[Press invite] Mira Mira by Ricardo Costa: A Rising Star in Porto’s Culinary Scene — Lucie Loves

Languishing stylishly upstairs on the World of Wine Porto, in Vila Nova de Gaia, Chef Ricardo Costa’s second signature restaurant, Mira Mira, affords diners dazzling views throughout the Douro River (you should definitely ask for a desk by the window and sit again and watch golden hour flip from nightfall to darkness) – while savouring course after course of a rigorously ready seasonal menu that can make many a mouth water.

If you understand me in any respect by now, you’ll get that I’m a hopeless romantic — and an actual sucker for nice temper lighting. Yep – actual candles, a cunningly curated playlist that units your pulse racing and an ambient relaxed environment.  Mira Mira’s deliberate design bathes diners in a heat pink glow (suppose: late September skies) —its easy but luxurious tables are luxuriously spaced for privateness and provides this restaurant one other uniquely decadent tick within the field. I’ll admit, when the waitress identified the small boucle clad stool positioned discretely to the left of my chair – whose sole objective on this world was to carry my purse – my coronary heart swooned! Now THIS was a contact of luxurious!

As winner of not one however two Michelin stars, Chef Ricardo Costa made a aware resolution to make his Mira Mira restaurant extra relaxed than its sibling, The Yeatman, besides… as eating experiences go… it’s nonetheless extremely refined and memorable. All the things from the way in which we had been greeted felt heat, unrushed, and relaxed, but subtle and particular.