For The Love Of Port

Update on some restaurants in Lisbon including a short interview with José Avillez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAcY2E1cMDc&t=618s

An interesting piece. I note in particular Avillez's assertion that ten to fifteen percent of restaurants have failed already, and his view that another fifteen percent will go under by the end of this year owing to their inability to maintain existing debt loads now that such government subsidies as there were have ceased. A sprinkling of tourists started to (re)appear in Lisbon last week, though the still-onerous-for-the-time-being requirements to enter Portugal (i.e., RT-PCR tests), combined generally with the need for another test to get home, are serving to keep tourist numbers low at a point in the season when the city should already be filled with foreigners.

Those numbers seems to mesh with my observations here in Colorado. I've been to a couple of Avillez's restaurants. Good food at both, mediocre service at one.