Meet the award-winning restaurant on Pico Island that turns Azorean produce into haute cuisine
Winner of the National Tourism Award in the Gastronomic Tourism category, Bioma Restaurant on Pico Island is proof that fine dining can flourish outside major urban centres, bringing together sustainability, ambition and the promotion and celebration of local people and produce.
Meet the chefs creating gourmet menus from food waste
Reducing food waste in a fine-dining restaurant can save many thousands of euros. Environmental concerns justify it, but the economic argument alone can be enough.
Table for ten, with science and art. The most exclusive of the JNcQUOI restaurants
Those who enter JNcQUOI Fish, next to the Tivoli Hotel on Avenida da Liberdade, would not suspect that, already at a below‑ground level, the sea is savoured at a table seating only ten people. A sound installation transports us to the right place: we are at the bottom of the sea. The almost labyrinthine route leads us to this dark‑green kitchen, ...
After the award-winning Al Sud, Louis Anjos is the new executive chef at Verdelago Resort in the Algarve
Chef Louis Anjos, who left the award-winning Al Sud in Lagos at the end of 2025, is moving to the eastern Algarve to take charge of the gastronomic project at Verdelago Resort. Fine dining is expected to arrive in three to four years.
Henrique Sá Pessoa: tradition, the future and a new beginning
Closing 'Alma' was the end of a chapter without bitterness. The chef is opening a signature restaurant, 'Henrique Sá Pessoa', conceived as an intimate experience with its sights set on Michelin stars.
Farewell Alma: Henrique Sá Pessoa's new restaurant opens in February
Henrique Sá Pessoa is moving to Pátio Bagatela with a new restaurant under his own name. The project, 'with a more personal identity, as if I were welcoming guests to my home', is due to open in February.
Authentic raises the bar for culinary luxury in the Algarve
Authentic is elevating the standard of fine dining in the Algarve, bringing a new level of gastronomic luxury to the region.
