A Celebration of Wine and Food At Adega — San Jose’s First Michelin-Starred Restaurant
Chefs David Costa and Jessica Carreira of San Jose’s first Michelin starred restaurant, Adega.
Last Thursday, a mere two days after Adega scored the first Michelin star in all of San Jose, the vibe was still celebratory and one of complete shock.
Co-owner Carlos Carreira recounted that after they got the early morning phone call with the announcement, his daughter, Pastry Chef Jessica Carreira, who along with her fiance Chef David Costa, oversee the kitchen, were so dumbfounded that they thought it might have been a prank call.
Carlos Carreira assured her it couldn’t have been. But he also thought to himself, “What did we just do?”
Merely make history by becoming the first restaurant in San Jose to score a coveted Michelin star, and only the second Portuguese restaurant in the United States to garner such acclaim (following New York’s Aldea).
Adega takes its wine very seriously.
The intimate dining room.
Art on the walls.
All this for a restaurant that only opened last year, in the frill-free, working-class neighborhood known as Little Portugal.