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Time Out Market Lisboa

Cais do Sodré

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Time Out Market Lisboa stands at Avenida 24 de Julho, 49 (Praça Dom Luís I), 1200-148 Lisboa, in the Cais do Sodré neighbourhood. It occupies part of the Mercado da Ribeira, a nineteenth-century building with an iron-and-glass roof, and it opens every day from 10:00 until midnight. The team at Time Out Portugal created it, and it opened in 2014 as the original Time Out Market. The operators call it the world's first gastronomic and cultural market, and one description adds that journalists curate it. The building is older than the food hall. The Mercado da Ribeira opened on 1 January 1882 as the Mercado da Ribeira Nova, to a design by engineer Frederico Ressano Garcia. Its iron frame was arranged around a central corridor with running water, which let fish and produce stay cool instead of sitting in open air. A fire destroyed the eastern section on 7 June 1893. In 1926 Lisbon City Council demolished the damaged structure and commissioned architect João Piloto to design a replacement, which reopened in 1930. That version has a large central dome, tiled outside and painted inside, ceramic entrance panels showing maritime scenes by Jorge Colaço, and frescoes of fruit and vegetables by Gabriel Constanti. The dome looked unusual above a produce market, so locals nicknamed the building Mesquita do Nabo, meaning the Turnip Mosque. Time Out got its space through a municipal concession. In October 2010 Lisbon City Council offered part of the building on a 20-year concession, covering roughly 5,000 m², which meant half of the ground floor and all of the first floor. Time Out Lisboa was the only bidder. It proposed inviting restaurants and chefs it had recommended in its reviews to run permanent stalls. The other half of the building still works as a municipal market with fish, fruit and vegetable stalls. Inside the market hall are 26 restaurants, 8 bars, a dozen shops, an events venue and a cooking academy. Named eateries include Libertà Pasta Bar, Marisqueira Azul, Duro de Matar, Pinóquio, Monte Mar and Café de São Bento. Henrique Sá Pessoa, who holds two stars at his restaurant Alma, runs Stall 13, where he sells slow-cooked suckling pig, and Marlene Vieira runs Stall 12, with roasted octopus and duck rice. Croqueteria offers a cuttlefish ink croquette and an alheira croquette, and Super Bock beer is poured at the central drink stalls. The Time Out Academy, equipped with support from Teka, seats 22 and hosts workshops, courses and show cooking.

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