How to Order COFFEE in Portugal like a Local - living in Portugal like a local!

[@carlos_placido]

"A good restaurant needs good coffee, why? Because after a meal we desire to drink a tasty coffee that makes us return." Coffee indeed plays a significant role in the dining experience, offering a satisfying conclusion to a meal and encouraging customers to come back.

[@carlos_placido]

Por isso só bebo café Português.

[@mariacanto1871]

That was a fine analysis of Portuguese coffees, the only thing you forgot to mention is how delicious Portuguese coffee is!

[@frederikpohl5492]

It definetely is delicious !

[@Paulo-s1d9r]

Café is love❤

[@ricardosilva6355]

Italiana probably comes from the fact that a normal espresso in Italy is shorter than in Portugal

[@frederikpohl4567]

That makes sense thank you

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Yes

[@alex99n]

Sim

[@vjQUA]

1 ice coffee. I usually ask that in hot summer days . its a regular coffee then a empty glass with an ice cube ... then you put your coffee over the ice cube and shake till theres no cube and... voilá ... an ice coffee (Café gelado)

[@frederikpohl5492]

I will try it but usually I love to drink coffee as hot as hell!

[@trgtrg678]

also common in Spain

[@IM2a1]

Well done! Suggestions for a next video: Ceramic temperature when asking the coffee: "chávena fria" / "chávena escaldada" respectively cold or hot cup. Sequence: "sem princípio" / "sem fim" the bartender let the coffee running a little before putting the cup / or take the cup before ending "Carioca": make a light coffee with the leftover of the previous coffee. You can also ask the expresso asking for a "bica" or, if you are in northern Portugal area: "cimbalino". So one can make combos with all of that: "uma bica curta em chávena escladada sem princípio" Or challenge the memory and communication of the coffee shop at the end of a meal with friends ordening looks like a rap music: "6 bicas, 3 normais, 2 cheia e uma curta. Uma das cheias é em chávena escladada sem princípio, a outra é descafeinada. As normais são todas em chávena fria menos uma que é escladada e pingada. A curta leva um cheirinho e é em chávena fria".

[@frederikpohl5492]

Thank you. Great suggestion!

[@PedroMachadoPT]

Cimbalino was only used in Oporto. Now it’s used nowhere.

[@trgtrg678]

genial!!!

[@Blisolda]

Café com cheirinho: coffee with a little bit of an alcoholic drink, usually aguardente. Not so common any more, I guess.

[@antonioribeiro2818]

70's fashion but with my father-in-law it still has a ' cheirinho '😂😂

[@tupi1970]

Italiano e Curto are the same. Some here say "italiano" because it reminds of the size of the "ristretto" served in italy . For portugueses, it is kind of "too little coffee ", thats why the reference as a different coffee. But it is not common to order this, normally we order the Bica or , if someone dont want to drink too much coffee, we prefer to mix it with milk.

[@PedroMachadoPT]

Italiano is shorter than short (“curto”).

[@andredemony]

More or less... It´s "italiana", not italiano. Uma (bica) italiana. It used to be the same as curto, but there is more variation of terms nowadays, at least in Lisbon, so that a lot of baristas have starting to use "Italiana" for very low coffee like the Italian Ristretto, leaving the "cafe curto" term for a normal expresso that is cut at the point when the thicker part of the shot ends.

[@PedroMachadoPT]

@@andredemony Only in Lisbon people say “bica”. The rest of the country says “café”. “Café italiana” is impossible in Portuguese. I don’t ever ask so much short, so I’d either say “café à italiana” or “café italiano” - I don’t really remember how people use to say it.

[@GandaMelgao]

@@PedroMachadoPT Bom dia. Uma italiana, por favor. I use it a lot where I live 😁

[@JoaoMariaNunes]

cappuccino is a regular coffee with cream ( natas ) on the top ( not milk )

[@partista77]

No. It's with milk. And chocolate on top. With cream is cafe com natas. Better ask with Chantilly or they may serve u a regular Expresso and a pastel de nata 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@acf9406]

You are very well informed. Great job!!!

[@frederikpohl5492]

thank you!

[@jrosa__]

Italiano is the Italian Expresso, its a bit shorter and stronger then the average expresso. Your portuguese is really good. Keep practesing.

[@joanavitorino1436]

but noone says italiano, everyone just says "curto" (a "short coffee")

[@lxportugal9343]

@joanavitorino1436 Obrigado... não estava a ver o que é que era italiana (ainda não vi o video todo)

[@sebyaustralia63]

The "normal " Italian coffee is called.... CAFFÈ..... The café curto in Italy is called..... RISTRETTO....but it's not an ordinary coffee. It's usually in the south of Italy, they drink a "ristretto"

[@Eitbitman]

Also there is the capilé (or whatever I forget the name) which is a lemonade with coffee

[@adrianojordao4634]

Masagran

[@paulo-magum3621]

Café curto is a expresso in the North of Portugal- Its the better one- Never heard of a Italiano - Im Portuguese since 1970

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Here in the southern Portugal the italiano is very well know.

[@cristovaogomes2245]

It’s italiana and if you go to Italy you’ll find out why it’s called like that

[@PedroMachadoPT]

Nonsense.

[@paulo-magum3621]

@@PedroMachadoPT why? In porto is cafe curto in italy where i liived 4 years is ristretto

[@joanavitorino1436]

@@paulo-magum3621 em Lisboa também ninguém diz um "italiano" (só os turistas talvez...), os lisboetas pedem "um curto"! Eu peço curto muitas vezes, nunca disse nem costumo ouvir "um italiano"

[@adelinosantos5211]

❤a regular american coffee in Portland is called GALÃO DIRETO!

[@margaridadomingos765]

Great presentation . You know , Portuguese drink a lot of coffee. In Lisbon the expresso is called a 'bica ' and in the north , at Oporto it's a 'cimbalino "

[@joanavitorino1436]

Só os empregados de mesa (tipicamente mais velhos) chaman bica a um café, ao estilo "sai uma bica!" As pessoas em geral pedem um café, não pedem uma bica. Nasci, cresci e vivi toda a vida em Lisboa, bebo café diariamente, e posso contar pelos dedos da mão as vezes que ouvi um cliente pedir uma "bica"

[@sebyaustralia63]

​@@joanavitorino1436 Na Madeira ainda se diz.... BICA.... so as turistas estrangeiros chamam-o CAFÉ

[@musa-too]

No Porto já quase ninguém pode um cimbalino, pedimos simplesmente um café .

[@sebyaustralia63]

The Café is also called... BICA...... the abbreviation of.... Beba Isto Com Açúcar...... The italian Cappuccino is called.... CHINÉSA..... and the same size, but without milk..... CHÍNO..... Maybe only on Madeira island??!!??😉😉😁😁

[@lxportugal9343]

B.i.c.a. that's an urban myth O café sai por uma bica

[@frederikpohl5492]

😲 On Madeira they eat fish with bananas.....

[@musa-too]

@@frederikpohl5492 😂😂😂

[@elsacouto209]

"café italino" isn't the common expression you should say "café curto" that mean "short coffee". Also "Abatanado" is not double coffee is just one coffee with more water, it is the most close to american coffee, but much more tasty 😊

[@silviasilva8341]

italinan I think is more comun Lisbon reagion

[@elsacouto209]

@@silviasilva8341 OK. But I have asked for "Cafá curto" in Lisbon and everybody knows that it is...

[@PedroMachadoPT]

Not just more water but also more coffee. The coffee is less concentrated but the total amount of coffee is greater than that of a normal espresso. They just let the machine pour coffee for the double amount of time.

[@elsacouto209]

@@PedroMachadoPT Correct. It's not an expresso with plain water, but I don't think it's a double coffee, just a little more coffee.

[@PedroMachadoPT]

@@elsacouto209 It’s not two espressos. It’s just an espresso with double the liquid. It implies that it contains both more water and more coffee than a normal one. It’s the same as letting the Nespresso machine work for double the time in one capsule.

[@MiguelXisto1]

If we re in a good mood the most used word must be "cafezinho' which translate to little coffe.

[@acf9406]

I believe 'italiano' will be - at least in some parts of the country - better known as 'café curto'. At least where I'm from most cafés will not know "italiano", I think. I tried to ask for it but I believe most will not know. That huge cup you shown you will have to make it yourself at home. I know I used to make one for myself every morning - from my cafeteira ;-)

[@GandaMelgao]

Here where I live, café curto is 1/3 of the cup. Italiana is 10 to 20 % of the cup.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

In Portugal there are two different words to ask for an expresso that depends of the region un the country. In the North you ask for a Cimbalino. In Lisboa snd South Portugal you ask for a Bica. Also in Lisboa dnd South Portugal if you adk for a café it is understood you are asking gor an expresso aka a Bica.

[@Blisolda]

No one really asks for a cimbalino in the north any more, we just ask for a coffee, though. Maybe older people may still do it.

[@DanielSilva-gf4kk]

Cimbalino is in Porto, not ' the north '

[@carlossaraiva8213]

@@DanielSilva-gf4kk So Porto is center now?

[@carlosbasilio5220]

Cimbalinho cames out of the famous italian machine brand of expesso making machines 'La Cimbali' a strong suplier of this machines in the midle od the last centuri

[@joanavitorino1436]

@@Blisolda e acho que nunca ninguém realmente pediu "bicas" em Lisboa, talvez no inicio do sec XX lol Só os empregados de mesa (tipicamente mais velhos) é que comunicam uns com os outros assim, do género "sai uma bica!". Eu nunca pedi bicas nem conheci gente que pedisse e toda a vida vivi em Lisboa

[@helenaferreiragoncalves6021]

In madeira island, small cup with milk, garoto

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Also in Lisboa and the south of Portugal.

[@TheAquarius1978]

@@carlossaraiva8213 Yea.... i kind of made an ass of myself because of that lol, apparently a " Meia de leite " is what we call a " Chinesa ", i didnt knew that.......

[@carlossaraiva8213]

@@TheAquarius1978 a chinesa?? I never heard of being called that! Hilarious. Reminds me of the "conquilha" and "cadelinha" thing.

[@PedroMachadoPT]

Not only in Madeira, but in the whole country.

[@PedroMachadoPT]

@@carlossaraiva8213 Also in the North…

[@ruiddd956]

Not perfect but good. Thank you.

[@frederikpohl5492]

Thank you. If you have suggestions please let me know!

[@jlpsinde]

Hi, very good, love from Portugal!

[@PedroMachadoPT]

You managed to get a cup I’ve never seen… The normal one is the one that you show in the small image in the upper right corner.

[@frederikpohl5492]

It is a souvenir from Obidos 😊

[@antonsimon7634]

Hello, at my work, 95% are tourists, and when they order a coffee, 90% of the time I have to ask if it's espresso, americano, cappuccino, coffee with a little milk, coffee with milk....................😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@PedroMachadoPT]

Don’t ask. Let them have the Portuguese experience, which is what they want. Many waiters make the mistake of asking tourists how they want things when they don’t ask the locals the same. The most shocking example I saw was a waiter asking tourists if they wanted grilled sardines “with French fries or baked potatoes”. I cringed.

[@antonsimon7634]

@@PedroMachadoPT My God, everyone knows that grilled sardines are served with boiled potatoes

[@PedroMachadoPT]

@@antonsimon7634 Tourists don’t.

[@JoaoMariaNunes]

the normal coffe ( portuguese ) has several names CAFE, BICA or CIMBALINO ( at Porto ) , regarding the size you can have 3 : one Italian ( almost empty...lol ) Normal ( half way ) and Full ( full )

[@joanavitorino1436]

normal não é "half way". Um café normal bem tirado deve conter 2/3 da chávena. Hoje em dia são muitos os que incumprem isto, mas é a regra, supostamente é a quantidade certa

[@RicardGomes76]

Um café sem princípio 😅 Adoro o nome

[@luisaribeiro9597]

@@RicardGomes76 sounds naughty 😅

[@mikeysan4]

Ou café sem ponta.

[@luisaribeiro9597]

@@mikeysan4 esse nunca ouvi!

[@PedroMachadoPT]

@@luisaribeiro9597 Naughty?

[@joaomendes2454]

Great!

[@10459chon]

Not “Italiano”, but “italiana” (female), because traditionally italien ladys were known for being short size

[@teresagomes2790]

Wrong You don't nothing about coffee

[@luisaribeiro9597]

Café sem princípio: you discard the first ml of coffee, which is where most caffeine is.

[@frederikpohl4567]

I did not know this one. Probably good for people with a sensitive stomach

[@joanavitorino1436]

@@frederikpohl4567 yes, it's works like a "carioca" (which in Brasil some call "chafé" because it's like a tea ("chá") sort of coffee

[@GandaMelgao]

Also called café escorrido 😊

[@VeraDonna]

It's a coffee like my ex. With no morals.

[@susanamariapereirasoares7188]

café sem cabeça 😀

[@luka583]

Normal expresso coffee is 3/4 full not half full.

[@mikeysan4]

Several wrong informations in a video that is suposed to be informative. What a shame. 1) You can order any café drink in a decaf variety. Just say you wait it decaf: descafeinado pingado, or garoto descafeinado, for example. 2) Meia de leite is NOT the same as a cappuccino. It's simply 50% coffee and 50% steamed milk. Cappuccino ads milk foam this. 3) Galão is more milk (3/4) than coffee (1/4). You said it the wrong way around. 4) Meia de leite and galão have the same amount of coffee - one expresso - and vary in the amount of milk.

[@silviasilva8341]

I came here to say exactly that. Although the gallon is 3/4 milk and 1/4 coffee. 3/4 and 1/2 don't add up. Sometimes people ask for a darker gallon and in this case it will be 2/3 milk and 1/3 coffee more or less. In the Algarve coastal area, seaside cafes sometimes add foamed milk on top of the milk sock and gallon, mainly for tourists.

[@PedroMachadoPT]

Nowhere in Portugal do they make cappuccino like in Italy. Cappuccino is made of coffee and milk. There is no foam added. It’s just that the milk is steamed and stirred in the machine so that it’s foamy.

[@Olaias1]

Right!

[@CarlosPT-hb6zb]

Italiano, means "Italien". It Is, like in Italy, an expresso with a very small quantity of watwr. Is very srong. In italy this "version" of cofee is the most usual presentation in coffes and restaurants.

[@JustusSchillermann]

Nice Video!!

[@joanapires1787]

Cappuccino shouldn't really be included, it is something only recently has gained popularity due to americans from the US and europeans from the north.

[@linogalveias]

true... we ask for meia de leite or galão... you can ask for galão claro with more milk or galão escuro with more coffee...

[@salomecomedy]

Yes, not originally portuguese but more portuguese people are drinking that now. I guess that's the point

[@frederikpohl4567]

Correct but even the lady from the cafe insisted to include the cappuccino

[@joanapires1787]

Sure to everything here, but the same will apply to flat white and variants like that. But yeah, all of you are right about that.

[@luisoliveira7338]

If Italy for you it’s from the north, than you’re right! 😅 In a matter of fact, the cappuccino influences in Portugal have come from Italy! 99%!

[@putocardi]

Italiano is exactly the "corto" the normal espresso

[@paulosousa8821]

We have abatanado strong café

[@salomecomedy]

Coffee! ❤

[@frederikpohl5492]

There are rumors that a German tought you what is an abatanado

[@salomecomedy]

@@frederikpohl5492 among other things ;-)

[@salomecomedy]

Among other things! ;-)

[@HenriqueSilvestre-c5u]

Long story short, cafezinho sachavor! Quanto é? Obrigadinho amigo. Done.

[@joserui7910]

You are an expert! Congratulations!

[@frederikpohl4567]

Thank you. Not an expert more like an addicted😂

[@inessilva6086]

In my experience, "abatanado" is not a common term in Porto, so you might be missunderstood when ordering this. You can also order a "carioca" which is a weak cup of coffee made from the rests of the prior coffee served before, very diluted.

[@frederikpohl5492]

ok thank you. I know carioca only in the sense that you get a "small hot lemon"

[@lolzudo1590]

"Abatanado" is a common term in Porto. Don't know what you're talking about. If you ask "quero um abatanado se faz favor" they will know what it is.

[@jennybertenshaw7694]

A little different in the Algarve cafe con latte ie coffee with milk (the larger sized cup ) ANNOYINGLY our local large shopping centre has just removed one of our lovely little coffee shops and put in that anthema a STARBUCKS agghhhh I could cry ...ITS NOT COFFEE Hopefully people even American tourists will avoid it My American SIL loves his Portuguese coffee ,coming from the home of Starbucks he will be horrified to see it here

[@jennybertenshaw7694]

yes I forgot the common term in the Algarve for a small expresso is a Bica

[@JoaoMariaNunes]

regarding coffee it's the amount of caffeine that matters, so more watered coffee doesn't mean you are getting more caffeine...

[@silviasilva8341]

Abatanado and café duplo are not the same. Its the same size cup - like the size of two expressos cup- but not the same amount of coffee powder. Café duplo is two doses of coffee powder ( like 2 expresso) very strong and abatanado is one dose os coffe powder it being a lighter coffee than café duplo. The cups for these tow are not the same as for meia de leite. Meia the leite has the same capacity as the galão cup glass. Some other wrong informations was explained already by @mikeysan4

[@twoandahalfsnowbells6607]

I have never seen such large cups in Portugal. Maybe they are available in hotels or places where there are a lot of tourists. Otherwise there are only mini espresso cups. And the slightly larger cups are not even as big as a normal coffee or tea cup. And I have never found good coffee in Portugal.

[@frederikpohl5492]

Where did you find good coffee?

[@twoandahalfsnowbells6607]

@@frederikpohl5492 Possibly in big cities or order online.

[@helenaferreiragoncalves6021]

Big cup with milk, chinesa Small and strong, bica Even smaller, italiana

[@frederikpohl5492]

You know why it is called italiana? Chinesa I have a suspicion.....

[@helenaferreiragoncalves6021]

Sorry no ideia 😊​@@frederikpohl5492

[@linogalveias]

bica is from central to southern Portugal... café from Coimbra up :) italiana is the size of italian coffee, small like ristretto....

[@LFANS2001]

Bica in Porto and beyond is called Cimbalino (due to the brewer machine brand La Cimbali).

[@redhead_tours]

​@@LFANS2001 sadly not anymore. Having lived in Porto and Gaia, i saw no-one asking for one in local cafés... They askefor café... Rui Veloso sang in the 80s " um café e um bagaço" 🤘

[@JocaFerdinand]

I’m Portuguese living abroad and recently was in Portugal on vacation and had to curse out this lady in Portuguese because she would not serve me a coffee because I asked for a galão to take out and she refused to served me on a paper cup would only serve it on tall glass cup!

[@frederikpohl5492]

I had a hard time ordering the coffees for filming without drinking them.First they refused to do it ....

[@gueviemoncor328]

Great job, you get it it, mostly. Coffee in Portugal is very simple. Regular coffee (café) is an expresso and the short version (italiana) is a ristretto, hence the reference to Italy. The rest is as you say. The size chart is as follows: 1/8 cup “italiana” 1/4 cup “café”, “café pingado” (“pingado” is the short name), garoto and descafeinado. “Cheio” is just a topped up café, same cup size though. 1/2 cup “duplo” and “abatatado”, being that “duplo” is short for “café duplo” (double expresso) and finally “meia de leite”. 1 cup “galão”, the same as “meia-de-leite” but double size, traditionally served in a glass without a handle, the handle addition is a recent one. Cappuccino is not Portuguese, but has become more common, just because it’s great to feel that foamy milk. PS: A regular coffee (café) is called a “bica” in Lisbon. You will sound as connoisseur if you use it in Lisbon, it will make you look good if you care to. Cheers

[@frederikpohl5492]

Thank you for the helpful information!

[@mahna_manah]

I just ask for an abatanado, I hate the idea of drinking so little coffee even if the stronger the better

[@pbohearn]

But you never mentioned BICA!

[@frederikpohl4567]

I was "raised" in the North😊

[@JoaoMariaNunes]

ainda me lembro de levar cerca de 10 minutos a explicar a um empregado da starbucks a tirar um EXPRESSO da ultima vez que fui a Boston....lol

[@frederikpohl4567]

What's the best coffee brand in Portugal?

[@mariorodrigues3276]

The ones people prefer mostly is delta, and Sical, but there are other good ones... Its all about preference...

[@lxportugal9343]

​@@mariorodrigues3276Delta has more than one type

[@frederikpohl4567]

​@@mariorodrigues3276Well Café at a gas station in Portugal is better than in a NY Starbucks

[@Fernando-dt8je]

Tourists look like fools? Obviously, just click bait/for engagement purposes. But unnecessary. You may just go with small coffee/espresso. Or coffee with milk. You may simply say bigger, smaller, stronger. No one will look like a fool. (Meia de leite = capuccino? NOOOOOOOOO way)

[@vegetapt9144]

wake up, take a piss, wash hands and face, mix red wine, yellow sugar and pieces of *broa* in a bowl(its like doing morning cereals but with wine in place of milk and *broa* in the place of the cereals), eat that for breakfast followed by a *café com cheirinho* and there you go! ready to smash any obstacle on your way(possibly a wall or a lamp post if you decide to drive right after) 😅 only the strong ones can handle that potion of power🤣

[@yeshaya24]

better coffee goes to richer countries😢

[@frederikpohl5492]

Well I think the coffee in Portugal is much better then in other "richer" countries 🙂

[@paulonolasco6130]

Tourists won't order coffee to drink in the café anyway. I see them wandering the streets taking pictures of tiles while holding big "take away" coffee cups

[@TOMTOM-zj5xj]

All that coffee come from Brazil , I suggest you change the country and come to Brazil we gonna give you cups the size of a bucket 😂

[@frederikpohl5492]

Lets see. What would I drink in Brasil: Caipirinha, Cachaça, Caju Amigo, and maybe a coffee🙂

[@TOMTOM-zj5xj]

@@frederikpohl5492 yes all inside a huge bucket to satisfy your thirsty of the beverage culture ✌️🤪 l mean you are welcome my friend 👍

[@paulo-magum3621]

A portuguese military introduced Cofee in Brasil Francisco de mello palheta in 1727

[@TOMTOM-zj5xj]

@@paulo-magum3621 okay you guys introduced BUT we married to it , so now is part of our blood heritage after 300 years And a lot of flavors are now totally Brazilian 😃

[@joaorafael2049]

Café Delta, uma das marcas mais conceituadas em Portugal,vem de várias fontes: Angola, Brasil, Colombia, Cuba, India, Timor e Vietnam.

[@LFMC1]

Tourism has become a plague and KZbin a circus with absurd hilarious contents!

[@salomecomedy]

So what are you doing here, then? Protect yourself from "the plague" by all means! ;-)

[@LFMC1]

@@salomecomedy I'll tell you what I'm doing here, again: criticizing all the absurd hilarious contents!