About Company
The story of NandoÕs starts hundreds of years ago with the first Portuguese explorers who set sail for the East in search of the legendary spice route.
Lured by the promises of our beautiful continent, they came ashore and there, under our famous sun, they discovered the African BirdÕs … read moreEye Chilli or as we know it (and love it), PERi-PERi. Unique in its properties, they used it to create a one-of-a-kind sauce that ignited the fires of passion inside them.
A few centuries later, in 1987, it was the same PERi-PERi sauce that inspired Fernando Duarte to invite his buddy Robbie Brozin to a small Portuguese eatery in Rosettenville, South Africa, to try some PERi-PERi marinated chicken. In his own words, “I knew nothing about the food business, I just knew that it was the best chicken I had ever tasted.”
Lured by the promises of our beautiful continent, they came ashore and there, under our famous sun, they discovered the African BirdÕs … read moreEye Chilli or as we know it (and love it), PERi-PERi. Unique in its properties, they used it to create a one-of-a-kind sauce that ignited the fires of passion inside them.
A few centuries later, in 1987, it was the same PERi-PERi sauce that inspired Fernando Duarte to invite his buddy Robbie Brozin to a small Portuguese eatery in Rosettenville, South Africa, to try some PERi-PERi marinated chicken. In his own words, “I knew nothing about the food business, I just knew that it was the best chicken I had ever tasted.”