Alcantara Cafe

“…Italian GQ even places it second in its list of the 100 top restaurants of the world.”

Set amongst abandoned factories in a squalid area of the capital, a derelict printing plant had been transformed into a cosmopolitan and sophisticated restaurant, serving nouvelle cuisine, almost unheard of in the country back then. Seventeen years have passed since the initial shock and Alcântara Café has become a national landmark. Italian GQ even places it second in its list of the 100 top restaurants of the world.

in ATTITUDE, 2006.