Pics from a Cool (Non-Tiki) Bar in Lisbon, Portugal - Beyond Tiki

TC Tiki Chris Member London Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1542	TC Tiki Chris Posted posted on Wed, Apr 30, 2003 2:37 PM Here are a few images from the Pavilhao Chines - a refurbed turn-of-the-century, art deco cocktail bar in Lisbon's Bairro Alto: The following are images from their drinks menu: [ Edited by: Tiki Chris on 2003-04-30 14:37 ]
TW Trader Woody Member Tiki Manor, Forest of Bowland,UK Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2301	TW Trader Woody Posted posted on Wed, May 7, 2003 5:22 AM Wow, that looks like quite a place! Was it as decadent when you went there as the menus suggest? Doesn't look too busy...perhaps it really gets going in the evening. I keep hearing good things about Lisbon - that bar looks like another damn good reason to visit. Trader Woody
TC Tiki Chris Member London Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1542	TC Tiki Chris Posted posted on Thu, May 8, 2003 2:07 AM On 2003-05-07 05:22, Trader Woody wrote: Wow, that looks like quite a place! Was it as decadent when you went there as the menus suggest? Doesn't look too busy...perhaps it really gets going in the evening. I keep hearing good things about Lisbon - that bar looks like another damn good reason to visit. Trader Woody Pavilhao Chines: the pics of the bars are from the menu & a free postcard (thus, no people in them). it's not anywhere near as decadent as the menu's images suggest, but the place was definitely happening w/ young folks out to drink mass quantities & party hard, little old ladies out for a cup of tea, a few off-the-beaten-path tourists like em & me, & other not so easily categorised types (& somehow this mix worked beautifully). we were there earliy in the evening & got the impression that this place got really packed as the night progressed (as did practically all the bars & restaurants i can recall). Lisboa: trader woody, i think you'd love it there! maybe even more bars per person than madrid or barcelona! there may be tiki bars(which i suspect) but we did not come across any. it's an inexpensive place even compared to spain. there are a zillion really good restaurants & the whole city feels as though you've stepped back in time: to when the moors ruled the iberian penninsula, to the age of discovery, to the 1960's. a few bad things: one, it's dirt poor, at least compared to the rest of western europe. makeshift squatter camps extending for miles outside the city centre. zillions of abandoned buildings. but it does look like things are getting better. people tried to rip us off a few times. one guy at a pastry shop tried to make change w/out returning our e10, another cabbie took off in the wrong direction initially, stuff like that. but i must say that these folks were in the minority & i could recount many more times (in lisboa & portugal) when strangers seemed to be doing things out of kindness & nothing more. in general, you just have to be a little more savvy & on guard than you might otherwise be, that's all. & still even w/ the cab going the wrong way, it was still dirt cheap! oh yeah, there's dog shit EVERYWHERE! it's a lovely, laidback, fun city w/ some of the best nightlife i've seen anywhere. it's high on my "must return to" list.

TC

Tiki Chris Posted posted on Wed, Apr 30, 2003 2:37 PM

Here are a few images from the Pavilhao Chines - a refurbed turn-of-the-century, art deco cocktail bar in Lisbon's Bairro Alto:

The following are images from their drinks menu:

[ Edited by: Tiki Chris on 2003-04-30 14:37 ]

TW

Trader Woody Posted posted on Wed, May 7, 2003 5:22 AM

Wow, that looks like quite a place! Was it as decadent when you went there as the menus suggest? Doesn't look too busy...perhaps it really gets going in the evening.

I keep hearing good things about Lisbon - that bar looks like another damn good reason to visit.

Trader Woody

TC

Tiki Chris Posted posted on Thu, May 8, 2003 2:07 AM

On 2003-05-07 05:22, Trader Woody wrote:
Wow, that looks like quite a place! Was it as decadent when you went there as the menus suggest? Doesn't look too busy...perhaps it really gets going in the evening.

I keep hearing good things about Lisbon - that bar looks like another damn good reason to visit.

Trader Woody

Pavilhao Chines: the pics of the bars are from the menu & a free postcard (thus, no people in them). it's not anywhere near as decadent as the menu's images suggest, but the place was definitely happening w/ young folks out to drink mass quantities & party hard, little old ladies out for a cup of tea, a few off-the-beaten-path tourists like em & me, & other not so easily categorised types (& somehow this mix worked beautifully). we were there earliy in the evening & got the impression that this place got really packed as the night progressed (as did practically all the bars & restaurants i can recall).

Lisboa:

trader woody, i think you'd love it there! maybe even more bars per person than madrid or barcelona! there may be tiki bars(which i suspect) but we did not come across any.

it's an inexpensive place even compared to spain. there are a zillion really good restaurants & the whole city feels as though you've stepped back in time: to when the moors ruled the iberian penninsula, to the age of discovery, to the 1960's.

a few bad things:

one, it's dirt poor, at least compared to the rest of western europe. makeshift squatter camps extending for miles outside the city centre. zillions of abandoned buildings. but it does look like things are getting better.

people tried to rip us off a few times. one guy at a pastry shop tried to make change w/out returning our e10, another cabbie took off in the wrong direction initially, stuff like that. but i must say that these folks were in the minority & i could recount many more times (in lisboa & portugal) when strangers seemed to be doing things out of kindness & nothing more. in general, you just have to be a little more savvy & on guard than you might otherwise be, that's all. & still even w/ the cab going the wrong way, it was still dirt cheap!

oh yeah, there's dog shit EVERYWHERE!

it's a lovely, laidback, fun city w/ some of the best nightlife i've seen anywhere. it's high on my "must return to" list.