Arrived into town (after 4 drive!) starving. Not familiar…read morewith the city, parked in the center , and walked around looking for a place to eat , Stumbling immediately into Bota D'agua! Thank goodness for accidents as this place is sooooooo good! Very nice explanada but unfortunately Had to eat inside , no table open outside. The interior is nicely and tastefully decorated. Simple but pretty. Bathrooms very clean. To the food: Polished an appetizer of melon and presunto: Ripe and tasty melon. Presunto not salty. . full Cataplana of seafood. Exquisite! All washed down with a 1 Bottle of adega ponte de lima, green wine. Oh my what a meal. Thank you João , my waiter. You are a wonderful professional. A Thank you also Daniela, our other waiter, you're a gracious young lady . And finally a big thank you to senhor Manuel (the owner) for being so accommodating at 8:30 pm on a busy Saturday night.

Good food, good service and nice ambience. The service was…read morequick and the food was excellent.

Very nice place to discover for a good diner with or without friends in a nice city like Viana do…read moreCastelo

Wonderful garlic shrimp, padron peppers, ambiance and service. Tricky to find, but worth itread more

OMG, this place is freaking amazing. I was brought here by some Spanish friends to try some…read moreauthentic Portuguese food and they were right. The veal, the cod, the goat, and especially the chocolate mousse. If you're around this area, this is definitely the restaurant to try.

This was mentioned by the hotel staff and easy to walk to. Small restaurant, owner at the helm…read more Food was AMAZING - we are Portuguese and felt like we were at home at a family dinner. Great menu, wine and apps and the meal was nota dez. Do yourself a favor and go when you're in Viana. Parabens!

Being tired, I picked a restaurant around the corner of the place where i stayed. This was a…read moreTuesday evening in Viana and the place was absolutely deserted. I was expecting a tourist trap, but it was quite OK: it is a traditional restaurant, but the food is done to perfection. I had a caldo verde (the famous kale soup), great on a chilly evening, followed by cabrita (goat) - something I had been dreaming of for years. Goat is excellent, and certainly not some sort of lamb: its meat is both smoother and tastier. Service was good, and so was the alvarinho - what else?

Very good restaurant. It has received 2 Michelin Stars. I've been to the restaurant 3 times. The…read morefirst two times were excellent! The soups are amazing and the dinner entrees are both creative and mouth-watering. The third visit was 'good' but not 'great'. The potatoes were a bit dry and the desserts were less impressive. The restaurant is so charming; located on a small Travessa just off of the main town square. It is romantic and a perfect place for a couple enjoying a night out or for a small group looking for an intimate dinner location.

Sabores de Viana offers some of the best lunches in the city. 8€ includes soup, generous portion…read moreentrees and sides, bread and choice of beverage ....conveniently just outside the centro histórico.

Stumbling into places in Viana do Castelo (2 of 2)…read more I was in Viana do Castelo again. If you're in the Porto area, you might always want to return to this town, with the colder and rougher coast of the north of Portugal having its own allure, whether under sunny or foggy skies. And, if you don't have a (rental) car, you can get here with the train or even a bus. This last time, I knew I would head straight to Dantas for lunch. I walked up to the place and it was closed for a vacation. That's why, when I called, no one was answering the phone. I was a little annoyed as that meant I'd have to find another place to eat. I did a rectangular walk, taking me down to the riverside and back up, and saw a restaurant with an eating area out front that was full. There were also some people waiting. Some of them were obviously locals who worked in or for the town. I asked someone if the food was good and they nodded that it was. The name of this place is Casa Primavera. I asked that I be added to the list and I cleared that list in about 10 minutes. I sat in the larger part of the restaurant in the back. I figured that I would get fish for lunch since they had some types that I do eat. I settled on a slab of swordfish, which is called "espadarte." It was served with something similar to garbanzo beans and some potatoes. The platter was incredibly tasty. I ordered Pepsi's sugar free equivalent of a Coke Zero to drink. Note that, if from neighboring countries speaking similar languages, you might see "peixe spada" and think it's swordfish ... it's not. I kept saying that I wasn't going to get a dessert, but their pricing was fair. I thus went for a small slice of a rich chocolate tart. Casa Primavera was completely full and the service was excellent. The people who work here are uniformly very nice to their customers. Some of the tables are close to other tables and I often just study the landscape while eating. A Spanish couple on vacation sitting at a practically adjacent table began speaking with me. I thought that, like so many others, they had driven down from Galicia, right above the border. They told me they were Madrilenos, so a friendly conversation ensued. At any rate, that added to the conviviality of the entire experience. I try not to be overly generous with ratings, seeing some reviewers' histograms that skew heavily toward 5s and taper downward. However, with Casa Primavera doing everything right with a full house and after such a tasty lunch, I think it's one of the better restaurant options in Viana do Castelo and I was lucky to have happened onto it.

This place in unbelievable! Firstly, it's a locals place and…read morealways busy. You pick out your fish before they grill it. It's straight out of the ocean and the guy that line caught it,is standing at the bar smiling. A pitcher of local Vinho Verde served in a ceramic jug washes it all down. Don't miss the dessert of stinky cheese and custard, I promise you'll love it. And did I mention that it's not expensive and the staff are amazing? I can't wait to return.

Great place to eat some traditional Portuguese food at a low price in the historic area of Vienaread more