baixa · porto

gastronomy
as an act of ecology.

a twenty-six-seat plant-based restaurant in porto, cooking from a small network of regenerative farms and producers in portugal, many of those relationships rooted in the north.

hourssun–sat 19h–23h
now on the tablesummer menu · changes with the autumn harvest
dinner at venn

a small room. a seasonal tasting menu.

one tasting menu of four or six courses, about two hours, changed when the farms change: four to eight times a year, sometimes split early and late when a short window is worth catching.

twenty-six seats. open sunday to saturday from 19h. each guest leaves with a card for one ingredient on the menu and the farm it came from. booking ahead is encouraged.

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venn canteen dining room at night, seen from the street
a dinner with your name a gift card arrives by email with your name and an optional note. give dinner at venn
spring onions pulled from the soil

where it comes from. where it goes.

where our food begins

this year's ingredient spending, read live from our invoices.

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Monika Błoch — co-founder & executive chef, venn canteen
Monika Błochco-founder · executive chef

stems, skins, leaves. all of it is dinner.

Monika leads the kitchen at venn: whole vegetables, low-waste technique and a serious respect for the growers behind every ingredient. Her cooking draws on central European food memories and years of work with fermentation and preservation.

Before venn she cooked at Época, in Porto, and ran Supa Zupas, a soup kitchen project with Paula Lopes at Hotelier on Rua de Anselmo Braamcamp.

"At Venn Canteen, Monika Bloch, a Polish chef, makes vegan comfort food with unexpected smells and flavors. She has magic hands."
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how venn started
nine EAT.BITZ oracle cards, each held in one hand the EAT.BITZ datascape: a flower drawn in points of light someone looking at the EAT.BITZ platform on their phone the EAT.BITZ datascape projected in a dark room

where a dish comes from, while you are eating it

At dinner each guest gets an oracle card for one ingredient on the menu, and the farm it came from. You can take it home.

Co-funded by the European Union ST3ER NetZeroCities

This Project has indirectly received funding from the European Union’s COSME - SMP programme, via an Open Call issued and executed under project ST3ER (grant agreement No 101121592)

a plate handed across the pass, the docket beside it

better food systems, built in a restaurant.

for restaurants, hotels and caterers. every method we offer runs in our own kitchen first.

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venn canteen, baixa ao entardecer
citrus ferment
chef finishing dish
acorn tagliatelle, kitchen
cavolo nero, prep
rhubarb, cornflowers, broth
mushroom and potato dish
prickly pear ice lolly
grain risotto, nasturtium
potato stack, kitchen