Wait, you're Portuguese!
I want to take a moment to say that I love the Azores. We took advantage of the whole Corona/Work from Home thing to live there for five months in 2020/2021 (mostly in an apartment in Ponta Delgada) and I was blown away by the landscape and, yes, the dairy. (And I normally live in Switzerland, so it's not like my dairy standards are low.) And also the seafood and beef, and the white wine, and people were very nice to us... I like many other parts of Portugal too, but the Azores have a very special place in my heart.
But speaking of Polish-Portuguese fusion, I have at least one idea: that Christmas I was bored and made a wide variety of seafood pierogi and they were very, very tasty.
Yes, I'm Portuguese. People that have been on the Forum longer already know that, so I forgot to mention! And yes, Portugal is a very nice place. All things considered (including climate, stability, security, absence of (regular) natural disasters, etc...) I believe it's one of the best places to live. Also, despite being born in Portugal, I lived in Brazil my whole childhood and teenage years, and came back to Portugal when I was 20 y.o., so I'm also very familiar with Brazilian food* (and I believe that's why Jitter, that already knows that, suggested the Brazilian component to our restaurant).
However I'm not a particularly skilled cook (I usually colaborate in the cooking process with the before, preparing ingredients, and the after, eating
) even if I don't dislike that part, so give me some time to do my research before we open...
BTW I envy you (in a good way) because I know most places in Portugal, with one outstanding exception: The Azores.
So you probably know that part way better than me. I would love to spend a few months there like you did.
I never ate pierogi, but it seems the combination of seafood and mashed potato would work pretty well.
* Some of it. Both Portugal and Brazil have an enourmous variety of dishes and ways to prepare them, so it's almost impossible to know them all.
Maybe your restaurant should be Polish / Brazilian, meaning lots and lots of meat but grill everything? And feijoada served with pierogis?
Actually Feijoada is many times served together with "
Bolinhos de Aipim" (cassava dumplings), so not
that far away from Pierogis. Our restaurant already has a first dish!
This bit: "Soon they arrived at a white house set in a garden of sorts. Most of the garden appeared very bland with only short grass, "
I also noted that part. Made me think of the USA (those front laws...) but then, just like Tehta, I considered that it could be in many places. Golf club houses also came to mind...
