O Piteu da Graca in Lisbon's Graca: a workers' tasca lined in azulejos, baked octopus, duck rice and an Alentejo wine card, full at lunch every weekday.
Signature: Polvo a lagareiro, Arroz de pato
Order: Polvo a lagareiro, baked octopus with crushed potatoes.
Tasca do Jaime in Lisbon's Graca: a tiled tasca with a daily blackboard, iscas com elas and pataniscas at workers' prices, cash only, no bookings.
Signature: Daily blackboard, Iscas com elas, Pataniscas
Order: Iscas com elas, marinated pork liver with boiled potatoes.
Vino Vero Graca in Lisbon: the second outpost of the Italian-run natural-wine bar on Rua de Sao Tome, low-intervention pours from Italy and Portugal.
Signature pour: Frank Cornelissen Munjebel Etna rosso
Wine focus: Natural Italian and Portuguese wines
Food: Italian crostini and Portuguese cheese
Oitava Colina in Lisbon's Graca: the eighth-hill taproom on Rua Damasceno Monteiro, ten beers on rotation plus simple bar food, neighbourhood feel.
Tasca do Jaime in Lisbon's Graca: a tiled lunch tasca with daily-blackboard mains under thirteen euros, iscas com elas, pataniscas, cash only, no bookings.
Try: Daily blackboard, iscas com elas