Wataan Restaurant Review — Lisbon, Portugal

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Wataan Restaurant Lisbon

A super well-rated restaurant self declared as “Asian & European” had us skeptical, yet intrigued enough to wheel our luggage 500 meters from the nearby NH Campo Grande Lisboa hotel to eat our last meal in Lisbon before boarding the train to Algarve.

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Location

Restaurant Address: Avenida 5 de Outubro 361C, 1600-036 Lisboa, Portugal

What We Ordered

Mango Lassi — €3.49

Mango Lassi in Glass with Pink Plastic Straw Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Samosa with Chutney — €3.99

An absolute show-stopper!

Deep Fried Samosa Top View at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Can you tell how absolutely crispy and amazing the texture of this samosa dough is!?

Side View of Samosas at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

And how about a peak into the highly-spiced (aka flavorful) vegetable samosa filling:

Inside Vegetable Samosas at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review featuring airy gauze button up from encircled with Mott & bow relaxed slub tank — OOTD — Airy Gauze Button Up & Slub Tank (gifted)

Curries with Rice and Naan

2 Bowls of Curry in the foreground with a basket of naan bread and a plate of Indian rice in the background at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Chicken Tikka Masala — €9.99

Chicken Tikka Masala at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Top down view of Chicken Tikka Masala at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Palak Paneer — €8.99

What is Palak Paneer? Palak Paneer is a popular North Indian vegetarian dish made with soft cubes of paneer (Fresh Indian cheese (like a cottage cheese in cubed form) simmered in a creamy, and spiced spinach sauce/gravy.

Palak Paneer Indian Cheese and Spinach Dish at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Top View of Palak Paneer at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Butter Naan — €1.99

Butter Naan at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Masala Tea — €1.99

Masala Chai at Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

Our Review — Would We Go Back?

Our experience at Wataan was definitely memorable.

We entered a seemingly desolate restaurant on a weekday during lunch hours.

Unusual for a highly rated restaurant in Lisbon, amiright?

Well, in classic foreigner fashion, unbeknownst to us it was a local holiday so instead of being filled with business people on their lunch break, we had the entire restaurant to ourselves.

Indian Food Flat Lay Wataan Restaurant Lisbon Review

We were absolutely blown away by the Indian food here at Wataan! The texture of the samosa dough was out of the world, the curries were extremely flavorful, and the masala chai at the end really hit the spot!

After checking out of our hotel in Lisbon, we had a couple hours to burn with luggage (carry on, but still you don’t want to lug it all over the cobblestones) before catching our CP (comboios portugal) train so a visit to Wataan Restaurant was literally perfect.

We enjoyed arguably the best meal of our weekend in Lisbon, had a relaxed couple of hours before the train to Algarve and left with happy, full bellies.

Total win. Totally recommend.

Plus the people were super nice, of course. =)

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