portrait · natural light
Curator

Margarida Vaz

Covers Príncipe Real · Chiado · Estrela

Architect by training. I read a room before I read a menu. I look after the quiet north of the city, the cafés you can think in and the bars that do not shout.

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Café · Príncipe Real, Lisbon

Casa Reixa

A plant-filled back room where the matcha is whisked properly and no one rushes you.

Café · Estrela, Lisbon

A Estufa

A glass winter-garden café beside the Estrela gardens, light, wifi, and the good kind of silence.

Hotel bar · Chiado, Lisbon

Bar Quartinho

A small panelled hotel bar in Chiado where the music never wins over the conversation.

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