Friday, May 10, 2013

Replica of Portuguese tram serves national delicacies in London


A replica of Lisbon’s number 28 tram (original shown above)  is becoming a main talking point in the UK after two budding Portuguese entrepreneurs came up with the idea to create the replica and serve traditional Portuguese coffee and pasteis de nata tarts from it.

The ‘nata28’ mini-tram is the brainwave of Portuguese nationals Jaime Silva and Nuno Patrício, who took an Italian motorised tricycle to Leeds (UK) to have it transformed into something resembling a quaint Lisbon tram.
A coffee machine, a glass box in which the custard Pasteis are kept warm and a till were installed in the back of the tricycle and for the past few months ‘nata28’ has been selling close to 600 of the typical Portuguese pastries every weekend.
Nata28 is now a hit among the citizens of Camden Town, London, and has become a bit of an attraction in itself.

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