Brasileira do Chiado is the most emblematic cafe in town and a must for anyone visiting Lisbon. Located in the cosmopolitan Rua Garrett, opposite to the Metro station in Chiado, this cafe is always full (especially with foreign visitors). A Brasileira opened in 1905, by the initiative of Adriano Telles, a Portuguese who made his fortune in Brazil and imported Brazilian coffee to sell it here. It is said that the bica (the Portuguese version of an espresso) was invented here, when this entrepreneur began to serve coffees directly from the machine, avoiding the use of a coffee pot to distribute them into the tables, so that the taste of the drink would be more intense. It soon became a crowded place and in the twenties of the last century it was turned into a meeting point for artists, writers and intellectuals of a new generation, unhappy with the art of that time. These are the artists who latter introduced modernism in Portugal. One of them was Fernando Pessoa, one of Li...