The traditional pork sandwich is often consumed late at night with beer, but you don’t have to be drunk to enjoy one.
Bifana origin story
The Bifana is a simple pork sandwich so no one really knows its true origin. However, many say that the dish was first made in Vendas Novas, a town about an hour east of Lisbon in the Alentejo region.
Today, folks in Vendas Novas are proud of what they claim is their culinary invention and there are lots of places that say they originated the Bifana. Café Boavista and A Chaminé are two of them, and who knows, since they’ve been around for so long, one of them could be the true inventor.