Chef Murilo Lima @Thyme.porto
Private Chef in Porto
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A love story told through food: Michelin-trained skill, family legacy, and a shared passion for serving others.
Hi! I am Murilo, a graduate in Gastronomy, started cooking as a boy beside his father, the person who first put a knife in his hands. Losing his father as a teenager was the hardest moment of his life, but it became the reason he never left the kitchen: cooking is how he keeps his father's memory alive today. I went on to train under Alex Atala, Brazil's most celebrated chef, at D.O.M., and later cooked at The Yeatman in Vila Nova de Gaia, both 2-Michelin-starred kitchens and worked on board cruise ship around the world meeting countries, culturies, people, spices and foods. Today i live keeping on for the kitchen, cooking with a French technical base and deep expertise in French, Italian, Mediterranean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Brazilian cuisine, as well as fusion and our mine signature, authorial dishes. What i do best is bring love for cooking, to every table we serve.
More about me
For me, cooking is...
Cooking is a love language, the way i care for my family's memory and for everyone i welcome to my food.
I learned to cook at...
I trained with great chefs, studied cookbooks by Marc Pierre White, Jamie Oliver, completed basic and advanced courses at Le Cordon Bleu London.
A cooking secret...
Blending French technique with Italian, Mediterranean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Brazilian soul into our own authorial, fusion cuisine.
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