A fishing-net shop that started to smell of charcoal.
Until the nineties this building sold nets, floats and rope to the fishermen who still moored in Miragaia. When Rosa and Abel found it in 2013, the doors were shut and the old wooden counter was still inside.
Abel grew up in Afurada, across the river, watching his father grill fish in the street. Rosa learned to cook from her grandmother in Viana do Castelo. They opened Casa Corvina in March 2014 with eight tables and a handwritten menu.
The menu is still short on purpose. We buy fish in the morning at the Matosinhos market and decide what goes on the grill once we have seen it. When it runs out, it runs out.
The old shop counter is where we slice the bread now. The tiles at the entrance are the originals, from 1920, and they are the one thing we did not touch.
