Lisbon · Saldanha, Campo Pequeno, the Gulbenkian

Where to eat in Avenidas Novas, decided in three moves

Avenidas Novas means the new avenues. The name covers Lisbon's push north from the late nineteenth century into the first half of the twentieth, when long straight avenues crossed what was mostly farmland. The engineer Frederico Ressano Garcia (1847 to 1911) drove the work, along with the widening of Avenida da Liberdade.

The parish of the same name is much younger. Lisbon's 2012 administrative reform created it by merging Nossa Senhora de Fátima and São Sebastião da Pedreira. It covers just under 3 square kilometres, between Alvalade, Areeiro, Campolide and Santo António.

Campo Pequeno, the neo-Mudéjar bullring designed by António José Dias da Silva, opened in 1892. A restoration in 2006 gave it a roof that lets it host events all year, and a shopping centre now sits beneath the arena.

To the west, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's modernist headquarters opened in 1969, set in a garden by the landscape architects Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and António Viana Barreto. The complex has been a National Monument since 2010. Parque Eduardo VII, laid out in 1903, is close by to the south.

Offices, apartment blocks and small kitchens fill the grid in between. Wide avenues, many options, and no obvious answer. That is the argument 531 settles.

How 531 picks your table in Avenidas Novas

One player chooses five cuisines from what is actually mapped near Avenidas Novas. The other keeps three. The first player picks one. 531 then commits you to a single restaurant, drawn live from free open map data (OpenStreetMap) at the moment you play. No lists to scroll, no reviews to argue over.

Play 531 in Avenidas Novas

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