The Board of Directors of Historic Cafés Route approved on January 16th the applications of 11 Historic Cafés of Portugal that are joining HCR as new members. The 11 Cafés…
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This café from 1953 is inspired by the Portuguese conquering of the city of Ceuta, in the north of Africa. Its architect, Carlos Neves, wanted to follow the trend of creating different light effects, and for that he used a system of lamp shades. The cafe was known to be frequented by ministers and other…
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With its crystal chandelier and bronze sculpture, the Aviz Tea Room was born in 1947 right in the Downtown of the city of Porto. This was the period immediately following the Second World War. Then in the 1960s and 1970s, the Café Aviz became one of the reference cafés for university students, helped by the…
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Luís Machado, Secretary-General of the Portuguese Writers Association, becomes an HCR Member (Video)
We met Luís Machado at the Café Santa Cruz in Coimbra during the seminar of this emblematic Café, jointly organized by the Portuguese Association of the Historic Cafés and the…
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Coming from a family of French bakers and canners, Elie Benard settled in Lisbon with his parents and siblings, in the mid-19th century, and on Rua do Loreto, he opened a Café - Bakery Franceza, inaugurated on 6 September 1868.
It was here that “the Lisbon public” found “excellent fine bread” and “all kinds of biscuits”,…
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