Pastéis de nata - those delicious Portuguese custard tarts - can now be found, freshly baked in the centre of Hammersmith.
Made to head chef Lucio's secret recipe, Café de Nata produce a perfectly crisp flaky pastry and creamy smooth custard filling that will brighten your day and ruin your diet.
Proprietor Diogo Esteves hopes to make the pastel de nada a popular treat in the UK - just as it is in Portugal and many other parts of the world.
They are really delicious and go well with Café de Nata's excellent coffee. So he appears to have a very good chance of doing that.
Pastéis de nata were first baked at the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Lisbon. But in 1834 the monastery closed. Three years later, after having purchased the monk's recipe, the Antiga Confeitaria de Belém took over. They've been making them ever since. In 2009, The Guardian was so taken with these delicacies, it urged people to visit Belém in an article titled: The 50 best things to eat in the world and where to eat them. But as the Facebook reviews of Café de Nata say, you can save yourself the journey and enjoy perfectly fresh, warm pastéis de nada straight out of the oven in Hammersmith Broadway.
Made to head chef Lucio's secret recipe, Café de Nata produce a perfectly crisp flaky pastry and creamy smooth custard filling that will brighten your day and ruin your diet.
Proprietor Diogo Esteves hopes to make the pastel de nada a popular treat in the UK - just as it is in Portugal and many other parts of the world.
They are really delicious and go well with Café de Nata's excellent coffee. So he appears to have a very good chance of doing that.
Pastéis de nata were first baked at the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Lisbon. But in 1834 the monastery closed. Three years later, after having purchased the monk's recipe, the Antiga Confeitaria de Belém took over. They've been making them ever since. In 2009, The Guardian was so taken with these delicacies, it urged people to visit Belém in an article titled: The 50 best things to eat in the world and where to eat them. But as the Facebook reviews of Café de Nata say, you can save yourself the journey and enjoy perfectly fresh, warm pastéis de nada straight out of the oven in Hammersmith Broadway.Café de Nata are based in a small shop at 25B, Hammersmith Broadway Shopping Centre that's a part of the bus and tube station.
You can view their Facebook page here and follow them on Twitter here.
Hammersmith and Fulham is fortunate to have attracted retail entrepreneurs who have brightened the borough's landscape. There's amazing gelato ice creams at Bertotti Pure Italian, stunning French breakfast pastries, cakes chocolates and breads at Patisserie Sainte-Anne, the ever wonderful Brackenbury's Delicatessen and more.
I wish Diogo Esteves and his partners good luck with their new enterprise but going by the reception Café de Nata is getting from their customers, I really don't think they'll need it.
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