Previously i said that there were no real pubs in Lisbon. But yesterday was hanging I was hanging out with a friend of mine and I do remember that a few months ago, I went with her to the theatre and afterwards she took me to a place I'd never been before and it was the most pubby I've been to in Lisbon. That was in fact the day of the general election and I had quite a few drinks before the play to calm my nerves, and then, when it was the interval, I went to check how the results were looking and immediately necked several very large glasses of red wine. And afterwards I drank an awful lot in the bar of the theatre to try and blot out the unbearably awful truth - all before we went to check out this rather nice bar. So that's why I had forgotten about it until yesterday.
I think it was one of the nicer bars I've been to here but, I guess the Portuguese just don't like this kind of place cos we were literally the only people there (this was before the plandemic had reached us).
Anyway, it's called A Parodia
It's got these small roves off from the main bar which remind me of places such as The Princess Louise or The Angel both roughly between Centre Point and Tottenham Court Road Station.
As far as I know it's not a fake "English Pub" just a Lisbon bar that was somehow designed this way - and for that reason it's all the better Or at least that's how I remember it on my one and only totally sozzled visit.