Press and Awards
Press and awards — Mãe Restaurante
Since 2018 Mãe has been recognised in competitions and guides, and visited by people who write about food. We have gathered it all in one place — each entry linking to the original source, for anyone who wants to check.
Awards
The plaques all hang by the entrance. You can see them when you come.
Guia Repsol Restaurant 2026
Mãe is one of the restaurants recommended by Guia Repsol in Portugal.
See our listing on Guia Repsol- Restaurant Guru2026
Recommended
- Lisboa à Prova2024/2025
Traditional Portuguese Cuisine — 1 Superior Fork
Gastronomic competition run by Lisbon City Council with AHRESP and Turismo de Lisboa.
- Lisboa à Prova2023/2024
Traditional Portuguese Cuisine — 2 Forks
- Lisboa à Prova2022
Traditional Portuguese Cuisine — 2 Forks
- Restaurant Guru2021
Recommended
- Lisboa à Prova2019
Traditional Portuguese Cuisine
- Tripadvisor2019
Certificate of Excellence
- Lisboa à Prova2018
Traditional Portuguese Cuisine
Beyond the restaurant
Chefs on Fire Cascais
2026The festival's eighth edition, in Cascais, on 19 and 20 September. The chef cooked on the Saturday alongside names such as Tiago Bonito, José Lopes and Vasco Coelho Santos, among more than forty chefs.
Chefs on Fire Aveiro
2025At Parque Infante D. Pedro on 19 July, as part of the Festival dos Canais. The chef cooked the day's vegetarian dish — bimi curry with cashew and purslane — a creative reading of Portuguese cooking.
Chefs on Fire Santarém
2024The first edition in Santarém, at Jardim das Portas do Sol — the chef's home ground. He cooked with Alexandre Silva, Rodrigo Castelo and Filipe Manhita, around a 90 m² fire pit.
Chefs on Fire — New Year's Eve
2023Chefs on Fire's New Year's Eve night, with Disque Disse. Twelve guest chefs, among them Hugo Brito, Vítor Adão and David Jesus.
Four hands with chef Noélia Jerónimo
2023Chef Noélia Jerónimo came up from the Algarve to cook at Mãe in January, a six-course menu cooked four hands. Lunch sold out within 24 hours.
In the press
Articles and listings published by third parties, most recent first.
- Postal · 6 January 2023Chef Noélia Jerónimo vai cozinhar almoço e jantar no Mãe Restaurante em Lisboa
- O Mirante · 15 July 2021Restaurante de João Saloio é uma homenagem às mulheres da sua vida
- Time Out Lisboa · 8 March 2018Mãe — Cozinha com Amor
- Time Out LisboaMeninos, para a mesa: a comidinha da mamã está agora na Estefânia
- Correio da Manhã — DomingoO chef que exibe 345 fotografias de mães na parede
- FLASH! — The MagCozinha com amor e conforto pelas mãos dos «filhos da mãe»
- Guia RepsolMãe Cozinha Com Amor
- LifecoolerMãe — Cozinha com amor
- Portugal ConfidentialMãe — Cozinha com Amor, Lisbon
- Face Food MagMãe Cozinha com Amor
- Lisbon InsidersRestaurant Week — Mãe, Cozinha com Amor
- Assins & AssadosComo é que só agora descobri o Mãe — Cozinha com Amor?
For journalists
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