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Arroz de marisco is a signature dish of Portugal; we have verified places to eat it in Lisbon and Porto. A loose, soupy seafood rice cooked in a tomato-and-shellfish broth, layered with prawns, clams, mussels and crab claws, finished with coriander.
Arroz de marisco · Lisbon
A loose, soupy seafood rice cooked in a tomato-and-shellfish broth, layered with prawns, clams, mussels and crab claws, finished with coriander.
Arroz de marisco came up the Atlantic coast from Aveiro and the Setubal peninsula in the 1960s, hitting Lisbon menus by the 1970s with prawns, clams and crabs drawn from the Tagus estuary. The Lisbon version stays soupier than the Spanish paella tradition, the rice cooked just past al dente in a tomato-saffron-coriander broth, and Solar dos Presuntos's wine-list bible recommends the dish over any other on the menu.
Where to eat in Lisbon:
- Solar dos Presuntos
- Cervejaria Ramiro
- Cervejaria Liberdade
- Cervejaria Pinoquio
Where to eat Arroz de marisco in Lisbon: the editor picks
Arroz de Marisco (Portuguese Seafood Rice) · Porto
A loose, soupy Portuguese seafood rice with prawns, clams, mussels, monkfish, and squid, finished with coriander and a generous pour of white wine.
Arroz de marisco is the centrepiece of Portugal's coastal table, with the Beira Litoral and Porto coast versions cooked as a wet rice (arroz molhado), looser than risotto, with the rice swimming in a piri-piri-tinged fish broth. Adega Sao Nicolau on Rua Sao Nicolau has served the Porto version since the 1950s; the dish is also a staple of Matosinhos seafood houses.
Where to eat in Porto:
- Cervejaria Gazela
- Adega Sao Nicolau
- Tapabento
- O Golfinho
- Mercado Municipal de Matosinhos
Where to eat Arroz de Marisco (Portuguese Seafood Rice) in Porto: the editor picks
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