The most common items you'll find in a
Walking around Lisbon, particularly in the city centre and touristic areas, you'll see cafés advertising full cooked breakfast options, featuring pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausages and more.
Typical Lunch in Portugal (12 p.m. to 2 p.m.)
These menus usually include a soup, prato do dia (dish of the day), dessert, and a coffee. If they're really in a rush, they'll order something quick at the counter like a soup and a bifana (pork sandwich).
Some of the most famous Portuguese dishes include piri piri chicken, francesinha, bacalhau, and pastel de nata. Portugal is also quite famous for its wines.
In Portugal, restaurants open for lunch starting at 12:00 p.m. or 12:30 p.m. but don't usually fill up until around 1:00 p.m. Dinner is most commonly taken at 9:00 p.m. or 9:30 p.m., but restaurants do open as early as 7:00 p.m.
#9 Bedtime
Even small kids go to bed the earliest around 9 PM because Portuguese usually have dinner around 8 PM or later. In Poland, bedtime is around 7–8 PM. People there start work at 8 AM and breakfast is a substantial meal so usually they get up around 6.30 AM.
The most common items you'll find in a Portuguese breakfast are: bread, sliced cheese, sliced ham, bread, jam, and a milky coffee. Sometimes it's just toast without the ham and cheese, but the common denominators are almost always bread and a milky coffee like a galão or a meia de leite.
Licor Beirão
Simply known as Beirão, this national drink of Portugal is one you don't want to miss! Possibly the most popular Portuguese liqueur on the market, this drink originated in the Beiras region and is an excellent option for those with a sweet tooth.
Together with pastel de nata, bacalhau is perhaps the most well-known dish in Portuguese cuisine. It's a Portuguese national dish and far and away the most commonly eaten type of fish in Portugal.
The most important meal of the day in Portugal is lunch. Portuguese love food and wine, in fact, Portuguese are the major consumers of wine in the world.
Vegetarian food in Portugal
Portuguese cuisine is tough on strict vegetarians and you'll be eating a lot of omelettes, chips, salads and pizzas. Nearly everywhere does a basic vegetable soup, though beware of the caldo verde – a kale, onion and potato broth – which usually comes with chouriço in.
"The siesta is the traditional daily sleep of the Southern region of Alentejo, in Portugal, known as sesta. It was adopted also by the Spanish and, through European influence, by Latin American countries and the Philippines."
In Europe, it's illegal to wash eggs and instead, farms vaccinate chickens against salmonella. With the cuticle intact, refrigeration could cause mildew growth and contamination.
The answer is almost always yes, as dinnertime in Portugal happens between 9pm and 10pm on average. This is later than the European average, and only rivalled by Spaniards who usually have dinner between 9:30 and 10:30pm.
Hens that truly are pasture-raised, foraging on green plants and bugs, have a diet full of these carotenoids. As a result, their yolks have this bright orange color, so this color is a sign of a healthy diet full or nutrients.
Daily alcohol consumption in the EU by age
In the EU, drinking every day is most frequent in Portugal, with a fifth (20.7 per cent) of the population consuming alcohol daily, followed by Spain (13.0 per cent) and Italy (12.1 per cent). The lowest share of daily drinkers is around 1 per cent in Latvia and Lithuania.
As in other Southern European cultures, coffee is Portugal's social beverage of choice (for half the time at least; the other half being saturated with vino). On average, a Portuguese adult consumes over 4kg of coffee beans a year.
Port Wine
This is one of the most famous Portuguese drinks ever. It is so well known and drank all over the country and even abroad – especially in the UK since their citizens appreciate this type of wine so much. Port Wine is made from distilled grape spirits exclusively made in the Douro Valley (north of Portugal).
In 2022, the domestic brand Continente was the most popular brand in Portugal when it came to yogurt products, accounting for 37 percent of the answers.
The average Aussie goes to bed just after 10:45pm, which is more than an hour earlier than the late night Spaniards, the University of Michigan's global sleep pattern research found. As well as the early nights, Australians are the first to rise along with Americans who both get up just after 6:45am.
Australians are among the world's earliest risers, with nearly half of all Aussies getting out of bed before 7am, according to a new study.
Most people take their day off on Sundays. It's an important day for the Portuguese, because they get to relax and spend time with their family after a long week of working. It's a day of resting before heading into a new week, on Monday.