Team
Dedicated to creating incredible food and curating unique experiences, our team welcome you to embarking on a new age of discovery.
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Winter Break
Ocean restaurant will be taking a short break, between 24/11 – 23/12/2025, and for a winter break.
We'll be open again on December 24th, 2025, refreshed and ready to serve you until January 4th, 2026!
Reservation requests for the 24th & 31st of December 2025 should be made directly via email at fb@vilavitaparc.com
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Meet our Team
Our crew
Travelling the oceans together
We share a passion to discover and learn from our journey into different aspects of our gastronomic history, looking at them with a new perspective.
Hans Neuner
Executive Chef
Originally from Austria, Hans Neuner arrived in the Algarve in 2007 searching for a new inspiration. The incredible story of Portuguese cuisine provided him with a new gastronomic passion, immersing himself in a time travel in faraway places.
The flavours and ingredients he found here led him on a journey throughout the different regions of Portugal’s age of discovery, experiencing the eclectic and diverse influences that make up a vibrant food heritage.
By looking at these travels with a fresh perspective, Hans captures the essence of each journey into a menu that guides guests into an engaging tour of history, earning the restaurant its first Michelin star in 2009 and its second only two years later in 2011.
Nelson Marreiros
Restaurant Manager
João Wiborg de Carvalho
Head Sommelier
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Stories
Tastes of DiscoveryFor the past five years, Ocean’s kitchen has been in constant motion, tracing the footprints of Portuguese history across the globe and uncovering the flavours that have emerged from centuries of migration and cultural exchange, and each year Ocean’s menu has been an expedition.
A Journey Around the WorldOver five years and five menus, Hans Neuner has travelled around the world through a series of trips in search of Portugal’s Era dos Descobrimentos. Throughout the 15th to the 17th century, ships set sail from the shores of the Algarve to explore the New World, discovering new people, lands, and cultures.
The Perfect PairThe latest menu at Ocean takes us on a culinary trip around the world, which presents a challenge for pairing wines to its diverse flavours and complex dishes. Even so, sommeliers João Wiborg and Marco Teixeira proved that the magic wine and food can weave together could still be conjured, and each can add to the experience of the other…