{"id":2220,"date":"2025-09-16T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:53:34","slug":"the-story-behind-a-tascas-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/?p=2220","title":{"rendered":"The story behind A Tasca\u2019s menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At A Tasca in Ponta Delgada, the menu shares more than food. It tells the story of Wulf Koehler and Dagmar Mehlis-Doering, who moved from Germany to S\u00e3o Miguel and became close friends of the house. Wulf\u2019s underwater photography decorated the restaurant\u2019s upstairs dining room in its early years, and together the couple went on to publish books, create whale-themed projects, and support local animal charities. Some of their work, including whale plushies and handmade cat items, is still available at A Tasca today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-2222\" src=\"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27315%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20850%20315%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27315%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte-200x74.png 200w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte-400x148.png 400w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte-600x222.png 600w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte-768x285.png 768w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte-800x296.png 800w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Outlook-ie5f3qte.png 850w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-2223\" src=\"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271275%27%20height%3D%271650%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201275%201650%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271275%27%20height%3D%271650%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-200x259.jpg 200w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-400x518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-600x776.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-800x1035.jpg 800w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001-1200x1553.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar_page-0001.jpg 1275w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The full page from the menu can be read in the PDF below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WulfDagmar-1.pdf\">Wulf&amp;Dagmar A Tasca Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At A Tasca in Ponta Delgada, the menu shares more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":2220,"pt":2227},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaleworld.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}