Born and raised Portuguese, food has always been a centerpiece in our lives. It brings together family, friends and communities all around the table, celebrating food as a part of our cultural identity.
As longtime friends and foodies, every time we travel around the world, we try to learn the most of that country´s culture and culinary traditions, so we often enrolled in cooking classes. One thing we noticed was the joy of everyone while cooking! The classes were very good and instructional, but what made us do more and more of them were the emotions generated and shared around a table, transverse to people with such different backgrounds.
On one of our travels, the idea hit us! Portugal has such a rich gastronomy deeply connected with its history, based on a wide variety of flavors and ingredients regionally dispersed, so why don’t we create a concept of our own adapted to our culture and customs? So, we came back to Portugal and started working on it. With our combined knowledge of food and business we created a plan, we executed it, and Compadre Cooking School was born.