Espaço Tintin

First thing coming in we notice a "one step higher" space with three or four tables and a wall decorated with a whole lot different colored post-its praising the place and the Tintin character. To the left there are two mini sofas paired with a moroccan table next to a very small corridor with bar like chairs. Near the counter there is some bigger tables and down the stairs is the Tintin store with merchandizing.

There is also a top floor. This space opens at 20h and it's kind of a loungy mezzanine where you can smoke sheesha for 5€ (or so they said but seems too cheap). Cocktails are also around 5€.

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The food here was inspiring. I use this word when it makes me want to repeat it at home. One of the times I've been here I ate the italian toast with cheese, ham, tomato and olives (3.60€), which is small for a guy I can say. And the other time I had a wrap with fresh cheese (portuguese thing, don't know how to translate it), walnuts, lettuce and arugola (3.50€). This initiated me in the wrap world.
My friend also asked for an ice-cream cup with 2 scoops (2.10€).

For drinking I wasn't always lucky, the lemonade (1.30€) was weird and it had no sugar, so I added but I was so eager to drink it that it ended up not melting and I just drank a kind of acid watery thing.

As for the cold tea it was wonderful and I didn't even know I liked cold tea. The galão (1.40€), well, it is hard to go wrong on this.

An amazing thing for hard workers is that there are sockets everywhere, good internet access and amazing schedule. Maybe it gets a little far for most people but at least it is near the metro. But, I must say, I never was a fan of the Tintin comics or movies. I always preferred this little fellows instead.

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Open mondays to thursdays from 8:30h to midnight, fridays from 8:30h to 2h, saturdays from 9:30 to 2h and sundays from 9:30h to midnight.

Tuareg (2)

You can find the first post about this place here.

There are other sheesha places but they are less popular, if I eventualy go there it will end up here in this blog for sure.

I had a lot of bad luck with drinks. My brain works like this: I like mango +  I like caipiroska (caipirinha with vodka) = I will like mango caipiroska. Actually, no. It is far too sweet and yucky. Tuareg is not a good place for cocktails I must warn you, so stay away from those. Go for the delicious milkshakes instead, for the tea (of course) or just for smoking narguila.

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Open mondays and wednesdays from 15h to 24h and thursdays and saturdays from 17h to 2h in the morning. Telheira's Tuareg (the one mentioned in this post) it is open everyday form 20h to 2h in the morning.

Tuareg

Every time I go to Tuareg we have the same ritual, a new hookah flavour (today was watermelon and lemon), a new tea flavour (today was a cocktail of red fruits) for one friend, a new milkshake flavour (vodka and red fruits, called Magreb) for another, a new cocktail flavour for me (irish coffee, for 2.5€).

Well, excluding my coffee, everything was perfect. We nailed it completely. Dimmed lights, comfortably sitting on moroccan chairs or pillows, this place heals everything other than your pocket.

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The hookah was 9€, divided by three people (plus 3€ for each new charcoal, and 3 more if you want alcohol in it). All alcoholic milkshakes are 5€ and the teas are 2.50€. Nights here never last that long because we need to catch the last metro home, but no one says you need to arrive at dawn to have a good night.

Note: they have one of those "pee while you dance" bathrooms, where the light goes off if you don't move, so you have to awkwardly wave.

Facebook from Chiado's Tuareg Al-Andaluz
Open mondays and wednesdays from 15h to 24h and thursdays and saturdays from 17h to 2h in the morning. Telheira's Tuareg (the one mentioned in this post) it is open everyday form 20h to 2h in the morning.