Alfredo de Almeida, a bookseller, and Lucília Carmo, a fado singer, also parents of the fado singer Carlos do Carmo, opened this establishment in 1947 and since then it has lived on as a veritable temple to fado. Alfredo Marceneiro, Tristão da Silva, Beatriz da Silva and, more recently, Camané have all performed here. And its customers, amongst which Marcello Mastroianni, have been just as illustrious.