Chiado

The story

Crafted with passion, served with love

The Best of Portugal, Served in Macao

At Chiado, inside The Londoner Macao, two-Michelin-starred chef Henrique Sá Pessoa makes a compelling case that you don't need to fly to Lisbon for exceptional Portuguese cuisine. With eight restaurants across Portugal and abroad, Sá Pessoa is one of the defining figures of modern Portuguese cooking — and Chiado is his Macao statement.

The chef's guiding philosophy is what he calls "tasteful cuisine": refined taste, perfect technique, and excellent produce. Every dish is authentically prepared to let premium ingredients speak for themselves, then presented with quiet elegance.

Dishes That Earn Their Recognition

Forbes Travel Guide awarded Chiado a Four-Star rating for 2026 — recognition that holds up dish by dish. The roasted octopus appetizer is slow-roasted and served with a traditional Portuguese caldeirada sauce, its depth sharpened by miso and romesco in a confident blend of Mediterranean and Japanese technique.

The "Cobblestreet" salted cod — an inventive reading of bacalhau à brás — layers thin cod slices, egg yolk, shredded potatoes, and onion purée to evoke Lisbon's cobbled streets. It's assembled tableside, making the presentation as considered as the flavors. The monkfish and lobster rice goes further still: grilled lobster with peri-peri sauce meets monkfish finished with a pil-pil emulsion drawn from the collagen of the fish's own head — a technique that rewards attention.

For meat, the slow-cooked suckling pig belly — ten hours of preparation, finished a la plancha for crackling skin — arrives with a classic pepper sauce. To close, a rice custard topped with cauliflower and lemon caramel rewards those who push their spoon to the bottom of the bowl.

The Costa a Costa ("Coast to Coast") degustation menu distills Sá Pessoa's signature style into a full seafood-led progression, available alongside a curated Portuguese wine pairing. The wine cellar itself has drawn a Wine Spectator "Best of Award of Excellence" and two glasses from China's Wine List of the Year Awards 2025.

The Room and the Experience

Service at Chiado is warm and attentive without formality for its own sake. The dress code is smart casual — long trousers and covered shoes for gentlemen — and the setting suits an evening that moves at its own pace. A private dining room is available for smaller groups or families with young children.

The Michelin Guide Hong Kong and Macao 2026 lists Chiado as a selected restaurant, adding to a record that also includes recognition from the South China Morning Post's 100 Top Tables and Trip.com Group Gourmet Gold. The accolades reflect a consistent kitchen, not a flash in the pan.