It is often said that everything has “a principle, a half and an end” and the time has come for another Portuguese restaurant to end its doors once and for all. With eight years of existence and to be one of the greatest references of Lusa gastronomy at San Francisco Bay, California, the restaurant that even obtained a Michelin recommendation will continue to serve dishes until March 29.
The restaurant is called “a house” and what is certain is that the space was for eight years the “house” of the many Portuguese who are living in San Francisco, United States.
The traditional Portuguese cuisine crossed the Atlantic and it was in this restaurant that the emigrants killed some of the longing of their country. On the other hand, the “one house” also gave Americans the opportunity to know our gastronomy.
“It no longer makes sense to be open”
A, owner and cooking Antelmo Faria explains that the end of the cycle is due to the current situation of economics and inflation. “The economy, the cost of doing business is increasing, the business is diminishing and reaches a certain point that no longer makes sense to be open,” explained Antelmo Faria in statements to the same source.
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However, the chief of cooking goes further and in more detail what is at the source of the closing of his space in San Francisco. “If they advance with customs dates, cod will be triple the price I had paid for three years,” he reveals.
Summing to increased cod prices and other food products also rises “costs of maintaining employees” due to the increase in the minimum wage.
The end will be “happy”
Although 2024 was “a bad year” for the “a house”, since the closing of the restaurant that “the reserve book has been filling” and the nights are moved. “The last day will come to the last day and a dignified way for a restaurant that served your community during these years,” says the owner of the space.
It is goodbye to Portuguese restaurants in São Francisco
It is certain that the “one house” ends doors on March 29 and from that day San Francisco no longer has any Portuguese restaurant. However, there are more spaces dedicated to national cuisine in California.
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