Nelson Carvalheiro

29/08/2024

They come here for the leftovers…

20/07/2024

Details of my photoshoot for and my good friend .

📍Palato Restaurante , Matosinhos

14/06/2024

Stills from my latest assignment for VanityRate at the

19/03/2024

Cheers to the equinox! 🌎

📍Torre de Palma Hotel

07/03/2024

Thrilled to announce another 3 nominations for my Lactaçores film 🏆🏆🏆

Big thanks to film festival in Berlin, and 15 Minutes of Fame film festival in Florida for officially selecting my work out of the hundreds of submissions.

Fingers crossed for the awards ceremony later this year 🤞

Link for my LactAçores film in the bio :)

22/02/2024

In Lisbon with the talented .chitnis for the launch of her incredible book Paterns of Portugal .

08/02/2024

Cavalariça Évora is an exquisite restaurant where art is present, not only in the decoration, but in the menu as well. Housed within Évora’s cultural hub, the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval, Cavalariça seeks to showcase the best of Alentejo cuisine with a modern and arty twist. Chef ‘s creations stretch the fabric the flavours of Alentejo, bringing them into the realm of aesthetics and visual appeal. Traditional flavours like rabbit escabeche are served with mini taco tortillas and the earthiness of a the mushrooms is topped with caramelised barley seedlings. But fear not, as the deep flavours of Alentejo’s cuisine are all there. The team are all youngsters and not only from Portugal, but Japan and Chile as well, which gives the restaurant an even more international feel within Alentejo.

07/02/2024

Cheers my friends ❤️🇵🇹😋

19/01/2024

The best thing about is that it’s just a bunch of kids, ABSOLUTELY CRUSHING IT when it comes to Portuguese Cuisine. Although the presentation is borderline fine dinning, the rustic traditional flavours is the Portuguese land and Sea are all there! They showed up in numbers and it’s incredible that a group of 20 years old are able to deliver such high quality cuisine, specially when the Avô Miquinhas restaurant is only a couple of months old.

Kudos to the kids :)

15/01/2024

🇵🇹Portugal is special ❤️

I have dedicated most of my professional life promoting this beautiful, marvelous, one-of-a-kind destination.

Having repeatedly travelled across the whole of Portugal to documents its food and wine, I have had the fortune to witness and live the REAL PORTUGAL!

You know what I constantly find?

Kind folks…Warm embraces…But most of all Pride!

People proud of their bifanas, of their seafood cataplanas, of their pastéis, of their wines, of their heritage…Pride for Portugal!

This is the essence of my work: to make the whole world aware of just how incredibly amazing Portugal is…

Not only to visit, but to live, to start a business, to grow a family…

To enjoy life, as its meat to be lived!

I am proud to be Portuguese…and I plan to keep doing my job regardless of all the recent abuse telling me to stop :(

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13/01/2024

is not just a restaurant, Gaveto is a reference in traditional Portuguese gastronomy. After 40 years of constantly elevating traditional Portuguese food to its highest levels, Manuel Pinheiro (owner) has handed the management of Gaveto over to his sons, José Manuel and João Carlos. However, in the kitchen, the same chefs remain. The same chefs to whom traditional Portuguese cuisine is a religion, rather than an occupation. Their dishes, always based on the essence and simplicity of traditional Portuguese cuisine, helped create the legend of the “fish and seafood sanctuary” Gaveto is famous for. I had scallops and lobster açorda, something to die for... literally!

📍Gaveto, Matosinhos

03/01/2024

HOORAY , I won another award 🏆 🥳🎉‼️

My LactAçores milk comercial won the Best Commercial and Advertisement award at the Castle Film Media Awards in Rome, Italy .

It’s award #4 for this film and the best way to start 2024!

🤞Fingers crossed, more will come!

A big hug to all of you and Happy New Year 🥳

15/12/2023

Yey!!! Another laurel for my LactAçores film:))))

I want to share the exciting news that my LactAcores film has been official selected by the Film Festival in Moscow.

Thank you to and the members of the jury for such honour:) Fingers crossed and see you in Moscow soon🤞

01/12/2023

In love with Monsaraz 🇵🇹❤️🏰

22/11/2023

Exited to announce that my LactAçores milk commercial just won the Best Commercial and Advertising award at the Cine Paris Film Festival (.paris)!

I would like to thank the jury for selecting my work and thank all of you for your incredible support!

Um forte Abraço to all of you my friends ❤️🇵🇹

08/11/2023

08/11/2023

November marks the beginning of olive harvest season in Alentejo. Much like wine, Alentejo olive oil is a sought after commodity. Its more recent notoriety in restaurants and homes across northen Europe has given the established Spanish, Italian and Greek competitors a run for their money. I spent a day with Antonio at his olive press , close to Marvão in north Alentejo. Here, far away from the bright lights of the Northern European supermarkets, olives are picked by hand, and cold pressed on the same day. These people never heard of refined olive oil, for them the normal is what we call virgin olive oil. It is not golden, it is almost green, fresh and peppery. Experiencing this reality makes me want to laugh at the fools who are impressed and buy olive oil wrapped in golden bottles at the supermarket. Save your money, buy a trip to Portugal and get a 5 litre jug which will should last you 2 years.

27/10/2023

I spoke too soon… my LactAçores film won another award - 2nd prize in Environment and Ecology! 🌍

Super Super happy for the amazing recognition!