Portuguese tarts abound in the city’s pastry shops, but the best, and original, is from Pasteis de Belem. Established in 1837 serving a secret recipe handed down from the monks in the nearby Belem monastery, today they continue to pump out tens of thousands of Portuguese custard tarts a day from their pretty blue-tiled cafe-cum-baking HQ. The substantial queues mean the tarts are sold hot from the oven, and boy are they worth the wait – the impossibly flaky pastry just strong enough to enclose the silken custard filling dusted with cinnamon.
Eat a Portuguese tart