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Bairro Alto
Bairro Alto has a concentration of cool boutiques selling retro-inspired clothes, unusual local design and Brazilian imports. Good places to start are Rua do Norte and Rua da Rosa. Many of the shops here open around and stay open until midnight.
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Carla Amaro
This tiny jewellery shop sells a colourful mix of whimsy and elegance, all handcrafted by Portuguese designer Amaro.
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Celeiro
There are supermarkets and minimercados (grocery shops) everywhere. The Baixa also has a small but well-stocked health food store, Celeiro.
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Centro Vasco da Gama
Huge shopping mall near Gare do Oriente, at Parque das Nações.
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Cerâmica Viúva Lamego
Another good showroom for azulejos (including made-to-order items) and other ceramic ware.
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Chiado
The Chiado, a wedge of wide streets between Rua do Crucifixo and Rua da Misericórdia, is elegantly 18th century, with upmarket shops and cafés. It leads up to the contrastingly weblike Bairro Alto (upper district), a fashionable 17th-century residential quarter, now the Lisbon Soho with one-off designers, vintage boutiques, record shops, restaurants and boho bars and cafés.
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Complexo das Amoreiras
Modernist shopping mall. Has useful supermarkets for self-caterers and cinemas showing blockbusters.
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Confeitaria Nacional
This quaint old confeitaria (a shop that sells sweets or pastries), founded in 1829, is a great spot to drop in for a quick café pingado (espresso with a little milk). While you're there, pick up some of the wonderfully packaged biscuits - they make a great gift... if you can stop yourself from eating them.
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Conserveira de Lisboa
Canned fish may not be the first souvenir you were thinking of taking home, but this is a brilliant place to shop, with piles of cans in retro wrappings, a monstrous old till and elderly ladies wrapping up your purchases in brown paper.
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Discolecção
Enticing vinyl and CD shops lie in and around Bairro Alto, like Discolecção.
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Discoteca Amália
The place to go for your souvenir music, this little shop is a shrine to the late lamented queen of fado (traditional Portugese singing), Amália Rodriguez. Besides myriad releases by the aforementioned artist, there's a tidy collection of other fado artists, along with classical and traditional Portuguese music.
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Fábrica Sant'Ana
Since 1741 this azulejo -maker (hand-painted tile maker) has been creating everything from tiny handmade tiles to fountains. The shop is jam-packed with a huge array of tiles (and some very cute cherubs) and while there is plenty of stuff that falls on the wrong side of kitsch, you can order wonderful custom tiles and have them shipped.
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Feira de Ladra
A motley bunch of Lisboetas and their equally eclectic wares stretch virtually all the way from the Mosteiro de S Vicente de Fora to the Panteão Nacional de Santa Engrácia for Lisbon's best-known flea market, or 'thieves' market'. You'll find everything from army surplus gear to random CD collections, incense to piles of clothes. And that's just one stall!
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Fnac
Fnac has an excellent selection of translated Portuguese literature, plus a vast array of music, including fado , local pop and indie releases. There's loads of computer and digital camera accessories for the travelling tech-head, a cafe with frequent readings and performances, and a concert box office. Also at Centro Comercial Colombo in Benfica.
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Livraria Bertrand
Dating to the 18th century, Bertrand bookshops have excellent selections amid old-world charm. There are other branches in the Centro Cultural de Belém and Centro Comercial Colombo shopping centre.
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Livraria Buchholz
Huge collection of literature in Portuguese, English, French and German.
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Livraria Municipal
A spacious, tiled bookshop, devoted entirely to Lisbon, with some titles in English.
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Madeira House
Ignore the gaudy souvenirs and bizarre cork products. This is the best place to buy quality hand-embroidered Madeira lace and linen, including tablecloths, place mats and napkin sets. They also sell colourful Barcelos' roosters and beautifully glazed Hispano-Arab geometric patterned tiles - they make great 'features' for fans of minimalism.
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Manuel Tavares
The window display of this lovely Art Deco shop is jam-packed with wine, port and delicatessen items. Inside you'll find a bewildering array of ports, but what we love here is the morcelas (blood sausage) and the range of other chouriços (sausages) that make a great snack with some of the wonderful cheeses on offer.
