You may have seen it in Lisbon, but this heralded pastelaria (pastry shop) hails from Alcobaça, sitting front and centre across from the monastery hawking some of Portugal's most decadent doces conventuais (conventual sweets) since 1957. Loosen your belt: these award-winning cash-only pastries pack a wallop of sugar and satisfaction.
Superstars here include cornucópias (egg sweet in a hard-shell cone), coroa de abadessa (our favourite; a small cake made with almonds, hazelnuts, caramelised squash, sugars and egg yolks) and torrão real (more almonds, more eggs, more sugar but caramel!).
