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Ricardo Felner looks back on his gastronomic 2025 and tells us about the lack of inspiration in the dishes he ate throughout the year. Could this be the trend for 2026, everything chocho?
We also have to take into account the economic factor: the Portuguese seem to be eating out less and less, and they no longer order as many bottles of wine with meals. But the owners seem to think otherwise: they say prices have to increase. Will we be able to eat out in 2026?
For Ricardo Felner, there is also another factor that contributed to 2025 not being a gastronomic surprise: large chains and franchises have always supplanted smaller restaurants.
With two or three tricks, everyone can make the best scrambled eggs in the world, the best French fries or the best steak. Sometimes, the difference between sublime food and bad food is just the amount of butter, the variety of potato or when we add salt to the steak.
Ricardo Dias Felner, journalist and gastronomic critic, is The Man Who Ate Everything and tells you everything about cooking and restaurants in Expresso’s tastiest podcast.
He started as a journalist at Público, where for 11 years he wrote about crime, justice, immigration and politics. He was the director of Time Out magazine and, nowadays, regularly collaborates with several publications, including Expresso, where he has written reports on some of the country’s most emblematic foods, from cod to barbecue chicken.
Every Thursday new episodes about cooking and restaurants. Because the difference between eating well and eating poorly can be a matter of information and because eating is so important, subscribe to this podcast on any podcast app or follow Ricardo Dias Felner’s project here on Expresso or SIC Notícias.
