[Michelle] Finally, Public Adjuster, Wendy Coffee is here to ensure you have a memorable night out
at her place, which she says feels authentic and inviting. This cuisine is not only one you can
easily find in south Florida, but she says you will be pleasantly surprised by the flavors and
the warm hospitality. It's in Miami and it's called Old Lisbon. [soft instrumental music]
My name is Carlos Silva and I'm the owner of Old Lisbon Restaurant.
Our menu is very traditional Portuguese. We have different
seafood dishes. Our catfish is the most popular dish here in
our restaurant, just because Portuguese people are known how to prepare catfish.
I really like the fact that people feel at home here. It's not too fancy. It's
just I want the people to come in and feel like they somehow experience the whole Portuguese
ambience between the food, the service. We try to have all these Portuguese people,
either in the kitchen or in the main room
To me, Old Lisbon is a great place for people to meet and have a
fantastic food and a Portuguese experience.
I think this might be our first Portuguese restaurant that we
talk about after all these years on the show. So I would love to
educate myself and everyone else about Portuguese cuisine. Go For it.
[Wendy] They're known for their paella. They have the best paella I think in all of Miami.
The staff is friendly. My aunt used to make bacalhau and she would make it the white style,
not the red style. And she passed away and I was just missing white bacalhau. Bacalhau is salted
catfish, which you have to boil and boil and boil to get all the salt out. And then you have some
kind of root vegetable with it. And then you just cook the onions with love for as long as you can.
And I can't find it anywhere. And when I saw it on the menu, I was just...
Are you Portuguese?
No, my family's from Spain.
Ah, okay.
But it felt like home. It felt like what my family would make growing up.
You have to start with the octopus, with garlic, parsley and it melt in your mouth?
The outside's a little bit crunchy and then the inside is so creamy. And then the bacaritos...
[Michelle] Confeders.
The confeders, yes.
I should mention before we really dig in deep, you and Wendy always go to the south Miami location
and Dennis and Marta, you went to their location on Coral Way.
Right. I think the Coral Way is the original, however.
Yes. [Michelle] The everything.
Yeah.
Yes. [Michelle] They've been there a long time.
They have, they have.
Marta what do you think?
Oh, it's a very beautiful restaurant.
[Michelle] Have you been?
I had been many years ago because I don't know how long they've been around.
[Michelle] Wow.
But I had forgotten, it's very romantic and the food was so good,
so delicious. They have five things on their menu of shredded codfish.
[Michelle] Okay.
[Marta] And I had one that had potatoes and a cream. It was...
[Michelle] Do they have cheese?
[Marta] Cheese.
That's colonnata. That's the most authentic Portuguese bacalhau because I sat next to a
Portuguese person once at another table and I looked at her food and I said,
"What are you eating?" It was bubbling with cheese and delicious bacalhau out of this world.
[Michelle] Colonnata.
[Wendy] Yes.
[Michelle] Colonnata.
[Wendy] Yes.
[Michelle] This when you boil milk, the part that floats to the top is called nata.
It was out out outrageously, delicious, everything.
Again, croquettes, bacalhau croquettes. It was so fun to go there and taste those and compare in
my mind to a Cuban Croqueta. These are very, very different. They're crunchier and the shredded cod
inside, it's chewier, delicious though. I really enjoyed. And I had something that I've never had
before. It's a shredded cod with strips of grilled potatoes, the onion reduced, as you said, way,
way down, and scrambled eggs. And I thought it must have been for another table because
it was enough for six people. It was called bacalhau a Bras, BRAS with an umlaut. It
was delicious. I ate as much of it as I could and then took the rest home for the next day.
Did you have anything else that evening?
I had a bottle of Cameron Vinho Verde, which was very, very good. Usually,
Vinho Verde day has a little bit of effervescence with it.
And this one was a little flatter and the server told me something I didn't know. He said the less
effervescence in the Vinho Verde, the better the bottle's supposed to be.
It's their kind of premier white wine. They make a lot of it
and it is correct that, the less effervesce, almost it's a little dry sometimes.
It's beautiful wine and there's a lot of it made from Portugal.
And I don't drink much porto, but they have really interesting portobased wines there.
That's my favorite. I can't wait to get to the end of dinner. When I order my dessert,
I always get the chocolate moose. The consistency of it is so good. because you get a little bit of
texture in it. And then I order the Tawny 10year Barros, I think it is. I never had it before. It's
so good. And we also ordered one of the Putins. I think it was Fatima, which was really good and...
[Michelle] You had that as well, right?
[Dennis] I did. It's top of whipped cream. It's a beautiful custard and in the middle are
cookie crumbs or cake crumbs and you just work your way through the layers.
How about parking for you guys?
There's valet parking in the back of the building.
We just found a spot right on the street, no problem.
[Michelle] Okay.
It was a weekday. so I don't know on if the weekends, it's a little bit more problematic.
I never have a problem. I sometimes go by myself and I find a spot,
and sometimes I invite people and they find a spot right there as well.
[Dennis] Y'all have good parking karma. [participants laughing] I mean,
just cause I live on South Beach, there's never a spot.
Well, Wendy, Old Lisbon was your choice. Sum it up for us please.
I always feel comfortable there, everyone's nice, it's inviting,
the drinks are good. The food is always on point and I've never had a bad dish.
Marta.
We had a table right on the street. So you could see the cars
passing. White table clothes, it's beautiful.
Dennis.
A really great introduction to Portuguese food. And if you've been eating Cuban croquetas for
a long time, a Bacalhau croquette will be a very big surprise for you. Delicious though.
You can travel to the Portuguese Coast at Old Lisbon located at 5837
Sunset Drive in Miami with additional location in Sunny Isle Beach and of course, the flagship
at Coral Way. Open daily for lunch and dinner, reservations are accepted,
and the average price for dinner without drinks is about $45.