No documents required at this stage
19 October – 8 November 2026
Applications Are Now Open
What is Restaurant Week?
A city-wide dining event celebrating Lisbon's food scene.
Lisbon Insiders Restaurant Week is a city-wide dining event celebrating the restaurants shaping Lisbon's food scene today.
Selected venues are featured across Lisbon Insiders channels and invited to create a special Restaurant Week experience for our community of food lovers.
Why participate?
Ready to apply?
It takes less than 1 minute.
no menus, no documents, no commitments at this stage.
Detailed information is only requested after selection
Previous participants
New for 2026
Independent
Selection Committee.
For the first time, participating restaurants will be selected with the support of an independent committee composed of chefs, restaurateurs, food journalists and hospitality professionals.
Applications evaluated on five criteria
Restaurant categories
Three weeks. Three categories.
New for 2026, The Insiders Selection Committee is an independent panel of 15 hospitality professionals: hospitality professionals, journalists, founders, food writers and tastemakers, whose role is to shape the final Restaurant Week selection.
What is The Insiders Selection Committee?
Why you
As Founder of Lisbon Insiders, I wanted to bring together a group of people whose judgement, expertise and standards I genuinely respect. People who understand hospitality, appreciate quality and care deeply about the future of Lisbon's dining scene.
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Your participation helps ensure that Restaurant Week's selection is not only curated, but credible for the restaurants that apply, for the restaurants that are selected, and for the diners who place their trust in it.
Five steps. Full transparency.
How selection works
Participation
The committee structure
Evaluation criteria
Committee principles
Join the committee
We would be honoured to have you join us.
To accept your invitation, please complete the short form below by Monday 22 June at 5pm.