Mercearia Jaime — Mercearia in Graça, Lisbon
Mercearia Jaime on Rua da Graça is where you go for fruit worth carrying home, sold by an owner who greets you at the door.
What Mercearia Jaime is
A traditional mercearia on Rua da Graça in Graça, the kind of small shop where the fruit is the reason to come: tasty and priced so that a basket of it costs less than the supermarket equivalent. Olives are sold loose and weighed out, so you can take a small bag home. Expect to spend €5–15 on a few items.
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About this store
Mercearia Jaime is an independent mercearia on Rua da Graça, in Graça, and the first thing you notice is the produce set out for the neighbourhood rather than for a display. The shop keeps products from the Beira Alta region on its shelves, which is the thread running through the place: a small counter, regional goods, and an owner who welcomes you as you come in.
The fruit is what to buy. It is tasty and priced below what the supermarkets charge for the same thing, so a bag of it is the sensible first purchase. The olives are the other thing worth carrying away: they sit loose rather than pre-packed, and you ask for them by weight, which means you can take exactly as much as you want home.
Beyond that, the shelves hold traditional Portuguese products, the regional kind you will not find lined up in a chain store. The shop works the old way, with the owner behind the counter and the goods within reach, so you point at what you want and it is weighed or bagged for you.
Spending stays low. A few items comes to somewhere between €5 and €15, and the fruit in particular is the sort of purchase where the price is part of the appeal.
It suits anyone staying in or passing through Graça who wants fruit and olives to take away rather than a full weekly shop. Martim Moniz is the station for the neighbourhood, and the shop sits on Rua da Graça itself.
What to look for
Fresh fruit
The fruit is tasty and priced below supermarket levels, which makes it the first thing to buy here.
Olives by weight
Olives are sold loose and weighed out, so you can take a small bag home rather than a fixed pack.
Products from the Beira Alta region
The shelves carry regional Portuguese goods, the kind of thing a chain store does not stock.
The pick list
What to bring home
Fresh fruit
The fruit is the reason to come in.
Olives by weight
The olives are sold loose and weighed out, and they are what one visitor chose to carry home.
Who is this for
Anyone staying in Graça who wants fruit and olives to carry home rather than a full supermarket run will find the prices here hard to beat. If you are putting together a picnic or a slow afternoon of snacking, the loose olives and the fruit are exactly the things to buy. Travellers who like a small traditional mercearia with regional Portuguese products on the shelves will get more out of a ten-minute stop here than out of a chain.
If you need a full basket of everyday groceries rather than fruit and olives, Lidl in Intendente is 300 m away and open 8 am to 9:30 pm every day.
The verdict
There is no full range here beyond fruit, olives and regional goods, so it is a short stop for produce rather than a shop to build a week around.
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