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Best European restaurants nearby. Discover the best European food in Joao Pessoa. View Menus, Photos and Reviews for European restaurants near you. including Sapore D'Italia, Famiglia Muccini, Casa do Bacalhau, Divina Italia, Appetito Trattoria, Quintal Gastro, Restaurante Teimoso
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7. Restaurante Teimoso
Overall Ratings
4 based on 40 reviews
Small family restaurant with Portuguese regional cuisine, specializing in fish and seafood, and great snacks.
Reviewed By Timothy I
We have now been to this restaurant three or four times and have enjoyed every visit. The setting is very attactive with a forecourt and some tables outside and then tables in what must have been a house. The food and particularly the fish, octopus and shell fish are excellent and they offer some good quite cheap white wines. Bread is homemade and delicious and the service is excellent. I recommend it.
6. Quintal Gastro
Overall Ratings
4 based on 157 reviews
Reviewed By engped
Excellent restaurant with a different strategy. You make a reservation over the phone and inform the chef your dietary restrictions. Based on the information provided, a menu is prepared at a fixed cost. Food was delicious and service was impeccable.However, the wine prices are outrageous. Some labels have a markup of over 100%.
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5. Appetito Trattoria
Overall Ratings
4 based on 266 reviews
Reviewed By Whissely
When you are in the Northeast of Brazil, meals are usually fish, fish, fish. So I decided to try this restaurant as an option to get off the fish diet.We had the meat ravioli (which was tasteless), fetucine with fresh tomato sauce (tasteless) and fetucine with butter and basil (decent). At the end of our meal we conlcuded we should have stuck to fish and seafood. We also had the bruschetta as an appetizer (which was average at best).The wine list is small, but has some good options. The only problem is that they do not have a climatized cellar, which makes a huge difference in a city as hot as João Pessoa. They showed up with a chilled red wine (and by chilled I mean as if it were a white wine) which we did not accept.The restaurant is charming and does fill up but I only recommend this if you are fed up with eating seafood and local cusine. If not, it´s not worth the visit, the pasta is nothing special, anyone can whip up recipes like this in 5 minutes.
4. Divina Italia
Overall Ratings
4 based on 292 reviews
Pilotado pelo chef Fernando Franco, o Divina Itália apresenta uma proposta italiana contemporânea, com recheios, molhos especiais e massas preparadas artesanalmente, como reza a tradição. Tudo isso, acompanhado de muita influência da cozinha brasileira. N
Reviewed By Timothy I
Eating at the Divina Italia is always a special occasion especially for us. The restaurant itself is simple but sophisticated and elegant and the service good. I confess that we nearly always eat the same dish which is magnificent - the prawn risotto with mango. The fresh warm bread as a starter is delicious and we finished with a slice of Belgian chocolate gateaux which was perfect. I think the wine list is a bit small and expensive although there are one of two decent cheaper wines. I recommend the Malbec. All in all it was as good as the last time we ate there which is always an important consideration.
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3. Casa do Bacalhau
Overall Ratings
4 based on 698 reviews
Reviewed By DelfinoEdward
This is an incredibly authentic Portuguese restaurant! The design and detail make one feel that youâre in Portugal, with the waitresses dressed in traditional garb. The food is excellent, the service is excellent and the décor is really charming! I donât know why I waited so long to eat here, but I wonât be waiting too long to come back! I really loved my lunch here! (Did I use too many exclamation points in this review ????!!!!!)
2. Famiglia Muccini
Overall Ratings
4 based on 2028 reviews
Reviewed By YouBeeTs
The restaurant has a nice decor, trying to recall the typical ambiance of a Tuscan "osteria". I had the antipasti buffet. Some of them are quite nice, I would recommend "lonza" among the cold cuts, carpaccio, asparagus and he tblue cheese (pretending with little success to be a gorgonzola, but quite nice anyway). The big letdown came with my main dish, that is, caprese. I may understand that decent mozzarella seems to be unavailable in Brazil, still the dry, tasteless cheese was one of the worst I ever had in Brazil. Then, why include grilled zucchini? A quick consultation of any Italian recipe book would have revealed that the only ingredients of caprese are mozzarella, tomatoes and basil leaves. Moreover, most likely due to the presence of recently grilled zucchini, the tomatoes were warm. In summary, a complete failure. On the bright side, tiramisù (a modern interpretation of it, with no visible biscuits, and served in a glass) was quite nice. Decent caipirinha for R$9.90, and a total bill of R$132, largely disproportionate to the quality offered. Service was ok, although after being assured that my friend's risotto ai funghi was vegerian, it turned out to contain bacon.
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1. Sapore D'Italia
Overall Ratings
4 based on 1486 reviews
Reviewed By agilberttx
We wanted a fine dining experience (30th wedding anniversary) and selected this restaurant based upon the Tripadvisor ratings. While we were able to order from a menu, it quickly became obvious that almost everyone there was eating pizza, served by waiters offering various types on a continuing basis. However we ordered what we wanted, all seafood. The first problem was we requested wine that we were told was not available for four different wines!!! FOUR!!! Finally we settled for the best of what was available. The meals were well presented although they took a long time to arrive (obviously the priority went to the pizzas). The fish ala meuniere was quite good, but as experienced elsewhere in this city the shellfish were overcooked.
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