Sobremesa is the Brazilian word for the time spent sitting at the table after a meal. This course was designed to extend it — two hours of sweets, the table cleared only of plates.
The commission was for a culinary production project for a hospitality brand launching a new property in the Algarve. The brief asked for a dessert narrative — not a list of desserts, but a sequence that told a story about time and place.
Matheus developed a four-part progression over two hours: first, something acidic and cold (a tamarind granita); then something warm and nostalgic (a corn cake from his grandmother's recipe, scaled up and reworked); then something small and precise (a single chocolate bonbon, house-made); and finally, nothing — just coffee and the bill, placed without ceremony. The absence of a fifth course was intentional.
The production ran over three days on location. The final images and video content were used across the property's launch campaign and in-room dining materials.