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In 2020, the Fado & Food Group announces a broader package of products that synthesize differently the experiences of watching Fado live with its gastronomic offerings.

FADO INSIDE THE BOX, on its way to completing five years (2014), established itself with a high demand event. Daily, at the Adega Machado fado house (1937), for one hour you can watch live fado with wine tasting and snacks.

FADO ON THE RIVER (2019), about to restart the second season. Fado out of doors with Lisbon and the Tagus River, major inspirations of fado themes, as a backdrop.

“DESGARRADA VÍNICA” Wine Tasting ”, opened in 2020 in great style, the potential objective is very clear: in a convivial environment, to make known the rich diversity of wines from the various regions of Portugal.

The new Restaurant Menu at Café Luso is presented on January 27th, 2020.

Inseparable in a fado house, also a show room, the restaurant at Café Luso has won its own place. It is a reason to visit when new gastronomic proposals are announced.

In recent years has ventured into modern languages ​​of making and presentation, but never forgetting its origins, national cuisine.

With the new Menu, there is a rapprochement with the origins. This return allows us to revive the experience of more traditional knowledge and flavors, desired by many Portuguese and visitors who want to know what we have most authentic.

Every night, from 19:00, between what is eaten and listened, Tradition is fulfilled.

The new menu of the Café Luso restaurant has the latest signature by Chef Aléxis Gregório. He will not be attending the premiere since he unexpectedly perished on 10th January. Knowing and eating the proposals of the new Menu is also a way of honoring him.

There is more to discover, but we highlight the “Bulhão Pato” Clams, the “Alheira” Croquettes, Roasted Pepper Mayonnaise, the Soups, the indispensable “Caldo Verde” with Corn Bread and sausage, in the Main-Courses, Fish, Sea Bass Fillets, Rice Tomato, Braised Cod and Octopus Rice; about Meat, Black Pork Loin, Asparagus “Migas”, Portuguese Steak.

Café Luso, Tradition without Translation

The Management and Direction Fado & Food Group participates in the death of Judite Coelho, a former employee at Café Luso and Vip Grand Hotel.

Mother of fado singer Marco Rodrigues (Café Luso and Adega Machado), she devoted much of her energy and life time to her son’s education, whose career, along with talent, owes much to her support.

Fado & Food Group participates in the sudden death of Executive Chef Alexis Gregory on 10.01.20.

Management and Director present warm condolences to Family, Friends and Colleagues.

In 2009, Chef Alexis Gregory embraced the challenge of securing one of two compelling cultural components in a fado house: the kitchen of Café Luso.

He managed to demystify and reinvent the traditional Portuguese cuisine, but respecting the matrix.

In 2012, he accumulated the functions of Executive Chef of Café Luso and Adega Machado restaurants.

He participated regularly in trainings, competitions and gastronomic events, always bearing the names of the houses where he worked and the Group.

Eminently creative, he has developed in recent years seasonal letter proposals that demanded his demanding dedication. Among them we highlight the tasting menu of Adega Machado, innovation in fado houses.

He dedicated his last months to the elaboration of the new debut letter of Café Luso, and of the menu of St. Valentine.

It fostered enthusiasm and involved its teams, sought to cooperate in extending service to room and artistic teams.

All teams, but especially those he headed in shock, are deeply dismayed but prepared and encouraged to continue a project to which the Executive Chef has made invaluable contribution, acknowledged and never forgotten.

At such an important date in the Christian calendar, there are few restaurants that open on December 25, specially the best fado houses in Lisbon.

Café Luso has prepared a special menu for the night of December 25th as tradition dictates for many to get together at Christmas 2019.

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