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Tarabel Lisbon: Discreet Luxury Hideaway Above the Tagus

Ann Abel — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:26:02 +0000

While Lisbon has more than its share of splashy new hotel openings coming up, it’s refreshing to find a luxury stay that’s so discrete, there’s not even a name plate beside the front door. That’s the case at Tarabel Lisbon, a jewel box hotel amid the noble residences and foreign ambassadors’ residences of the posh Lapa neighborhood. That location makes the hotel both central and hidden away, and it gives it some gorgeous views over the Tagus River far below. […]

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Drogaria Restaurant- Modern Portuguese in Lisbon

Ann Abel — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 11:10:10 +0000

For all of its worldly flavors and cosmopolitan glamour, Drogaria restaurant in Lisbon, is both a passion project and a homecoming for its proprietor. Restaurateur Paulo Aguiar grew up nearby, in Lapa, and remembers when the space was an actual drogaria (a shop for household goods), a hub of social life in the neighborhood. Now he wants to re-create that spirit, while making it a gathering place in today’s more international Lisbon. The food, dreamed up by talented chef Daniel […]

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