Portuguese

• Lisboeta

  Nuno Mendes' Portuguese restaurant in Fitzrovia.

• Portuguese restaurant Volta do Mar moves to Chelsea

  

  They opened in Covent Garden back in 2019 but now Portuguese restaurant Volta Do Mar have upped sticks and moved to Chelsea.

  Opening on Draycott Avenue (taking over the old Bottles Chelsea site) this west London location gives them a new private dining room as well as a small outside terrace when the weather warms up. As for the food, that remains all about the regional cuisine of Portugal,

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• Solis sees the TATA Eatery team bring a chicken and steak grill to Arcade Battersea

   

  Just coming off a recent residency at The Sea, The Sea, TATA Eatery's Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng are planning their next big thing, Solis, which is opening in the new Arcade food hall in Battersea. 

  Solis is being billed primarily as a chicken and steak grill, but one with a difference, taking specific influences from Spain,

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• Casa do Frango pick Victoria as the next home for their Piri-Piri chicken

  

  They've had great success with their Piri-Piri chicken around London and now Casa do Frango are getting ready to open their next big restaurant, this time in Victoria (taking over the space left by Jason Atherton's Hai Cenato). 

  As you might expect, the menu will be primarily all about the Frango Piri-Piri chicken, the heart of the menu which takes its inspiration from

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• Test Driving Joia - Portuguese food with a very London view

  

  Right beside Battersea Power Station, Joia matches Portuguese food from a Michelin-starred chef with some pretty spectacular views. We head over on the riverboat to try it out. 

• The City gets a new Portuguese wine and tapas bar in Bar 1790

  

  If you're not doing Dry January, you might be interested to learn about a new Portuguese wine bar that opened up just before Londoners broke for the Christmas holidays. Bar 1790 might be a brand new addition to the City, but it's following a more than 230 year old tradition for the Sandeman port company which has been based in St Swithin's Lane since 1790, hence the name of the bar.

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• Top Portuguese chef Henrique Sá Pessoa is opening JOIA at the Battersea Power Station

  

  11/11/22 - Updated with the opening date

  With the opening of London’s first art’otel comes details of what one of the restaurants will be in the hotel's Battersea Power Station site, and it’s good news for fans of Portuguese food. Alongside Italian restaurant Tozi will

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• Roulote is a new pop-up sandwich bar from Bar Douro

  

  Restaurants won't be open to customers until April (outside at least) so we're starting to see some more interesting ways that they've devised to reopen before then (particularly now that we're allowed to sit and eat in the park). 

  Roulote is Bar Douro's way of slowly getting back to business. It's a sandwich pop up, named after Portuguese street food trailers, that's being run from the

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• Bar Douro is delivering Portuguese food to Londoners

  

  Fancy getting some Portuguese food in? Well, Bar Douro have just returned to help you with that. 

  From Friday they're returning, kicking off with delivery on Deliveroo. The menu will be similar to the restaurants, with sections for Petiscos (snacks), Horta (garden), Mar (sea) and Terra (land).

• Test Driving Bar Douro City - a Portuguese haven in Broadgate

  

  They're big in London Bridge and now this top Portuguese restaurant has opened in the City too. We head down for a look. 

• Bar Douro City will bring Portuguese food and wine to Broadgate

  The original Bar Douro in Flat Iron Square (near London Bridge) has proven such a hit that they're getting ready to open a second. This time they'll be bringing their Portuguese wine and food to a big new development near Broadgate. 

• Test Driving Volta do Mar - a restaurant using Portugal as its culinary springboard

  

  Having sharpened Londoners' appetites for Spanish and Italian food with the Salt Yard Group, the former founder is now hoping his new opening Volta do Mar will do the same for Portuguese food.

• Casa do Frango brings its piri piri chicken to Shoreditch - and piri piri beer too

  One of our readers' favourite restaurants in town is coming to Shoreditch. Expect their amazing piri piri chicken, brand new Portuguese dishes and piri piri beer too. 

• Volta do Mar sees ex-Salt Yard Group founder take on Portuguese food

  The ex-Salt Yard Group founder returns to the fray with a Portuguese restaurant that'll start with custard tarts in the morning and move through to larger dishes in the evening.

• Test Driving Casa do Frango - Piri Piri chicken Algarve style in Southwark

  

  This wonderful looking dining room on Southwark High Street is serving up Portuguese food and wine with a distinctly London vibe.