Frutalmeidas – Salad bar

Looks from the outside like a fruit shop! But it’s not – Frutalmeidas is a funky salad bar with some of the nicest salad combinations I have found in Lisbon. Frutalmeidas have been in Lisbon for many years as a chain of fresh fruit and vegetable shops that have a cafeteria attached to them but this one is a fairly new standalone salad bar in the Saldanha area – just behind the Sheraton Hotel.

Upstairs in the coffee shop you can have a coffee and choose from a selection of cakes or savoury snacks, and downstairs is the cafeteria-style salad bar where you pre-pay and then choose from an extensive menu of quiches, salads, omelettes or burgers. The salads range from traditional greek salads to combinations of kiwifruit, avocado and apple with some walnuts thrown in, on a base of lettuce or pasta, whichever you prefer. They also have fresh fruit salad on the menu and their freshly created fruit juices are to die for!! They taste just like they are fruit that has been blended with a tiny bit of water which makes them super-fruity!

This salad bar tends to be very busy at lunch times during the week where people queue up to have their lunch but if you choose your time wisely there is no wait at all. It is well worth it if you are feeling the need for a healthy feed!