Lisbon: Groceries Alentejo, o Alentejo in the strip-a-strips
In Alvalade, one of the oldest and chic neighborhoods of Lisbon, the good old way, the grocery Alentejo sells the best that is produced in the Alentejo.
In a cross-, Street Acacio Paiva, the bustling Avenue Church, showed in larga, black awnings, with letters in white and a triangular poster of wood and slate on the sidewalk to advertise the products of the day, found the grocery Alentejo.
Its great connection and passion for Alentejo, first by the wife's family indeed be de Moura, then by his links to the land, as a farmer in Vila Verde Ficalho, led AntĂłnio Neves, to invest in opening the shop. Antonio came back in time to the beginnings of neighborhood trade and the old grocery stores and there arises the first name, then the exclusivity of products from In-Tejo, the remaining gave identity to the store.
There are about nine months AntĂłnio invested and created Groceries Alentejo. As customers say, Alentejo or Lisbon: "Alentejo, there is everything as the pharmacy ".
Wines, filled, alleged, head xara, bread, cheeses, curd, olive oil, vinegar, olives, candies, jams, as in Ovibeja, Groceries fit in "All the Alentejo this World". Until the meat has "stamped". The Carnalentejana (DOP) arrive the tastes of young sheepmeat, beef and pork.
Great connoisseur of Alentejo, of its people and the best producers, this "Alentejo aperfilhado", makes reaching Lisbon, the best that can. Green Village Ficalho Portalegre, VidĂgueira the MĂ©rtola, of Alcáçovas Moura, through Serpa and Elvas, an authentic "Alentejo from end-to-les".
"There are crazy for everything", defines Antonio Neves, your investment. "It was a lot ?. If we have little money, it is very, if we have any, is relative, is like a passion ", thus reveals the entrepreneur your bet.
Lover of fine wines and varied cuisine Alentejo, "Customers like the products for their quality and authenticity", adding that the first "taste" and "taste paid and buy", says smiling.
Despite the crisis, Antonio Neves, is a man "satisfied", because "the Alentejo is fashionable" and then the "organization and quality" of all the products at the grocery, "Capture the attention and the palates of visitors", ends.
Always look in the Alentejo, do not lose a fair of regional products, that takes place in Lisbon or surroundings, "I am present in all. I Try, taste, I buy ", is one of the keys to success.
To stoke the taste for Alentejo products, Antonio Neves, performs monthly food tasting and wine, and cup in one hand and a loaf of bread with cheese "if do Alentejo".
Grace Santos, the maid, graceful girl, light and good foot lines, Groceries makes one "place of worship". "I started to go on holiday, now I do and love the food. The Alentejo is already for me a passion ", ends. And given another client Grace shoots: "A boiled beans is something superb", concludes.
Completed by interview, the journalist there was street below, smelling chickens and Church Avenue of grilled meat, but filled with the direction in Moura, Ficalho the bread and wine VidĂgueira.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
