Brazil star Alberto Landgraf to open first restaurant in London

One of Brazil’s most celebrated chefs, Alberto Landgraf, is opening a restaurant in London later this year – his first outside his home country. 

The restaurant, called Bossa, will be ‘fun and relaxed’ and will take over a space beneath the Brazilian embassy, just off Oxford Street. Alberto’s Rio de Janeiro restaurant Oteque was awarded two Michelin stars since opening in 2018, and came in at number 47 in this year’s World’s 50 Best restaurants. 

‘I am really happy that my first international project is going to happen in London. It is very emotional for me as I started my career twenty-two years ago in this city’, Alberto said in a statement. 

‘I never thought I would come back where everything started to open my own restaurant’.  

The chef cut his teeth in London kitchens, under both Tom Aikens and Gordon Ramsay, and has become a huge name in Brazil since moving back – arguably the biggest in Brazilian fine dining since Alex Atala, chef-patron of São Paulo’s D.O.M., put Amazonian ingredients on the culinary map. 

Oteque draws on Aberto’s Japanese heritage and European training, applying both to native Brazilian ingredients and fresh seafood caught in the bays of Rio. 

‘It seems like a wild dream to bring Brazil not only to London but to Europe. I want to make it really special, so I will bring to the city the best part of my Oteque team’, Alberto added.  

‘As you can imagine, it will not be a traditional place, but it will also not be the second Oteque. We will pamper you with contemporary Brazilian food and a very strong wine and cocktail list in a fun, relaxed, warm atmosphere and I really hope you will enjoy it.’ 

Bossa is set to open before the end of the year, a spokesperson for Alberto said.