Outro Lado Craft Beer

Look for the little blue sign above the arch. The alley seems like a dead end. It is not.

Getting to Outro Lado Craft Beer is its own small adventure. Coming from Praça do Comércio, you leave a bustling street full of restaurants and look for a little blue sign above an arch. That arch leads to a passageway and a short climbing alley that doesn't look like it leads anywhere worth going. Then you're there.

Inside, the space is rustic and warm: tables and couches arranged across a split-level floor, the kind of room that feels right as soon as you sit down. Fourteen rotating taps line the bar, plus a good selection of cans and bottles, wine, and cocktails. There's another door on the other side of the bar that opens onto a different street, with patio seating of its own. Outro Lado means "the other side" in Portuguese. Maybe that's where the name came from!

Fourteen taps, and a rotating list worth reading carefully.

On our first visit, I was surprised to find a beer from Perennial Artisan Ales on tap: one of our hometown breweries in St. Louis, poured on a quiet Lisbon evening in an alley I hadn't known existed an hour before. The bartender explained they try to import one Perennial beer each year as a celebration pour. I don't know how the two operations found each other, but it was one of those unexpected moments that makes traveling for beer worthwhile.

The Neapolitan pizza is the right call.

We had such a good time here on both visits that I didn't take many photos. That probably tells you everything you need to know.

One thing worth knowing before you go: Outro Lado is cash only. Multibanco (the Portuguese ATM network) is accepted, and there's an ATM a few minutes away if you need it. Don't let this catch you off guard.