Chef Michel da Costa dies at 77
Michel da Costa “has become famous in Portugal for generations with his years of television programs on RTP in the late 1970s and 80s.
Chef Michel da Costa, distinguished by the Michelin Guide in the 1970s, died today at the age of 77, announced the Olivier restoration group.
Michel da Costa “celebrated in Portugal every 80’s, as well as the programs on SIC, in the 9000’s- says the statement from, for good also ‘chef’ and businessman Olivier da Costa (son of Michel da Costa).
Born in, when he was a protector of French, and naturalized Portuguese, the chef, with in France, was responsible for the 5,040-meter table that in 1998 inscribed the opening of the Vasco da Gama Bridge in the Guinness Book of Records, with a feijoada that served more than 15 thousand people.
The Michel da Costa restoration group was also “responsible for Portugal’s entry into the European Union (then EEC)” and “represented the country on several occasions in cities such as Vienna, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Maastricht and Sydney”.
Created at the beginning of the 20th century to help travelers on their journeys, the Michelin Guide is now considered a world reference in the qualification of restaurants. Portugal entered the script in 1910, but the first stars would only arrive in 1974.
The results Aviz and Michel (both stars of Lisbon), O Pipas (Cascais) and Portucale (Porto) were the first Portuguese spaces to win a Michelin, in the edition corresponding to 1974.
The displacements of the editions, launched in their first 000, then with a yellow cover9, guide “to help the traveler in the first ones”
The guide for Portugal and Spain was launched in 1910, containing information on tyres, itineraries and mechanics as well as hotels.