Cruel

Aliados & Bolhão


How cruel are you? This is what you’ll be asked at this on-trend restaurant, where the menu is graded according to how adventurous your appetite is: ‘fearful', ‘cautious’ or ‘cruel’. The look is slick and urban, and the menu has inventive riffs on classics – think ‘hallucinating mushroom risotto’ and ‘electric carpaccio’ – many of which are big enough to share.


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