JNĉQUOI — Lisbon, Portugal

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Interior look of the JNĉQUOI luxury restaurant. Tall ceilings and windows, which are in the french style. Various sitting arrangements, with the sitting area in beige, orange, and deep green, with white marble tables. At the center, there is a dinosaur's skeleton.
(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Behind the façade of the former 1920s Tivoli theatre on Lisbon’s grand Avenida da Liberade, JNĉQUOI – or je ne sais quoi – is the latest venture from the luxury goods arm of Portugal’s Amorim Group.

Building on the company’s multi-brand Fashion Clinic stores, the concept adds food and lifestyle to the mix to form a humming emporium, set over three floors. Barcelona-based designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán has dressed the spaces with muted furnishings in low-level hues that accent the detailed cornicing and elaborate frescoes that have carefully been brought back to life.

At entry level, Ladurée and Assouline outlets flank the central grocery store and DeliBar, which serves up a menu of light meals including oysters and caviar, while downstairs Fashion Clinic Man is a menswear haven showcasing brands from Tom Ford to Christian Louboutin.

The real highlight is the top floor restaurant, where dishes such as sea bass ceviche or melt-in-the-mouth Iberian pork, are served in a light-filled room with a central dinosaur skeleton that is certainly a conversation starter if nothing else.

Interior look of the JNĉQUOI luxury restaurant's bar area. Tall countertop in white marble with leather bar chairs in brown leather and large paintings high on the walls.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Interior look of the JNĉQUOI luxury restaurant's bar area. Tall countertop in white marble with leather bar chairs in brown leather.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Interior look of the JNĉQUOI luxury restaurant's sitting area. Next to the french style doors painted in white, there is a sitting spot with mirror-like tables, and deep brown wooden chairs covered in green velvet.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Ladurée outlet in the JNĉQUOI luxury restaurant. A marble countertop is to the left, with the chandeliers above it.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Assouline outlet in the JNĉQUOI luxury restaurant. To the left and right there are different coffee table books displayed on shelves, with different themes - fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

A futuristic-looking vault-like room, with mirrors to the left and right, while at the center we see a huge light hanging from the ceiling.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Luxury footwear room, with the circle sitting area in beige at the center, surrounded by mirror shelves that display the footwear.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Luxury clothing store, clothes hanging from the white pipes that serve as hanging rods.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

Luxury clothing store, with dark brown shelves filled with dress shirts, and suits displayed on mannequins.

(Image credit: Francisco Nogueira)

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Avenida Liberdade 182-184

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Mary Lussiana

Mary Lussiana is a passionate hotel-lover and freelance travel writer contributing to many of the UK’s best magazines and newspapers. A mother of three, she has lived in Portugal's sunny south since this century began, and continues to live there with her husband, their yellow Labrador, Bellini and returning children.