Went with a group of six for a company dinner and had a fantastic meal! It's expensive for Brazil…read morebut reasonably priced by US standards. Make sure you make reservations though as the restaurant was full even on a Monday night!
We ordered:
- Special Appetizer plate (RS $50): assorted appetizers such as roasted eggplant, fish ceviche, garlic shrimp, tomato with mozzarella, etc. Tasty and a large size -- recommended! 4/5
- Cheese Bread (RS $20): cheesy but a bit hard and dense. Sorry but the ones at Fogo de Chao are much better. 2/5
- Shrimp with cream cheese pastry (I think they call it camarones Catupiry on the menu - RS $27 for 4): so light and fluffy! The cream cheese was a unique addition and we really enjoyed these. 4.5/5
- Fish moqueca (RS $219 for 2 people): first time trying this local dish. It was served with a smaller pot of banana moqueca and sides of white rice, farofa, beans, yucca fries and this paste made from mixing farofa with the moqueca sauce. That paste was delicious! The moqueca was good too but not amazing for someone trying it for the first time. 3.5/5
- Beef with milky rice (carne de sol de serta- RS $95): this sounded weird but the server recommended it when we asked for a meat dish for the person in our group who didn't eat shellfish. It's basically shredded beef on top of white rice, with a cheesy sauce baked on top. It tasted a lot better than it sounded and was the favorite dish of a couple of the guests. 4/5
- Fisherman's Platter with Fish and Lobster (RS $321 for 2): large enough to feed 4 if you get another dish. Lobster, calamari, shrimp and fish roasted in a delicious garlic sauce. The seafood was very slightly over cooked but still yummy. 4/5
Cocktails were solid -- I loved my Opera Caipi-- and service was good too. English was enough to understand but not fluent, and very helpful in making reservations. We had a TON of leftovers but were so stuffed at the end. Would not hesitate recommending this for visitors to Vitoria!
