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Top 10 European food in Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil
Discover Restaurants offering the best European food in Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil. Brazil's former capital is renowned for its African-influenced cuisine, music and architecture. Known as "the Capital of Joy," because of its exuberant week-long Carnaval celebrations, Salvador brims with contemporary music and art amid architecture that has gone untouched since the 17th century.
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10. Taboada Bistrot
Overall Ratings
4 based on 166 reviews
Reviewed By PapagaioF
Great place to have dinner, lounge ambiance and classy decoration. For professional or private dinners. If you order meat, the cooking point is the French way and not the brazilian way (be aware of that). Service is quite fast and efficient. Personnel seems to enjoy doing the service. I recommend
9. Lafayette
Overall Ratings
4 based on 875 reviews
Reviewed By FM6565
Why is this place so highly rated? OK, the location is good: on a pleasant marina with beautiful views, and adjacent to other equally rated restaurants. There is also a reasonable selection of wines under BR$150, a rarity in Brazil. But that's about it. The service is good but could be better. The food is OK but disapointing at this price level. The fish or seafood doesn't even come close to comparable restaurants (e.g. Mistura) or even much simpler places such a Boteco do Camarão.As to the decor, it looks more than a shopping-mall cafeteria than a fine-drining restaurant.NOT worth the money they charge.
8. Chez Bernard
Overall Ratings
4 based on 241 reviews
With more than 55 years of history, the Chez Bernard restaurant in Gamboa de Cima reopens the public of Salvador at the end of 2018. Since 1963, opened by the French Monsieur Bernard, offers legitimate French cuisine and a cozy atmosphere, embellished by
Reviewed By ThiagoScarton
I went to this restaurant expecting great service, food and wine.To start, a poor couvert, bread, butter, horrible chicken fois pate and a ok chutney, expensive 15 per person.A bottle of wine costs 3 to 4 times the price in a wine store, totally unacceptable.I asked a magret de canard with cara pure. Cara is a tipe of mandioc. The magret was overcooked and the pure had truffles oil. terrible mixture, Cara does not match with truffles. I sent it back and didn't received any feedback about it. The next plate I ordered, had to be cancelled 15 minutes later due to a lack of ingredients: tuesday night, empty restaurant and lack of ingredients? I decided no to eat.When I tried my girlfriend Gnocchi... again terrible disapointment... absolutelly overcooked. Like a pure...Well, in the end, the view is the only good thing you'll find in this place.If you want a French restaurant, try another city, because my beloved Salvador, dos not have one that is worth a visit.To finish, the maitre, wearing a suit, was smilling at me like, this guy sucks... So.... don't try this one.Other great options in Salvador:JAPANESE: SOHO, at Marina Bahia.MEAT: 496 GRILL, close to Marina Bahia.LOCAL SPECIALTIES: PARAÃSO TROPICAL, the famous, cozy and trendy... fantastic.There's also a cheaper option: DONANA, 2 locations: BROTAS and VILAS DO ATLANTICO, simple place, but fantastic food!!! Try a moqueca de camarão(shrimp) or ensopado de camarão.SUNSET HAPPY HOUR: AQUA, at Marina Bahia...Have fun in Salvador!!!!
7. Pelo Bistro
Overall Ratings
4 based on 239 reviews
In a relaxed atmosphere in the daytime and more romantic for dinner, Pelô Bistrô restaurant offers very tasty food with a tropical touch, honouring the local ingredients, in particular the dishes based on seafood and fish. The atmosphere at the restaurant
Reviewed By jamesallardice
This restaurant is part of the Casa do Amarelindo hotel. We were staying in the hotel and decided to eat here with a few friends who were staying in a different hotel. We had a very enjoyable dinner for 6 people.I ordered the moqueca which turned out to be delicious (it's a north-eastern Brazilian speciality and highly recommended!) and throughout our group everyone was happy with their food. We all ordered starters, plus a couple of bottles of wine and overall I think the bill was just over £100 which seemed very reasonable.Service was excellent - the staff seem fairly young and inexperienced but did a good job. The manager suggested that I tip the waiter at the end of the meal which I never appreciate - if service has been good I will give a tip without being hassled for it.If you're staying in the hotel, or elsewhere in Pelourinho, I would recommend a dinner here.Dear James, thank you very much for your positive feedback about the meal you had in our restaurant with your friends. We´re very happy to know that you were fully satisfied by the quality of the food served at your table, by the service provided by our waiters team, and by the price you paid. We confirm that Moqueca is emblematic of Salvador´s gastronomy; the one we prepare in our restaurant is made with fish filets (no bones) and shrimps and has all the typical side orders of a classic moqueca: rice, farofa and pirão. The only small change we have is regarding the use of the ingredient that makes the identity of the Bahia food: dendê oil (in fact raw palm tree oil). In traditional and family cooking, they may use generously this ingredient but, for our moqueca, we have chosen to have a much more balanced use of the dendê oil in order to make our moqueca lighter. We have to deeply apologize for the discomfort you felt regarding tips. In first place we need to clarify that this is absolutely not the politics of the hotel´s management, but a personal and clumsy initiative of the receptionist on duty that night. Service in Brazil is optional although being part of the waiter salary like in the US; its charge (10%) is indicated on the bill and you´re free to pay it or not in case of bad service; additional tipping is of course possible depending of the degree of satisfaction, but be sure that our staff is oriented to never hassle our customers for tipping. Looking forward to the pleasure of welcoming you back when visiting Salvador again, best regards, Didier and Gilles.
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6. Casa Lisboa
Overall Ratings
4 based on 433 reviews
Reviewed By slonenka
We choosed the restaurant due to the reviews on this site and it was a good choice! First of all the decoration is romantic, exquisite with soft lights. The waiters are attentive and courteous, really didn´t seem Bahia. Also the food was more then acceptable, especially we liked the couvert, it was pretty complete. We tried the fish and baby squid, I can mark as 4 of 5 but for Brasil - very good. I can recommend the restaurant to everybody.
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5. Casa di Vina Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 1159 reviews
Located in the old house of the poet Vinicius de Moraes and actress Gessy Gesse in Itapuã, Casa di Vina Restaurant is the meeting of gastronomy with poetry. Specialized in Mediterranean and Bahian cuisine, the restaurant has on its menu delicious pasta, s
Reviewed By andremoysescardoso
The location is gorgeous right by the beach and next to an hotel. It is the former house of the late bossa nova legend Vinicius de Morais. The average dinner price is really on the top range (USD$30 which is high for Salvador's standards). Mainly seafood the dishes were just ok taste-wise. Surprisingly the Steak (Picanha) with special potatoes was divine.
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4. Di Liana
Overall Ratings
4 based on 537 reviews
Reviewed By VisionOne
Good italian restaurants are rarly to find in Salvador. Thats probably why Di Liana is quite popular. It's a good italian restaurant/trattoria. Typical italian dishes adapted to the brasilian taste of food. We choose an entry and 2 pasta dishes. All of it was good but not mind blowing. The service was nice but not too courteous. The ambiente is typical italian old style trattoria with nice decoration. A pasta main dish is approx. 50 to 60 R$ which is quite expensive but a normal price for good food restaurants in Salvador.
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3. Du Chef Arte e Gastronomia By Lucius Gaudenzi
Overall Ratings
4 based on 788 reviews
Bistro Restaurant, modern and contemporary cuisine. With seasonal menu, where Chef, graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Paris, always seeking the best products available at the time, including using herbs from their own organic garden. Lucius and Roberta, make
Reviewed By rjdegen
We selected this restaurant based on the evaluations on the TripAdvisor and because the Chef put his name on the restaurant. The first impression was positive, friendly staff, nice decor, interesting menu, and good wine list. The problem started when ou orders arrived. My ossobuco was so hard that I could not cut the meat, and my wife's fish was only half cooked. Because half of the fish was very good and the complements were nice, she decided to eat the good part of the fish. Because I could not eat my ossobuco, the restaurant staff offered to replace the dish. I ordered a steak. What a surprise. My knife could almost not cut the steak. Because my wife had in the meantime eaten her half fish, I decided to give up on ordering an edible dish, and we ordered a chocolate mousse for desert that was excellent. When I had to return the second meat dish, I asked to speak with the chef that put his name on the restaurant. I was told that he had left when we arrived and that a sub-chef was in his place. This obviusly does not excuse the horrible cooking, but may explain our bad experience. So if you what to try the restaurant, I revomend checking if the chef is supervising the kitchen.Good evening Mr. Ronald,It was an incredible pleasure to welcome you to our restaurant. Even more to know that you liked our house and our service. We work hard and with great love so that all details are important to our customers.We are very sorry for what happened with the facts mentioned. We've tried a contact for a few times with the phone number you provided us with no success.It really is not our standard and so we seek immediate solutions, thus making our customers have the best impression possible of the restaurant.We thank you immensely for your feedback and look forward to the necessary information for you to arrange.Once again our sincere apologies and certain that we will take great pleasure in welcoming you and serving with the standard Du Chef to be.King Regards,Lucius Gaudenzi
2. Restaurante Larriquerri
Overall Ratings
4 based on 798 reviews
Family restaurant that works with concepts of affective culinary using the family memories as reference.
Reviewed By EddieLiu85
We came to the restaurant 20.00 without reservation. It took us approximately 2 hours to get a table. No problem with that, but during the waiting no one came out and gave us any updates or asked if we wanted something more to drink or eat. After getting our table, we ordered our main courses and it took 55minutes to get our food. Food was ok, the fettuccine with shrimp and pesto was a disappointment. Shrimp were to overcooked and very dry. So like the title, ok food but slow kitchen and so-so service. Hi!We apologize for your experience. Yes, the kitchen was a little bit slower than normal yesterday because we were working with one cook less. Sorry for that, we can assure that this is not normal. We think that the lack of communication (because of language) its a thing we need to adjust in our service, especially at the waiting room. However, it's good to receive feedbacks like this, so then we can do better and better. The only thing we think you should have done when you tasted the shrimp dish is to have questioned immediately, so we could give to you a proper one, or fix it in other way.Grateful,Gabriel G.Manager
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1. A Casa Vidal
Overall Ratings
4 based on 1495 reviews
New Adress: Alameda das Cajazeiras, 417 Caminho das Ãrvores - Salvador Ba (CLOSE TO Brinkaê) NUEVA DIRECCIÃN: Alameda das Cajazeiras, 417 Caminho das Ãrvores - Salvador Ba (CLOSE TO Brinkaê)
Reviewed By tiagogiffoni
I have been there with my fiancee for a casual visit but I was surprised by the good quality of the service and the true high quality of food (high end). I ate surf and turf (lobster and stake), i had visited most of Salvador Restaurants but this one is now favorite, also the owner welcomes you and tell about the restaurant, and the dishes. No more words to describe this amazing experience. Hi Tiago!Só happy to read that.We try hard every single day to provide the best experience for you. Our restaurant is more than a business, itâs a way of life. Our goal is make our client pleased.Thanks a lot!Vivi
