Ao26 Vegan Food Project Vitor Cordon Lisbon 10th May 2019
I have been to Ao26 Vegan Food Project before and it should be on every vegans list to visit, when in Lisbon, so was the obvious choice for lunch whilst exploring the city.
Ao26 opens at 12.30 pm so I booked a table as I know how busy it gets, a good move as the place was packed by 12.45 pm.
There is a specials board on the wall over the open kitchen and a small concise menu, which I think helps with quality, freshness and consistency.
We both chose cream of pumpkin and ginger soup to start, a lovely light flavoursome soup and not too filling before our main course.
I chose Croque Monsieur made with bechamel sauce, cheese and vegan meat, it was too hard to resist. Steven chose creamy polenta with caponata, tofu and tomato sauce off the specials board, with a side of potato chips with mayonnaise, thinking they were chips but were actually crisps.
The Croque Monsieur was all I expected and more, it was gorgeous, creamy and scrumptious, I was blown away it was that good.
I would have made by eyes bigger than my belly by ordering chips, so the crisps were a perfect accompaniment, nice and crisp but not greasy.
Steven loved the polenta dish, it was a substantial portion and even though he is not a huge aubergine fan, the caponata won him over it was so well cooked and packed with flavour, he left a clean plate.
We were too full for dessert, so chose camomile tea to finish, served in beautiful cast iron tea pots, which weighed a ton and kept the tea nice and hot.
Ao26 Vegan Food Project is one of the best vegan restaurants in Lisbon and I cannot wait to return next year. Highly recommended.
Ao26 opens at 12.30 pm so I booked a table as I know how busy it gets, a good move as the place was packed by 12.45 pm.
There is a specials board on the wall over the open kitchen and a small concise menu, which I think helps with quality, freshness and consistency.
We both chose cream of pumpkin and ginger soup to start, a lovely light flavoursome soup and not too filling before our main course.
I chose Croque Monsieur made with bechamel sauce, cheese and vegan meat, it was too hard to resist. Steven chose creamy polenta with caponata, tofu and tomato sauce off the specials board, with a side of potato chips with mayonnaise, thinking they were chips but were actually crisps.
The Croque Monsieur was all I expected and more, it was gorgeous, creamy and scrumptious, I was blown away it was that good.
I would have made by eyes bigger than my belly by ordering chips, so the crisps were a perfect accompaniment, nice and crisp but not greasy.
Steven loved the polenta dish, it was a substantial portion and even though he is not a huge aubergine fan, the caponata won him over it was so well cooked and packed with flavour, he left a clean plate.
We were too full for dessert, so chose camomile tea to finish, served in beautiful cast iron tea pots, which weighed a ton and kept the tea nice and hot.
Ao26 Vegan Food Project is one of the best vegan restaurants in Lisbon and I cannot wait to return next year. Highly recommended.
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