Chef
RUI MARTINS

A need to do, live and see it happening.

With a lively, attentive look, a sonorous laughter and a restless posture, of who is always ready for the action, and very hardly it is silent, quiet in its corner. Even when you want to go unnoticed, emanates an energy so strong that it is always noticed.

The detail is essential to understand your personality, as it manifests itself in everything in your life. A strong spirit, always feeling that life is meant to be lived intensely, roll up your sleeves, "putting your hands in the dough" without the fear of getting dirty. And at work, if a seemingly unavoidable obstacle arises, it is also the one who, with fervent passion, lays his hands on the work to solve the situation.

Active and instinctive temperament.

I am excited about adversity; little afraid of the risks or the obstacles that could hold my way. Emotive, anxious and extroverted, which translates into a constant need for action and impatience, aspects that are compensated by a positive attitude towards life. It continues to work hard on an objective to evolve, grow and try to do more and better.

My cuisine is inspired in different regions of our country and in trips that I make, in the use of diverse techniques. It is a cuisine of contrasts, of various influences with a rather defined course to achieve my goal of "cooking to be happy". It is a kitchen influenced by all my experiences. I can call my kitchen a “strong flavor”, with its own character and very generated from the various products that I use.

One of the great concerns of a cook resides in the "signature" that he intends to leave, that is, to find his way, a style of cooking that distinguishes him from the others. To think… I think every day of cooking, of evolving, of being better tomorrow than I was today. Innovating for me is doing differently than I did. Attitude, work, rigor and perseverance.

The training has to be constant, who does not seek... hardly finds.