SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - September 28: Owners Fernanda, left, and Carlos Carreira with chef David Costa, right, pose for a portrait inside Adega, their Portuguese restaurant in San Jose, Calif., on Sept. 28, 2021. The restaurant owners and the chef earned back the Michelin star that they won in 2016 but lost a couple of years later. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
The final December reservations are filling up for Adega, the Portuguese standout that became San Jose’s first-ever Michelin star honoree in 2016.
In July, owners Carlos and Fernanda Carreira announced the end-of-year closure of the acclaimed restaurant that opened in 2015 in the city’s Little Portugal neighborhood, with David Costa in the executive chef role then and now. They plan to transform the space into the second outlet of their more casual concept, Petiscos, which is located in downtown San Jose, in early 2024.
“We are so overwhelmed by the well-wishes and sincere sadness that so many have expressed,” Carlos Carreira said. “Many have even begged us not to close Adega, or at least not just yet. We tell them that we are simply ‘saving it up in the cloud’ (to use Silicon Valley tech language) and who knows what the future has for Adega? The brand and the business itself will remain active for the foreseeable future.”
Meantime, he said, “we are going to focus on expanding the Petiscos brand and we feel that as a small family business we can’t do both well.”
At Adega, two pre fixe tasting menus — five courses and seven courses — will be offered at Wednesday-Sunday dinner service this month, culminating in an 11-course tasting menu on New Year’s Eve.
Prepaid reservations are required. The nightly pre fixe menus are $150 and $199. Early-bird reservations for the Dec. 31 feast, $299, run from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Details: 1614 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose; www.adegarest.com for reservations.
Originally published at Linda Zavoral