Bar Douro opens third London site in Soho today
Ten years after its first arch under London Bridge, Bar Douro returns to Greek Street with a UK-exclusive cut of rare Portuguese beef.
Bar Douro opens its third London restaurant today, November 4, at 10 Greek Street in Soho, with a menu built around Portuguese produce and a beef cut never before sold in the UK.
The site replaces the restaurant previously known as 10 Greek Street, which closed in August. Bar Douro now runs three addresses across the capital, a decade after founder Max Graham opened the first branch under a railway arch near London Bridge in 2016.
The Soho opening doubles as an anniversary marker. Graham first tested the idea on Greek Street itself, running a Churchill's Port House pop-up on the same street for eight months back in 2013, three years before Bar Douro properly launched. The new restaurant puts him back where he started.
Ten years on, the same street gets a different kind of pop-up: one with a lease.
The headline dish is a vaca velha ribeye, cut from Maronesa cattle supplied by Carnes Irmãos Unidos. Maronesa is a protected, slow-growing breed raised in the Trás-os-Montes mountains of northern Portugal and rarely sold outside the country. Bar Douro says it is the first UK restaurant to import and serve it.
The beef had a quiet trial run at a one-off supper club in July before today's opening. It joins the group's usual repertoire of chargrilled dishes, alongside a wine list drawn entirely from Portuguese regions.
Inside, the restaurant keeps counter seating around an open kitchen and a tiled dining room, with a separate cellar room set aside for tastings and producer dinners. Soho-only dishes sit alongside the signatures familiar from Bar Douro's other sites.
A decade back on Greek Street
Bar Douro's first restaurant opened under the railway arches near London Bridge station in 2016, built around small plates, chargrilled meat and fish, and a wine list focused entirely on Portugal — then still an unusual proposition in London. A second branch followed. The Soho site is the first built around a single imported cut of beef rather than a broader menu refresh.
Portugal's slow build in London
Portuguese cooking has moved in London over the past decade from the margins — bakeries and cafés serving pastéis de nata, or home kitchens making Lisbon's salt cod cakes — toward sit-down dining built on regional produce, wine and specific cattle and fish breeds rather than a generalised idea of the cuisine. Bar Douro's Soho return, timed to its own tenth anniversary, is a marker of how far that shift has gone. A few streets away, Soho's recent run of regional openings suggests the same appetite for specificity is spreading beyond Portuguese cooking too.
