The Bar/Lounge at Hotel da Estrela

"Portuguese interior designer Miguel Câncio Martins (Buddha Bar Paris) continues the education theme with a hall-like reception area sporting antique desks and large chalk-scribbled blackboards"

"There’s a business center in the lounge, an honesty bar, and a pleasant garden, but the highlight here is the wonderful on-site cantina, in which patrons rate the food made by student cooks and pay what they feel is a fair price"

"A pleasant honesty bar and a good restaurant are welcome on nights when you want to take it easy after a long day of hoofing around this hilly city, and there’s also a quiet garden out back"

"Meeting space, too, is absent, though the Internet corner in the main lounge provides guests with free access to the Web"