The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement yesterday that a café in its House of Macao Literature on Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida has opened for business.
The statement said that the cultural and creative café, located in the annex building of the House of Macao Literature, provides light meals and drinks and sells cultural products, aiming to create a cultural, creative and leisure ambience there.
The House of Macao Literature, which is located near Praça do Tap Seac, opened in September 2022.
According to its website, the House of Macao Literature has four main objectives, namely building up the image of Macau literature; preserving Macau’s literary works, historical materials and cultural relics; demonstrating the “ethos” of Macau literature; and studying and promoting the development of Macau literature. The facility is housed in a listed building at 95A-95B Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida.
The House of Macao Literature features exhibition facilities, a reading room, multifunction rooms, plus front and back gardens.
The bureau launched a public tender in October last year for the granting of a 36-month lease to operate a café in the House of Macao Literature.
A total of nine companies or individual entrepreneurs submitted their bids, which were unsealed by IC officials in November last year. Eight of the nine bids were accepted.
The accepted bids were assessed based on four criteria, namely the proposed amount of monthly rent accounting for 30 percent of the scores, the proposed operation plans accounting for 40 percent, space design accounting for 15 percent, and the bidders’ experience in operating similar businesses accounting for 15 percent.
The bureau announced the tender’s bidding result on its website in February, according to which the 36-month lease to operate the House of Macao Literature’s café was granted to an individual entrepreneur for a monthly rent of 15,000 patacas.
According to the bureau’s announcements in October last year, the House of Macao Literature’s café is also required to sell cultural publications and other cultural products.
The café’s operator is also required to create “a space simultaneously featuring gastronomic and Macau cultural and creative facets”, according to the announcement last October.
This handout photo taken and released by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) yesterday shows the newly-opened café in its House of Macao Literature on Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida.
