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Torel Private Collection
Porto, Portugal · Torel · Accessible Luxury
Sixteen rooms, adults only, in a late nineteenth-century house on Rua da Restauração remembered as the summer place of Antónia Adelaide Ferreira, the widow who ran the Douro wine trade and whom everyone still calls a Ferreirinha. The owner's private collection runs past 300 works, thirty or forty hung at a time and rotated, so Julian Opie, Anselm Kiefer and Takashi Murakami share the walls with Helena Almeida and Rui Chafes. There is a gallery four floors down and a 22-seat omakase counter called Kanjiru. Some suites put a jacuzzi in front of the river.
- 16 rooms
- Opened 2023
- Neighborhood: Miragaia
About Torel Private Collection
- The art is not decoration bought for the hotel. It is the owner's own collection of more than 300 works, of which only thirty or forty hang at any time before being swapped out.
- Sixteen rooms across two adjoining buildings, adults only, and the whole house can be taken over by one party, which is close to the point of the place.
- Kanjiru seats 22 for Japanese omakase, an unusual thing to find in a Porto townhouse above the Douro.
- The gallery is on floor minus four, dug down into the hillside that Rua da Restauração runs along.
History
The house at Rua da Restauração 292 dates from the late nineteenth century and is remembered as a summer residence of Antónia Adelaide Ferreira, the Douro wine matriarch known across Portugal as a Ferreirinha, who ran one of the great port houses as a widow and became a national figure. The building went through various uses across the twentieth century before a full restoration in 2023 kept the ornate ceilings, the decorative tiles, the tall windows and the staircases, and joined it to the building next door.
Torel Boutiques opened the result as Torel Private Collection, an adults-only house of sixteen rooms and suites run more like a private residence than a hotel, down to the option of booking the whole thing. The organising idea is the owner's art collection: over 300 works, of which thirty to forty are shown at a time and rotated, with a dedicated gallery on floor minus four. Names on the walls include Julian Opie, Mickalene Thomas, Anselm Kiefer, Günther Förg and Takashi Murakami alongside the Portuguese artists Helena Almeida, Pedro Cabrita Reis and Rui Chafes. Rooms are built around moods rather than a single decorative scheme, and the top suites add private saunas, sensory showers and, in at least one case, a jacuzzi facing the Douro. The restaurant, Kanjiru, is a 22-seat Japanese omakase counter.
The setting
Rua da Restauração climbs the Miragaia hillside above the Douro, a street of nineteenth and early twentieth-century bourgeois houses between the Palácio de Cristal gardens and the old centre. Number 429 on the same street, a Marques da Silva house of 1905, was restored by Eduardo Souto de Moura and won the city's João de Almada prize in 2021, which says something about the company the address keeps. Miragaia's cobbled lanes and small kitchens are immediately below, the Jardim da Cordoaria and the Portuguese Centre of Photography are a short walk up, São Bento station is about fifteen minutes on foot, and the Torel group's own Avantgarde stands further along the same street at 336.
Restaurants and bars
- Kanjiru — Restaurant · Asian-inspired fine dining, omakase · Chef Vitor Matos
Experiences
- Kanjiru omakase experience — Omakase dining sequence guided by Chef Vitor Matos, presented like a private gallery unveiling.
- Private Art Collection — Private art gallery with a permanent collection and temporary exhibitions by international and Portuguese artists, woven into daily life at the hotel.
Amenities
- Private art gallery
- Balconies with views
- Free Wi-fi
- Personalized service
- 24 Hours Check-in
- Concierge
- Private parking
- Wi-Fi
- Laundry
- Welcome drink
- 24-hour room service
- 24-hour reception
- Shuttle service to and from the airport (upon prior appointment)
- Pet-friendly (advance notice requested)
- Curated art in rooms and suites
- Laundry and dry-cleaning services
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