Ljubomir Stanisic Sells the 100 Maneiras Group to the International Operator Behind Las Ficheras — Bistro 100 Maneiras and Carnal Gastrobar Move Across With the Flagship Lisbon Restaurant After 17 Years and an April Kitchen Fire

Ljubomir Stanisic has sold the 100 Maneiras restaurant group to Dhurba Subedi, the international operator behind the Las Ficheras venue in Lisbon and a global portfolio of more than 100 restaurants. The deal — announced on Thursday, 8 May 2026 — moves three Lisbon establishments across to the new ownership: 100 Maneiras (the fine-dining flagship in the Bairro Alto), Bistro 100 Maneiras and Carnal Gastrobar. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction closes 17 years of Stanisic's ownership of the brand he founded at age 26 after arriving in Portugal from former Yugoslavia.

The buyer

Dhurba Subedi runs an international hospitality group operating more than 100 restaurants worldwide, with Las Ficheras — the Lisbon Mexican-fusion concept that opened in 2024 — as its current Portuguese footprint. The Subedi acquisition adds three Lisbon brands of very different positioning to the same management vehicle: 100 Maneiras' tasting-menu fine dining, Bistro 100 Maneiras' relaxed bistro format and Carnal Gastrobar's grill-and-cocktails proposition. The combination gives Subedi a Lisbon hospitality stack across three price tiers, in a market where the post-pandemic restaurant economy has consolidated around exactly that kind of multi-format ownership.

What triggered the sale

The transition has been in motion since early 2026, when Stanisic and his co-founders stepped out of executive roles to oversee the management handover. The April kitchen fire that completely destroyed the Carnal restaurant in Lisbon almost certainly accelerated the timeline. Carnal had been the youngest of the three brands, and a full rebuild from the floor up against a cooling Lisbon dining tape is exactly the kind of capex decision that pushes a founder-operator toward the exit door. The transaction transfers that rebuild liability — and the operational risk of running three brands in a city whose Q1 hospitality numbers have been wobbly — to a buyer with the scale to absorb both.

What Stanisic has said

The chef framed the sale as "the end of a cycle, but also a beginning," telling ECO that he intends to keep building "in other latitudes, in other ways, with other names." Stanisic has been a fixture of the Portuguese culinary scene for almost two decades — a fixture in part because of the Yugoslavian backstory and in part because 100 Maneiras was one of the early data points showing that Lisbon could carry a tasting-menu fine-dining brand with international ambition rather than as a hotel-bound add-on. The exit is the most prominent owner-operator transition in the Lisbon dining scene since José Avillez restructured his Belcanto group.

Where Lisbon hospitality is

The 100 Maneiras transaction lands the same week Sonae's SC Hospitality announced a €50 million push into eight new Editory hotels — including a Lisbon footprint — and against the broader Q1 backdrop of a tourism market that grew but not as fast as the cost-base is rising. The Lisbon dining mid-market in particular has compressed as labour costs, energy bills and the IUC pass-through have pushed marginal operators toward consolidation, sale or closure. The Subedi acquisition is the kind of transaction the next 18 months are likely to print more of: well-known Portuguese brands, founder-led for a decade or longer, moving into international groups with deeper balance sheets and multi-city operating leverage. The Lisbon dining scene will keep its names. The ownership ledger underneath them is changing fast.

Sources: ECO (8 May 2026); 100 Maneiras Group communiqué; Carnal Gastrobar Lisbon fire reports (April 2026).