Lisboa Delicatessen

It’s got all the Portuguese essentials. Even bacalhau, pão alentejano and a shelf full of Cerelac (yes, Cerelac). Most importantly it’s cheap and they sell good portuguese wine. They should sort the pricing out, tho, I always have to ask what the prices are when I go there. Overall it has a really nice variety of portuguese stuff. 5*

Great deli. It is always busy. The best place I know in London for Parma Ham. It retains a feel of Lisbon with all the staff being Portuguese. Love coming to this place.

My task was to organise a Portuguese Happy Hour at the office and so this was a rather obvious place to come to.
This shop sells what the name suggest: Portuguese delicatessen. The main attraction of the shop is definitely the deli counter, where they sell Portuguese cold cuts, cheeses and other specialities. In the back they have the «fish shop», where you can pick from various different kinds of dry-​cured fish. Also available here is shelves full of other Portuguese specialities, where you can find tins, biscuits, juices etc. Right by the cashier, there’s a shelf full of Portuguese alcohol: Port (obviously), a selection of red & white wines and more hard liquors.
The staff is very friendly here. I asked them to show me some typical Portuguese food items and they were very helpful. Confirming the typical stereotype that haunts Portuguese people, the pace at this shop is rather slow. They certainly are not the most efficient folks… but maybe that’s the reason why the invented such an amazing variety of specialities? Who knows…
Side note: the first time I walked into the shop, I was a bit surprised — to put it mildly — by the smell. At first I couldn’t place where exactly it came from, but it turns out to be originating in the fish corner…

a portobello market institution — coffee and a portuguese pastry while stolling through the stalls and shops. better know for their sweets — not so much the savories (the odd sandwich). the sweets are very sweet. try a selection of different pastries and share. tables are hard to come by so as you queue for counter service — someone needs to queue for a free table.
they have a shop of portuguese deli items directly across the street.

The attractive fronting of this shop belies the interior which is a funny-​smelling, understocked but still somehow comfortable and fun place. Selling Portuguese food — did you guess from its name? — this deli has all sorts of specialist ingredients, including dried cod — source of said funny smell perhaps. Not the sort of shop where you feel out of place if you’re not the nationality being catered for, it’s still a bit hard to imagine what exactly you would buy if not Portuguese, especially if you didn’t live nearby. They didn’t have my favourite thing from Portugal, sardine pâté, when I visited last.