Croissants de Lisboa

While the French argue that un croissant pur beurre, il n’ya rien de mieux, the Portuguese make, and eat, croissants in any way they please. Proof of that is this article published in Time Out Lisbon, which made our week.

Starting by saying “If there’s one thing that eating five years on behalf of Time Out taught me, is that Lisbon is in no shortage of good croissants,” Mariana Correia de Barros looked for the best and found 12 magnificent ones: from Careca do Restelo (where she resisted their famous sugary croissants in favor of journalistic rigor!) to Bénard, from Califa to Tartine, from Rosa Doce to Choupana Café, or even Tarik at the Portela Shopping mall, with the much deserved detour to Garrett do Estoril, she gave place  to newcomers among the classics, noticed the Bordallo Pinheiro tiles in Panificação Mecânica and – in a detail that really honors us – mentioned the cake’s Viennese origins by referencing our book.

Here’s how in Portuguese semi-industrial confectionery creativity trumps orthodoxy!