Travesseiro De Sintra appears as a signature dish in 1 Portugal cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Travesseiro de Sintra · Lisbon
The Travesseiro is a Sintra puff-pastry pillow filled with almond-and-egg cream, developed at Casa Piriquita in the 1940s. Order it with a glass of Colares wine.
Casa Piriquita opened in 1862 on Sintra's Rua das Padarias, founded by Amaro dos Santos and his wife Constancia Gomes; the founder's daughter Constancia Luisa Cunha developed the puff-pastry-and-egg-cream pillow in the 1940s and it became Sintra's defining sweet alongside the queijada, recipe held in family for five generations. Day-trippers cross town to eat them warm at the counter; you may be queueing for fifteen minutes, but the pastries come out hot, dusted in icing sugar.