It was so nice to be back in our normal habitat! Let's support all these restaurants. They need it more than ever!

Omg Your portuguese is getting so much better!! When you said “obrigada” you litteraly sounded like a local

I think you have a good chance of becoming a positive force in restarting the food/catering/hotel business around portugal. Thanks for being a positive force! Good luck!

This vlog is interesting, because it will serve as future memory of Lisbon, in these strange and unusual days.

The reason some restaurants don’t want to open yet is they can only have 50% capacity and for that reason they will lose money. In 2 weeks , if all goes right , they will allow more people inside and more restaurants will open !

Muito obrigado pela vossa preferência - Taberna dos Ferreiros -

Welcome back! Missing you! The best couple videos by far! Portugal love you

Ahh Lisbon has still retained her beauty after lockdown

"feeling alive again" you nailed it! I had the same feeling this week in Alentejo, my mood went up 100% immediately since this Monday. Enjoy the empty city while it lasts.

Your Portuguese friend António looks...friend of three Musketeers

It took a pandemic to finally have another video with Antonio, better late than never.

Your videos are always the best! I award you both the best couple in the World

Diet is gone😂 so good to see you guys outside! I hope restaurants get full again!

Agreed. Italian food is delicious but a tad overrated, but Portuguese food is definitely among the most underrated. Having said that, I’ve concluded you guys do these food tours just to tease us. It works! Food always looks delicious. Time to hit the fridge!

The secret to get an hard shell on the arroz de pato is simple, you spread egg yolk on the top, before putting in the oven. Works everytime :)

Amalie im not even being nice Your Portuguese is REALLY good At least the pronounciation

Good to see that you guys and Lisboa are doing well. Antonio was a good addition, he was funny and had good local knowledge.

Portuguese Restaurants are seen a lot in NJ and Massachusetts. Because these states have a very large Portuguese community.

That guy made me laugh so much

Hey Joen there's portuguese restaurants in LA, well, one at least, it's called Natas Pastries... And there's also a few of them in Miami like Old Lisbon, Jardim de Portugal, Braga Portuguese Restaurant...

Wow. A man and his beer! Glad to see that you guys are doing good and enjoying yourself. Stay healthy. Cheers.

Congratulations: Welcome back. It was the first time i saw your portuguese guest , congratulations to him as well for his great explanations and knowledge. Many years ago, someone of my family locked me inside of the pasteis de Belem factory, right where the cakes wait after coming from the oven. The idea was for me to eat as many as i could! Well after that i could not even look at them for quite a few months! That was a long time ago! Now i am feeling like i want to be there inside again! Here i am starving again because of you! Cheers

Strange seeing Lisbon so quiet. When it is safe to travel again it will be one of the first places I return to, one of my favourite places in the world 💜

Yeah! Freedom! ... Glad you guys are in good spirits.

Antonio is Great, looks like a Portuguese from the XV century.

This guy is so funny! Joen's humour and his together, great chemistry! I'm so hungry after this video! Great choice of food!

I was waiting for a video ! Finally !! Keep up guys !

What joy to see you guys back out there doing your thing

Oh boy, this video is making me so hungry. With this lockdown , I don’t know when I can go to Portugal and start restaurant hopping. Growing up I ate a lot of bacalhau but must say not my favourite unlike the Portuguese. I prefer fresh fish. Joen, I can feel your pleasure when you drank that beer 😀😀😄

This is LISBOA i dont know it that well but while there for 3 days at the MANTRA we just wondered around and found the best restaurants you could imagine and just family owed dellitius food. Portuguese food defiantly under rated and freshness. Love the video.

I love you guys! Such a nice couple with amazing videos. I am glad you enjoying living in my country 🇵🇹

Portuguese food is amazing... Great video. Thanks guys.

Still hoping to be there this summer /autumn, fingers crossed

Hey Joen, just to clarify, there are Portuguese restaurants in NY too, just not in the touristic areas. It’s so great to see you out and about, and I really hope they allow tourists back in Portugal soon, so all this amazing restaurants will stay in business. Stay well and classy 😉

You guys are amazing thanks for the lisbon lockdown food tour! keep up the good work!

You guys must try Pastel de Feijao in Lisbon!! At Fabrica Pastel Feijão!! Once we tried that we never went back to De Nata!

Nice to see you guys out and about again and greetings to Antonio.

Bacalhau, was introduced by the Vikings when they used to come to Lusitania coasts to take salt and even to explore salt themselves around here more than 1000 years ago. Salt was very important back then to preserve dry food, including salmon. And salt was also money, salary. So, very early, bacalhau became the most important dry fish in Portugal. And the biggest and best pieces were preserved for weeks and months for important occasions like Christmas, once in Advent and Christmas eve, Christians were not allowed to eat meat. And so, the Portuguese used to fish it in the Northern seas of England, until the British did not allow it any longer. Anyway, we also used to fish it in Terra Nova. Terra Nova was a Portuguese possession, even before Colombo reached America. The cities of Labrador (also the local dog breed's name) and Saint John, were villages called Lavrador (the name of a Portuguese sailor) and São João. Portuguese also made a village in Maine before 1492. It was a secret ,as many others, Australia was a secret, per example. And so, Terra Nova became our main source of Bacalhau. Terra Nova never was officially Portuguese. It was on the Spanish side of Treaty of Tordesillas. So it was kinda given to our allies British, who renamed it to Newfoundland and misspelled Lavrador, and the Portuguese could continue to occupy it for their main interest: fishing our dear bacalhau. As we all know, Newfoundland became administrated by Canada. The Canadians fished there so intensely, that many fish species started to disappear and the main occupation of the island finished completely by law, turning entire cities into ghost cities since the 1990s. And of course, the Portuguese were not allowed to fish there any longer. That is why all our dear codfish is imported. Yes, it is a national dish, but we don't have the fish. About the way we prepare it, it is simply dried under the sun with salt over to help the process and to keep worms and bacteria away. It is a cure, a pre-historical pre-cooking process to preserve food. It really cooks it and when well made, people can eat it just like that, but it's too salty. Codfish is also a national dish for the British with their fish and chips, but we have a friendly joke for them: they don't cook it, they spoil it :D

Great video guys , it’s good to see Lisbon slowly recovering I really miss Portugal, hopefully our trip to Cascais and Lisbon can still happen in September. 👍

Back to the old food vlogs yay 😁 I missed that soooo much !!! we will get there ☀️☀️☀️there’s always hope !!!

This is great to see. I am ready to come back and go and eat in Lisbon. I was going to take a break from pork this year but after seeing those ribs... I hope they open to the country up to foreigners soon. They are saying maybe after June 15th but I am ready to come now.

Hahaha when Amalie said “I feel like a human again” - I felt that on a spiritual level 😪😂

I don´t think Portuguese people hate Spanish, is even comum to refer to them as Nuestros Hermanos. We just hate to be confused or compared with Spain or Spanish.

Welcome back, Stay Classy! Another Classy vlog as usual!😃🇬🇧

Thanks for scouting it out and making this video, I really enjoyed it. I hope to visit Portugal one day soon. Well "soon" probably means 2022 at this point.

Just up hill from where you were at the start of the video, there’s a restaurant called “O Marqês”. The food served is outstanding!

Antonio = the dude of big lebowski

Nice to see you out and about. Makes me hungry. I expect some businesses are trying to be safe and cautious with a gradual rollout of services, especially when they may be unsure of demand.

It's great to go out to the places we love, we went to Abrigo do Pastor Monday night, one of my favourite places to eat. But like Lisbon, no tourists here and many places have not opened. I fear this situation will be a lot worse than people think, all over the world.

I was recommended your Channel and it's been so cool watching some of your travel videos. I travel as well throughout Europe and I have visited Lisboa and Porto a couple of times and had planned on visiting again in March 2020 but the Pandemic changed that for me. I am from California but was locked down in Zagreb Croatia, so its been interesting being in Europe now after the lockdown. By the way your Portuguese friend Antonio seems so fun and is just my type, does he have a KZfaq Channel or IG? I would love for him to show me around Lisbon when I return this summer LOL.

What a great video guys - It's so good to hear you speaking Portuguese! 5:08 Joen's look is priceless! He's like a kid that just had Xmas in May haha

Thank's for being there!👍🍀🌹

The first one, Lautasco. used to be a very popular place in the 90's. Fish was outstanding. Then tourism happened and the prices skyrocketed. It's good to see them humble (?) again.

That part Joen was drinking that beer, I just started rolling over. 😂😂😂

Great to see you guys ‘out of the cage’ and exploring beautiful Lisbon. 👍😃☀️ It might take a while but I’m confident the city will come back to life soon. 🙏🙏😎

"Making out with an old Alfama woman who knows how to cook", was kinda weird Joen, but you did make me laugh! Great video and you made me really want to get there and explore all the neighborhoods for more culinary surprises.

Wish I was with you guys eating all these yummy food! Just loved the crunchy sound of the Pastéis de Belém when biting into it!!! Heaven!!!

So many aren’t opened yet in Porto de mos Leiria district, I can’t wait for all of it to open up.

You guys are so funny. That beer was worth the wait..... Thank you guys for this video..... Take care you guys when out.

António almost stole your show, almost. You guys shoud have him more times in your vídeos

My boyfriend is from Canada and he doesn't like bacalhau, he says it smells like foot!! How the hell am I dating this guy?? 😂 but we live abroad and I'm trying to persuade him to move to Lisbon together by showing him your videos because he's a chef de cuisine hahaha thanks once again guys, this was one of my favourite videos! Antonio is hilarious 😂

Hilarious! Antonio is a class act and definitely adds to the Stay Classy blog. As for the Italian / Portuguese cuisine juxtaposition - to me, its a bit of a false one. I've had Italian meals done homestyle that are fantastic, and I've had Portuguese dishes that were "passable". I've had mom and pop Chinese where the flavours were to die for, and I've had Persian "fessenjoon" that I constantly dream about. It's all about the quality of the ingredients, and the love and execution put in by the person cooking in the kitchen. What is to note, Portugal possesses an old culture, and old cultures have refined cooking and cuisine using the local or accessable ingredients over many generations. Joen's and Amalie's trip to Northern Portugal to discover more food and wine and the ditching of Michelin star restaurants in favour of the more local is truly the start of a gastronomic adventure. Stay healthy guys, thank you for supporting the mom and pop places in Portugal, and blessings and strength to all looking to reopen.

Portuguese food is underrated due to the fact that it's usually not the type of food you can eat fast and be done with it (of course there are exceptions). Portuguese food needs time, both to prepare and to eat it. Most popular Italian or Spanish influenced countries food are food that is super fast to make and super fast to eat (Pizza, Tacos, etc...), thats a reason that makes sense in my head to justify this. Another one is the influence of Portuguese people in the USA, which is tiny compared to the Italian/Spanish influence there. In the mid 1900s millions of Italian people migrated to the USA, Latinos are also currently migrating a lot there. There's a lot of influence because of that. While portuguese, we are so few, and USA never was the top destination to migrate to.

I'm lucky I was eating "bacalhau com natas" while whatching this video.

Great work guys! Me and my bf going next week and we are hoping to see some more places to open and we planning to not leave with empty bellies, your saviors are coming :D

Hey classy couple !,you guys are so lucky, here in Canada we are not open yet; and it will take a long time before people are comfortable enough to sit at a restaurant. We are slightly opening businesses however many small are closed for good, which is very sad. It's today's reality . By the away loved your video! 😊 Lovely couple , I am Portuguese and cod is not what I like the most; my favourite recipe is bacalhau a Gomes Sa, the cod is boneless and very moist not dry at all. Ask Joen to try this recipe maybe he will like it.😊

Let's see Antonio in more vlogs

Awesome vid guys. Open up the city! We have a really good Portuguese restaurant here in Toronto called Lisbon by Night. It's great! Very authentic. Keep up the good work.

So good great vid, its not just the fear, a lot off people is being payed by the social security (lay off) receiving only 66% of the salary, so they don´t have money to go outside, they just pay the bills and buy the essential groceries..

I’m Portuguese residing in the USA. I enjoyed all of your videos and both of you are full of energy and very funny. I have learned more about Portugal from you guys than I did when was living there. Keep up the good. tak skal du have

I just subscribed...had to. Thanks for bringing all this beautiful places from my country all the way to Switzerland. Wasn't supposed to go there this year so since i'm going ....i blame it on YOU !!

thanks for these fresh and full of good vibes video,até lego;)

🤞🏻Soon, hopefully soon! Obrigada Amigos 🤗❤️🇵🇹

Nice to see you beginning to appreciate the special fish dish 😎🍷🇬🇧🇵🇹🚍⚓️

guys, you need to try a cake you can only find in Costa da Caparica called Claudino... its amazing!

António is a funny guy to be around, good vibes! make more videos with him.

That guy reminds me of a cross between Brian Cohen, the Monthy Python's messiah, and Sgt. Oddball, the hippy tank commander in "Kelly's Heroes", the movie...

Sorry to hear about the bankrupt restaurants in Lisbon. Sure wish we would've known about Taberna de Ferreiros when we were there!

I and my friends are starting going out dinner and it’s great, but not all of them are yet open

I live 5mins from that 2nd restaurant. I have to try it out. Looked great

yep..pretty much lol...i ve been already helping with take away and using home delivery

Good video, well done keep up with the good job u are doing.

FROM NOW ON IT’S THE ANTÓNIO SHOW

Its a portugeses community in newark

Cool video guys, me and my wife moved to Lisbon at the beginning of the lockdown, so we do not know the city at all lol.

Joen...I was feeling that beer man!!!!!!!

I love you guys, for you loving my country. The country I was born.

When you appeared with the beer in your hand I almost cried 😅😅 Shit, I miss so much my country... Enjoy guys

Finding your VLOG is great. We are already booked to come in November from the UK. Keep us up todate with your VLOG and as soon as UK sorts itself out we know Lisbon wants us. We may come earlier (as well) if we can.

You are great guys!!

I miss all those delicious Portuguese foods!!! I went to Portugal last year and captured the beauty of Lisbon. I miss this place very badly !!!

Hi Classy Couple, It's heartbreaking to see so many places closed down. If not for Covid-19 my husband and I would be in Lisbon now. I do hope globally we can ramp up quickly. I don't think any country will see loads of tourists until international travel restrictions are lifted. We are experiencing the same thing in the US. Unless it's drive-through, take out or outdoor seating restaurants are having a very difficult time.

Best time to go to Alentejo!

LxFactory in Alcântara almost every restaurants are open now

OMG I am so jealous... I live in Cali, the closest I got to a real meal out was take out salads in the garden at the BIg Sur Bakery, it was like goosebumps happy but nothing like what joys you are seemingly experiencing... That beer moment at the courtyard cafe was like a war film after peace was declared, for some reason I thought of the film" Life Is Beautiful", which has nothing to do with it, but it feels like we are all in a war situation, not a virus, much more than that. I do so hope for more adventures from your world, it's channels like this that have helped us all keep going in the face of the unthinkable. I cannot wait to escape America and get back to Europe and explore the old world. I can only hope all those cafes are not further victims of this nonsense. Be well : )

❤️ What's up ma boys 👫. Welcome back 😷😇😋🥂

Great one! Tasty. Nice job guys!

Hey you’re back!

Your portuguese accent got better. Well done!

Almost 900 years of history and tradition are not easily erased. We will survive and be stronger.