CLAUDIA  MASCARENHAS    PRIVATE    AND  CONSULTANT  CHEF      

Na4onality  –  Brazilian  Languages  –  Portuguese  and  English    

Born in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Claudia Mascarenhas started her carrier as a chef in New York, where she lived for 12 years and owned a restaurant “Crepes & Co” in the Village. After living in Portugal for 3 years, she moved back to Brazil and worked at the most carioca bistrô Guimas as a chef responsable for 3 locations. After that she opened her own restaurant called Sitio Arqueológico, at Gávea , Rio de Janeiro At 2000 she opened a consultant company, working as executive chef and Food and Beverage Manager for many Restaurants in Rio and in the Green Coast ( Angra dos Reis and Paraty and also resorts in the mountains ( Petrópolis and Itaipava) Morro do Coco, Chez Dominique and Beira do Cais (in the complex of Hotel do Frade), Mistura Fina, Traiteur de France, Barril 1800, in Rio among others. In 2005 became executive chef and F&B Consultant of the historic Hotel Solar do Império in Petrópolis and Pousada Tankamana in Itaipava. Responsible for the menu of Leopoldina Restaurant with modern portuguese food . Now she works as private chef and consultant chef of restaurant Quintal das Letras, in Paraty. It is the restaurant of Pousada Literária the belongs to a goup of luxury hotels.

DNA  in  Gastronomy  –  Everybody  cooks  in  the  family  

SÍTIO  ARQUEOLÓGICO  Chef  and  Owner  –  Restaurant  in  Gávea  Rio  de  Janeiro    

CLIPPINGS  SOLAR  DO  IMPÉRIO  

CASE  MENU  IMPERIAL  

Menu  Inspired  on  the  Royal  Family  that  came  to  Brazil  from  Portugal  in  1808  

   ALGUNS  CLIPPINGS  

QUINTAL  DAS  LETRAS  

OTHERS  

OTHERS  With  Michael  Pollan  and  Carlo  Petrini  (  Slow  Food)  at  Quintal  das  

Letras    in  Paraty  

Gastronomy  

Boat  Maria  Panela  –  Mamanguá  -­‐  Paraty