Portugal is a country of women cooks, but of few chefs with Michelin stars. As if the jump between both labels was an unsurpassed abyss. The 2025 Michelin Portugal gala, held on Tuesday in the Porto Alfandega, picked . “They taught me to always face obstacles and overcome them,” he said in the Vieira press room, which is in charge of a small project where less than ten people work and where he aspires to excellence without sacrificing family life. The chef encouraged women not to give up their dreams and regretted that the great business investors of gastronomy almost always bet on chefs.
The ceremony came out some debts, but not all. The country’s gastronomy will continue without having a three -star restaurant, a target, confessed or unconfessado, for those responsible for the eight restaurants that already have two and confirmed their status one more year. The independence of Portugal of the Spanish gala, separated since 2024, spur the expectations of reaching the highest category for any of the establishments that are at the top of the country’s restoration for years.
EN LA CAME LA GUIA MICHELIN FOLLOWING ANTIQVVM (VITOR MATOS, OPORTA), ALMA (HENRIQUE SÁ PERSON, LISBON), BELCANTO (JOSÉ AVILLEZ, LISBON), BOA NOVA (RUA PAULA, LEÇA DA PALMEIRA), IL GALLO D’Oro (Benoit Sinthon, Funchal, Madeira), Ocean (Hans Neuner, Perm Frame), Y Vila Joya (Dieter Koschina, Albufeira).
The only variation has occurred in the category of a star, where eight new restaurants have been incorporated at the 30s that already had the distinction (the award has lost the award on 100, a place in the Alto neighborhood of Lisbon of the Bosnian Ljubomir Stanisic) . Vítor Matos, who last year conquered his second star for the ANTIQVVM, returned to live a triumphal night with the consecration of two other projects: hidden and armor. “I am happy with what I do and enjoyed by joining people in special projects,” proclaimed the chef on one of the occasions he took the stage.
Hidden, in Vila Do Conde, it is a project that has developed with Hugo Rocha. Blind, in Porto, is the one who has driven Rita Magro, who in just one year has gone from being recognized as the best young chef to obtain his first star. Although reaching the top has been a “long and hard path,” leaning lean when they took the stage. The armor’s proposal is inspired by the, and was prepared by Víctor Matos during the centenary of the birth of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022. Customers ignore the menu they will taste and, to reinforce the sensory experience, eat with a bandage in the eyes.
Marlene Vieira and Rita Magro are not the first distinguished chefs, since Michelin recognized with a star Alice Marto’s family in Coimbra (Tia Alice) between 1993 and 1996. Since then, women had disappeared from the palmarés of the gastronomic guide. The presence of female chefs continues to enter droppers. The final photo of the 35 new recommended restaurants for this year was illustrative of this: among all the distinguished ones only two women had been included, who participated in projects with male colleagues.
he lived a bittersweet gala. Enchantment, its vegetarian restaurant, received a green star, which adds to the Michelin star who already had the establishment, but still does not receive the third star for Belcanto.
They premiered with a star, in addition to Blind, Marlene and Hidden, three restaurants from Lisbon: Grenache, of the Frenchman Philippe Gelfi, the vegetarian Arkhe of João Ricardo Alves, the Japanese Yoso de Habner Gomes opened less than a year ago that he opened Em 2024 . Vinha, by Henrique Sá Pessoa and Jonathan Seiller, in Vila Nova de Gaia.
The prize for the best young chef was for José Diogo Costa, of the William restaurant, at the Belmond Reid’s Palace hotel, in Funchal, on the island of Madeira, while Marc Pinto, by Fifty Seconds (Lisbon), won the award for the best sommelier for the best sommelier .
