Portuguese chef Nuno Mendes has opened Cozinha Das Flores and Flor, a restaurant and bar in historic Porto, with intimate interiors by Space Copenhagen.Occupying five interconnected 17th-century buildings on a small public square, Largo de Sao Domingos, the space features a 50-cover dining room plus an intimate bar that also serves small plates.

In the dining room, under a long banquette, a tiled mural in olive green and dusky pink has been designed by architect Alvaro Siza and hand painted by ceramic tile company, Viuva Lamego, whose legacy stretches back to the mid-19th-century.Siza, a Porto native, was asked to draw on his real-life experiences of the city, and came up with a series of sketches of street musicians, which are arranged in a jauntily irregular way over the wall, lending an animated quality to the otherwise calm dining room.

As well as the local tiles, stone, timber and metal have also been sourced from Portugal, with earthy terracotta-coloured walls to give a cocooning warmth. An open kitchen is arranged around a fire that allows guests to see the food being cooked,while a floor-to-ceiling glass-fronted wine cabinet, framed in oak and blackened steel, continues the theme of openness and theatricality;sitting in front of it is a curving, monolithic marble sommelier station.

In the cosy flagstone-floored Flor bar, there are bar stools are by Space Copenhagen for Mater, paired with Loafer stools by &Tradition.The space is dominated by a bespoke horseshoe-shaped marble-topped bar, backed with sunrise-like glass installation by Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis, which softly diffuses warm light into the room, providing a sedative-like backdrop for cocktails.