This premier seafood restaurant is a local’s secret. Hidden among the Port of Lisbon’s shipping container cranes, it attracts locals with its brilliantly simple grilled fish combined with top Alentejan and Douro wines. Mara do Céu oversees a parking-lot-style barbecue, framed by shipping containers and departmental port buildings. Located next to the Gare Marítima de Rocha Conde d’Óbidos (the Maritime Station of Rocha Conde d’Óbidos), it’s hidden amongst shipping containers, separated from the port by a barbed-wire fence.
Último Porto has remained a stronghold for grilled fish, surviving trends and feeding business people, port workers and young crowds from the co-working building nearby.
The fish and seafood are primarily from Ribeira, but there is another key to their freshness: the manner they are cooked. Maria do Céu, the grill master, has been doing this for 15 years and still smiles. At 10:30 a.m., she starts the fire, and two hours later, the first orders arrive horse mackerel, grouper, cuttlefish, salt cod, hake roe, and, of course, the popular summer sardines. She grills the gleaming silverfish over low heat, merely seasoning with sea salt, and the fragrance (and smoke) of the grill fills the patio
Seabass, cuttlefish, grouper, and sole are grilled to perfection and served with boiled potatoes and grelhos (rapini greens), all without a single tourist in sight.
To locate it, walk along Rua Cintura Porto Lisboa along the marina’s edge, turn left, and proceed to the dock’s end.
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