Opening a bottle with: the French co-founders of Lisbon’s MOGA Festival
Quizzed on how best to assimilate a new culture, travel writer and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain once uttered the famous line: “Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.” I never met the man, but still I miss him and his deft writing. The Opening a Bottle series is about getting pickled with people far cooler than I am, in whatever city I’ve washed up in. An incredulously cloudy spring day in Lisbon. I’m sitting on a low sofa at Go A Lisboa, one of the city’s glitziest new rooftop spaces, with panoramic views of the majestic Pont de 25 Abril bridge. It joins the legion of high spec bars and dinner spots popping up weekly in this ever-changing city — which is pulling crowds like never before.
