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Restaurante Taberna Anti-Dantas Lisboa
Restaurante Taberna Anti-Dantas Lisboa

Almada Negreiros was 22 years old when he wrote the Anti-Dantas Manifesto. It was 1915 and Almada wrote it in an ironic and scathing tone, attacking an entire generation that Júlio Dantas personified and that was conservative in artistic matters and defender of classical and romantic aesthetic canons. One hundred years later, Filipe Nabais, an admirer of the text that marked the modernist movement of the early 20th century, turned it into a tavern on Rua São José, right next to Avenida da Liberdade.

"It was only from the name that I began to deconstruct the rest of the story", the restaurant, which is a tavern, is also a prominent living installation that tells the story of the past that gave rise to the manifesto. The walls are covered with magazines from the first quarter of the 20th century, with articles written before and after 1915. Filipe is a collector of period magazines and the first wall took him three and a half months to assemble, because there is a logic in the way they are arranged, mirroring what the beginning of the 20th century represented and which Filipe chooses as "the most fascinating chronological period of all the political and cultural movements that have taken place in this country". It is a place of stories - to listen to them and to tell them -,

and where aesthetics take over the house without being ashamed of having political sensibilities. Throughout the space, history is told through images and objects. And in the kitchen, it was deconstructed in an ethnographic way, reinterpreting traditional dishes such as codfish cakes in custard tart dough. At number 196 on Rua São José, the city is celebrated in a gathering mode, and that, "Enough is enough".

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