The SouthCoast simply wrapped up its festa season, however the celebration of Portuguese tradition and delicacies continues with a highlight by a well known journey magazine.
Fall River and New Bedford— particularly the Portuguese neighborhood — garnered some well-deserved reward just lately from Condé Nast Traveler in its sequence dubbed A Place on the Table, which highlights “diasporic enclaves around the world through their cuisines.”
An Aug. 15 article shared this previous weekend via Instagram explores the culinary traditions of the Portuguese neighborhood in Southern Massachusetts, “a hub of festas, food, and family.”
CN Traveler author Nathan Tavares — who was born in Fall River and grew up in Somerset — factors out that Fall River, which he describes as a “small city of about 94,000 people,” is jokingly thought-about the tenth island of the Azores on account of its ethnic make-up wherein 46% of the town’s inhabitants claims Portuguese ancestry.
Portugalia Marketplace in Fall River Friday November 22, 2024.
What Condé Nast Traveler mentioned about SouthCoast feasts
In his journey via Spindle City and past, the author heaps reward on our native competition favorites, and a handful of eating places and markets in Fall River’s “close-knit diaspora community.”
“It’s easy to wander through the area’s Portuguese bakeries, markets, and restaurants without hearing a stitch of English,” the article notes.
The author’s travels started on the annual St. Michael’s Parish feast in Fall River, as volunteers adorned the streets for his or her procession and prepped open-fire grills to cook dinner up scrumptious Portuguese marinated meats – with shoutouts to feast staples corresponding to bifanas, grilled chouriço, stewed fava beans, caçoila and the a lot sought-after malassada treats.
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He additionally highlighted the various native Portuguese festivals, together with the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament in New Bedford, which has been celebrated for over a century. This occasion attracts a whole bunch of 1000’s of holiday makers to the world to expertise the colourful tradition, scrumptious food, and energetic festivities of Madeira.
SouthCoast Portuguese food scene: From Portugalia to Café Europa
His tour additionally included a cease at Portugalia Marketplace on Bedford Street, which, in fact, included a highlight on its “white-tiled, gleaming temperature-controlled room brimming with salt cod.”
The author spoke with proprietor Michael Benevides about efforts to bridge the hole between Fall River’s Portuguese previous and current, which has helped draw clients from properly past southeastern Massachusetts and outdoors the Portuguese neighborhood.
A pair benefit from the music on the 2025 Feast of the Blessed Sacrament in New Bedford, within the background a standard Madeiran home.
One iconic Fall River construction additionally obtained a Condé Nast nod, in addition to the thriving Luso food scene in cities huge and small which might be “revisiting traditional flavors with a modern lens.”
“There are landmarks like Fall River’s City Gates Plaza, which features a monument that mimics the medieval triple gates in the capital of the Azores, but always there are places to taste this heritage, for the homesick and those entirely new to the cuisine,” the article reads.
For these impressed to take a Portuguese food tour, the article factors readers to The Clipper on South Main Street, which “serves a stellar shrimp Mozambique.”
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Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse and members of his Emeril Group group visited Sagres Restaurant in Fall River on Saturday to pattern their Portuguese delicacies.
It additionally provides nod to some native eating places Fall River-born celeb chef Emeril Lagasse dined at during his April 2024 trip to the SouthCoast: Sagres Restaurant on Columbia Street, a “comforting yet upscale restaurant in the heart of the city” that’s a go-to for conventional Portuguese steak.
It famous that Lagasse additionally researched the Portuguese delicacies at Café Europa in New Bedford in preparation for the opening of his new New Orleans restaurant. Where Tavares instructed readers, “With a little luck, you’ll find grilled octopus on the daily special menu.”
Praise was seen for Antonio’s in New Bedford for serving beneficiant parts of their pork Alentejana, which consists of sautéed pork, fried potatoes, and littlenecks. It is claimed that the dish is massive sufficient to feed two individuals.
Portugalia and Chaves Market are additionally amongst their must-try Fall River spots.
Condé Nast Traveler shares the candy facet of Fall River: malassadas
Condé Nast Traveler is a life-style and journey magazine specializing in luxurious and high-end experiences worldwide from Paris to Peru. But this isn’t the primary time Fall River and Portuguese delicacies has appeared in its pages.
Fall River was spotlighted in an article on the 50 best desserts in all 50 states. For Massachusetts, Tavares, who’s a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, contributed an ode to malassadas, saying they are a staple of Portuguese festas however giving a particular shoutout to Barcelos bakery on Bedford Street.
“Grab a few napkins, yes, but know that the mustache of sugar is inevitable and a little mess is more than worth it for the bliss of devouring the still-warm yeasted dough brightened by a bit of lemon zest,” he writes.
This article initially appeared on The Herald News: Condé Nast shines spotlight on SouthCoast Portuguese community