Loja Das Conservas Lisbon, Portugal
The Loja Das Conservas at Rua do Arsenal 130, Lisbon is a small and brightly decorated store that sells a variety of sardines, sardine paté, and other fish products. You can shop and select from a number of sardines in tin cans that you like. The canned sardines will then be boxed so they are ready to travel with. Loja Das Conservas or the House of Canned Goods has over a dozen Portuguese fish packing companies that they sell at their three locations – one in Porto and two in Lisboa.
I’ve included some information about three of the canned goods companies that Loja Das Conservas sells. Below is some interesting facts about Ramirez Conservas, Conservas Pinhais, and Santa Catarina Indústria Conserveira.
The Ramirez Conservas is a five generation family company and the oldest of canned good companies. Sebastian Ramirez, founder of the company, began in 1853 in Vila Real de Santo Antonio, Algarva, Portugal which is close to border of Spain. Ramirez Conservas sells over 50 seafood products including sardines, mackerel, horse mackerel, codfish, codfish with chickpeas, anchovies, tuna, calamari, squid, mussels and much more.
