Chef Miguel Rocha Vieira highlighted on Time Out Lisboa

Source: Time Out Lisboa

Miguel Rocha Vieira: “I was afraid of having my career at risk, but my name remained intact” - On television with 'Masterchef', Miguel Rocha Vieira is ready for a new challenge. The chef will enter the hospitality industry, through AHM – Ace Hospitality Management, and create gastronomic concepts for several hotels.

Miguel Rocha Vieira moved to Lisbon in 2022, challenged by Bernardo Delgado's Lean Man group, to take on the leadership of a project that promised to give new life to Doca da Marinha, on the riverfront next to Estação Sul and Sueste. He first opened the three kiosks and only then the restaurant, Anfíbio, from where he ended up being fired about half a year later , at the end of 2023, to everyone's surprise, including his own, having been replaced by Olivier da Costa.

Chef Miguel Rocha Vieira ll Source: Time Out Lisboa

Rocha Vieira turned the page with an even greater challenge at hand. Alongside Pierre-Olivier Petit, former director of Operations and F&B (Food and Beverage) at The Oitavos hotel, in Cascais, and, for the last five years, at the InterContinental group, the chef will redefine and create all the gastronomic concepts of hotels under the supervision of AHM – Ace Hospitality Management, a hotel management company that belongs to the Mercan Group, owner of the hotel units. Currently, there are eight units at stake, six of which are in Porto: Arts Hotel Porto; Company House; Fontinha Hotel; Renaissance Porto Lapa Hotel; Sé Catedral Hotel Porto; and Four Points By Sheraton Matosinhos. Under his responsibility, Casa Das Lérias, in Amarante, and the Hilton Garden Inn, in Évora, will also be located.

Making restaurants a destination beyond the hotel, serving the cities where they are located and their people, is the main objective, creating different brands and concepts, “of quality and at a fair price”, guarantees Miguel Rocha Vieira, full of ideas. There may be a fine dining restaurant, but also a pizzeria or a coffee shop. Of the ten restaurants, five bars and two rooftops, the chef points to the first new additions for March, all in the North. And three new hotels are also planned for this year, in Porto, Évora and Beja. 

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