What will students of the subconscious say of Francisco Cordiero? If nothing else, he seems obsessed with ships.
The Portuguese-born civil engineer is director of a ship-modelling firm, Modelismo Naval e Artistico. His first restaurant, A Lorcha, was based on the famed Portuguese sailing ships.
And his latest restaurant is called The Black Ship, designed like those gigantic Portuguese ships of the 16th century which - according to the history written in his menu - were the largest in the world, going from Portugal to China and Macau.
But Cordiero admits his Black Ship has not really succeeded in duplicating the design and atmosphere of the original.
What has gone wrong? Blame it on the unimaginative lighting, shedding a uniform brownness on the brown setting. Blame it partly on the incidental music, light pop of the 1960s. Or simply blame it on a blandness of personality.
But Cordiero intends to rectify this situation before year's end, enlisting a more imaginative designer to give the illusion of these great ships.