, a table for 2. There’s a set menu for 35 € that has 6 courses and its calling my name. Me and my dining partner both order it.
The first course is up and it’s two small glass jars, one a butter infused with squid ink, the other a paté made of tomato, ricotta, and I forget what else. I order a pisco sour. Delicious and incredible feelings ensue.
Over the next hour and half the course blow by, I’m experiencing a flood of emotions with every additional delicious fish course. A quinoa risotto with oyster foam and white fish is memorable for its creativity, fantastic texture and complexity! The croquette is memorable in that it was my least favorite but still a delicious dish. The dessert was incredible, a real treat.
This place leaves me with feelings of joy, for a 24 hour layover it was truly exceptional. I could not recommend this place to more. If you’re visiting Lisbon it’s a must!

Wow! The BEST ceviche we have ever had. Unbelievably fresh seafood and amazing desserts. The Ceviche Portugues and Quinoto do Mar were pure freshness — crisp and refreshing retaining the original natural flavors of the seafood. The Frutas em Texturas were set on passion fruit foam, and were perfect slices of melon, papaya, banana and mango. So light and flavorful, simply out of this world. Well done, Chef Kiko.

Quite amazing! You know the seafood is fresh when you see the lobster on display trying to make an escape!
We came here for a quick snack before dinner, my girlfriend and could only fit it in this way! Ordered the tasting menu to share, and was really blown away by the ceviche. The other dishes were all very unique as well, but I would definitely recommend anyone in the mood for good ceviche to just order it a la carte off the menu! Would definitely come back if I were in Lisbon! One of the best meals during my trip

Ceviches are really good. The desserts too. I really enjoyed the food there.
But something went wrong at the end, they gave us a check with an additional cost of 5 € for the couverts that we did not even have on the table.
It is bad that restaurants try to charge more people who do not speak portuguese.
So a place who probably could deserve 5 stars, but because they try to add stuffs that you don’t even eat, cannot be rated over 2.

This place is awesome if you’re into fish ceviche served tapas style.
they offer many ceviche from the freshest fish you’ll ever have. The chefs prepare your dish in front of the bar, so be sure to grab a stool up front.
this place was jammed packed the four times we went there. (yes, we went four times, it’s that good)
everything is for sharing, so order lots of dishes and enjoy a cup of wine with your meal.
lunch time was super busy (they open at 12:30pm) so be sure to arrive right when it opens.
hope you like this place:)

Great atmosphere, awesome and fresh seafood. Best thing on the menu was actually the steak tartare taco — we even had one for dessert! And then we caved and had dessert… Which was also excellent — pop rocks pretending to be chocolate crispies!

Chef Kiko is an excellent master of mixing sour, sweet, salty with soft and crispy textures. The results is phenomenal and every course I’ve enjoyed so far (they are now 9) has been close to impeccable. And it starts already with the corn bread with squid inc butter and ends with chocolate dessert with a hint of coriander.
Favorite items include all fish ceviches on the menu, with the cod with crispy pork skin and salmon ceviche as my top two. Service is attentive, quirky, and with passion. For one of our courses I said (obviously slightly too loud) that it would be easier to it with a work — five seconds later the waiter had overheard me and was passing me one.
So far I’ve visited two times and next time I will be in town, I will make my way over here and wait in line for one of those tables by the bar. Regardless of the price, this is as good as it gets. Enjoy it while you can afford it!

Other Unilocal reviews plus the fact that I love Ceviché led me to this place while on holiday in Lisbon. Let me tell you this place does not disappoint. I had the shrimp gazpacho and the pure Ceviché, which were both excellent. The silky sweet potato mousse in the Ceviché were a wonderful textural and taste sensation. I also had the quinoa brûlée with guava foam dessert, and while not my favorite thing I ate here, it was also innovative and interesting.
Combine the food with an upscale ambience and solid service, and we have a winner on an international scale.

4 estrelas pelo conceito, pela simplicidade das receitas (respeitando sempre a proteína, inovando nos condimentos) e pela equipa. A 5ª Estrela vai directamente para o Kiko, porque a sua cozinha não esquece as raízes. Que melhor companhia poderíamos desejar para o Talho? Recomendo os cheviches de atum e polvo, e o gaspacho. É uma blasfémia, mas não deixem de provar os croquetes de pato. Preços algo picantes…

This place was recommended by the hotel concierge as Lisbon new up and coming restaurant and it is indeed a gem. Great atmosphere and décor. Mouth watering and creative ceviches. This place is always packed and wait list can be long so I would recommend to go there early (although there was still an hour of wait time at 8 pm on a Friday). Good thing is that there is a small bar area outside of the restaurant where you can order fantastic pisco sours while waiting for your spot. I highly recommend the tuna ceviche, Portuguese ceviche, purée ceviche and the octopus served with warm quinoa.

This place is the definition of a boutique restaurant. It is a small charming restaurant. The decoration is perfect.
The service is really friendly and attentive. Em each time they serve something they explain what is in it.
The concept is simple: you should order it all to share, because it is more fun. Like this you can try more dishes. Every dish was better than the last one. I highly recommend to order the degustation menu for EUR 35.00 it is value for money! Also you cannot leave without ordering their Pisco Sour. Awesome!!!

De la vraie cuisine créative à Lisbonne qui n’est pas sans rappeler certains restaurants parisiens. Deux possibilités s’offrent à vous: la carte avec des plats autour de 13 euros et des desserts 6 euros, ou la formule 6 plats (incluant un gaspacho et un dessert) à 35 euros. Attention un plat n’est pas très copieux et correspond à une entrée. Prudents, nous avons testé chacun un plat pour évaluer le lieu. C’est vraiment très bon même si cela reste cher par rapport à la quantité d’où la perte de la cinquième étoile. Les croustillants de canards étaient délicieux et fondants et le riz les accompagnant d’une texture impeccable et un assaisonnement recherché. Le poulpe au quinquina accompagné de jambon de pays tiédi était très savoureux.

OMG! OMG! OMG! Seafood so good that you almost pass out with the first bite. This chic cevicheria served up possibly the best meal that I have had during my entire stay in Lisbon. And with that in mind, devoted foodie, you want to get here early because this baby’s seats are a sought after commodity.
I really think this places serves up Michelin star food at reasonable prices. I ordered a dish that was basically an octopus risotto but it was so much more in its execution and perfection. A marriage of buttery octopus with the creaminess of the risotto, this dish literally made my head spin. The mind blowing flavor of this dish was only matched by the shear mastery of this restaurant’s chefs, each ceviche samurai in their skill and artistry.
I tell you that this should be your first stop in Lisbon, for you won’t regret it. Just look for the giant octopus above the bar and you’ll know that you’re in the right place.