5–8 Jun 2026
Minho, green and wet
The north of the north. Vinho verde where it comes from, rain that doesn't count, and my grandmother's cousin's caldo verde.
Guimarães · Braga · Ponte de Lima
Inês Carvalho
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Cooking in Lisbon, eating everywhere else. Porto is home, don't @ me.
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Trips
24–28 Apr 2026
Porto and the Douro, home leave
Four days off, which means four days of being fed by relatives and then walking it off along a river.
Porto · Peso da Régua · Pinhão
20–23 Nov 2025
Barcelona, eating
Three days of professional research. Lunch late, dinner later, paella never at night.
Barcelona
12–21 Sep 2025
Sardinia in September
Nine days, one island, a rented Panda, and the discovery that Sardinians salt their bread differently.
Cagliari · Bosa · Alghero
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A pastel de nata, batch by batch
Fourteen attempts at a thing that every café on my street does better than me. Notes.
4 Sep 2026 · 1 min read
The Douro line is a restaurant that doesn't serve food
Porto to Pinhão on the slowest, best train in Portugal.
10 May 2026 · 1 min read
What a francesinha is, and isn't
A sandwich, a sauce, and an argument I have had with every Lisbon chef I know.
3 May 2026 · 1 min read
What a francesinha is, and isn't
A sandwich, a sauce, and an argument I have had with every Lisbon chef I know.
3 May 2026 · 1 min read