Graça, Lisbon

A twelve-seat supper club in my own apartment, one Saturday a month, plus private cooking across Lisbon and the Setúbal peninsula.

• Cooked 340+ services for around 4,000 guests
• Sold out every date since March 2022
• Listed in Time Out Lisboa’s “where locals actually eat”, 2024

Cais do Sodré, Lisbon

Ran the fish section, then the pass, in a 45-cover taberna cooking modern Portuguese food over charcoal.

• Wrote the daily catch menu with the Cascais boats
• Trained nine commis chefs, six of whom now run their own sections

Porto

Northern Portuguese cooking — the broths, the bread, the slow-braised things.

Viana do Castelo

First kitchen. Where I learned to fillet properly and to clean as I go.