Produce first, menu second
The menu changes when the ingredients do. We write it around what the farms and fishermen bring in, not the other way around.
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Why people keep coming back
The terrace in summer
Our garden terrace seats 34 and faces west. On a clear July evening you get the kind of light that makes everything taste better.
Portuguese wine, taken seriously
Our list is 90% Portuguese, with a focus on smaller producers from the Douro, Alentejo, and Setubal peninsula. Most bottles are under 35 euros.
News & Announcements
News & Announcements
2026-06-28
How to order fish in a Portuguese restaurant
Most visitors to Portugal read the word 'peixe do dia' on a menu and assume it is a marketing phrase. It is not. In a restaurant that is buying from a harbour market each morning, the fish of the day is genuinely different from yesterday's fish, which was different from the day before. Here is how to read what is on offer and why it matters.
Read more →2026-05-14
Caldeirada: the dish behind the dish
Caldeirada is the dish that confuses tourists and satisfies locals. It looks simple. Fish, potatoes, tomatoes, olive oil. And it is, in the sense that good cooking is always simple underneath the technique. But the decisions made before the pot goes on the heat are where the dish lives or dies.
Read more →2026-04-09
A beginner's guide to Portuguese wine regions
Portugal has more native grape varieties than France. Most people who drink wine regularly do not know this, because Portuguese wine spent decades being sold abroad as cheap and cheerful. That has changed. The regions worth knowing now are genuinely interesting, and the prices have not yet caught up with the quality in most of them.
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Who we are, plainly
Margarida Fonseca
Founder, Established since 2017
Margarida Fonseca grew up in Setubal and spent her twenties cooking in Lisbon, starting on the line at a brasserie in Chiado before moving to a hotel restaurant in Sintra as sous-chef. When that restaurant closed in 2015, she spent a year eating her way around Portugal's interior, keeping notes in a blue notebook she still has. In March 2017 she opened Cupola Plus in a former hardware shop in Cascais, doing the renovation herself on weekends. She writes the menu every Tuesday morning, drinks Vinho Verde with fish without apology, and has not owned a television since 2012.