The sea and travelling are Portuguese culture and identity fundamentals. Portuguese People have always sought the unknown and the adventure to transcend our limits.
This journey has cultural, political and mystical aspects, all of them human, with their lights and shadows. New paths were forged, creating a global world and a new collective destiny that also resulted in new culture, born from the many encounters by sea, between the West and the East.
It is a human expression that goes beyond literature, architecture and music. It is a culture that is imprinted in the gastronomy of travel, marked by the spice routes and many other ingredients, as well as by the unexpected encounters between fruits and flavors.
Welcome to MAPA. Here, we seek to celebrate and translate this wide gastronomic culture, born from our sea voyages, offering a new expedition each season.
Chef Miguel Laffan takes the lead at MAPA, recently awarded a Michelin star. This return to L’AND and MAPA marks a reunion with a place where the Chef worked between 2011 and 2019, building a deep connection with the territory, the team, and the project’s gastronomic identity.
Miguel Laffan believes that only through relentless research, combined with determination and rigor, can culinary excellence be achieved. For him, the freshness of ingredients is as important as the mental freshness of those who transform them. This balance is his key reference. He reinterprets the roots of Portuguese gastronomic culture in a contemporary way, blending flavors and influences from his travels around the world, incorporating secret and exotic ingredients.
MAPA’s new phase is developed in close collaboration with Sub-Chef Carlos Galhardas, Pedro Pinho, and David Pincante.
Sub-Chef Carlos Galhardas joined Chef Miguel Laffan’s team in 2011. Technique, rigor, precision, and respect for the product are the pillars of his work.
Chef Miguel Laffan thus continues a journey that has established MAPA as a space for the contemporary interpretation of Portuguese cuisine, celebrating national identity at the table, reimagined through the lens of the maritime journeys that shaped our culture.
Café da Viagem
Wine Bar, Terrace & Lake Deck
There’s Fondouk in Magreb, sarai in India, and “Café da Viagem” at L’AND Vineyards. Inspired by the sea routes to Asia, the Café invites travellers to other distant harbours.
With an outstanding view to the garden and the lake, contemporary fusion gastronomy, signature cocktails and a wine list representing the rich diversity of the region, as well as the rest of the world.
Café da Viagem is the place to just sit back, relax and let the world go by before you.
