Food and drinks were fabulous! Get the regional steak, garlic bread and house wine. The flan…read moredessert was really good. Best meal in San Miguel!

Great price for some sirloin steak in a great garlic sauce. Be warned, the cook on the steak varies…read moregreatly, so you might need to send it back to cook some more. Overall it was a bit salty for me, but a solid and filling meal.

This place looks super cool, but I would recommend trying another place in the general area. I'm…read morenot sure if it was because the holiday (New Years) had just passed, but the meal started with a list of what was NOT available which was more than a quarter of the menu -- which also included no white wine by the glass and no beer. The white sangria pitcher was almost too bitter to drink. The croquettes were a tasty starter -- but the cheese wrapped in filo dough was a non-starter. The beet risotto was pleasant but not necessarily memorable. The Hot Cold dessert was a big disappointment. It has beautiful presentation, but we could not finish even the small dessert. Our service was less than ideal. The restaurant was not full, yet you could see their intense stress levels. With the high quality of dinners we'd had for similar and even lower price in the area, we really expected a lot more.

This was my favorite meal on our week-long trip to Sao Miguel. The food was impeccable. My husband…read morehad the seared tuna, and it was cooked perfectly rare. A quick dip in soy sauce, and it was exploding with flavor. It's the best seared tuna we've ever had. I got the octopus legs, which was the BEST octopus I've ever had. And this is coming from someone who immediately orders octopus as soon as she sees it on the menu. I had octopus four times in a week in the Azores, and this was the best. I don't know what they do to the octopus to make it so tender, but it melts in your mouth like butter, and the ends of the tentacles are crispy perfection. Even the side dishes are good here! My octopus came with perfectly cooked and savory potatoes and Brussels sprouts, as well as a small fresh salad. My husband's tuna came with a broccoli steak and the same perfect potatoes. I know I use perfect a lot in this review, but that's all I could say about this food. It was executed that well. My only complaint would be that there is a slight smell of something like bleach throughout the restaurant. You get used to it, but it was off-putting at first. Note that you will definitely need to make a reservation in order to get a table. If I recall, I was able to make one through Facebook a week in advance pretty easily. You can't miss a dinner here while I'm Ponta Delgada.

Great wine selection and perfectly cooked steak. Solid choice of side dishes. All around good.read more

Steak was good, nice salad, great service. We had the tenderloin, that worked well for us!read more

Take my words literally for the following review: Of all the restaurants in Porta Delgarda this is…read moreassumedly the one to avoid. A large piece of tuna devoid of taste, and way too undercooked. Like a en entire head of boiled cauliflower as an accompaniment? Honest to God. It was billed tuna salad but served as a slab with zero greens. And the tough beef "sirloin". C'mon..not even swimming in its own juices. Hard inedible garlic on top. The french fries were cold and cooked long before I arrived Wow what a lousy place it eat. My stomach rumbles on..

Extremely disappointed. The mystery pieces of meat on the table were not good. . The steak was…read morefilet but not a good piece, covered with almost raw cloves of garlic and a slice of red pepper. No vegetables except for French fries which could have been cooked longer. We arrived first but 5 other couples were served before us. No ambience. Dessert was a pretty miserable piece of cheesecake with some strawberry jam on top. Chunks of bread on table not as good as usual bread in other places . No butter on table. Server needed to go to charm school. No ambience. Price very high.

Fabulous spot in the town of Furnas East by the bus stop. Seating outside for the bar and…read morerestaurant inside. Service and food are excellent. Prices are reasonable and it was a great spot to hang and have a beer and a bite.

This is the best restaurant in Furnas. The food was delicious, I had some amazing cheese, and the…read moretuna was perfectly cooked. The nicest tuna I had on the whole island. I really loved the setting, especially the outside area which had these really cool bar seats carved from tree trunks. But the best part was the service, everyone was so friendly and welcoming, especially Diogo. I will come back next time I return.

When staying in this area there are limited choices of restaurants.  This one came recommended from…read moreour food tour and the hotel. The menu was an offering of solid local fare and the views, especially sunset, were great.  Sometimes a bad waiter can be a buzz kill and cause me to rate the food or total experience worse than i should. We ordered the cheese appetizer, thinking we were getting the soft cheese and not understanding there was a choice between soft and firm cheese.  The waiter didn't not ask us which one we wanted and brought the one we did not want but ate anyway - its cheese! We asked for the tuna to be medium rare and it came out well.  We had no chance to tell him because we could not flag him down.  The sides were standard but but overcooked.  The steak au pouvre was well cooked and tasty.   The manager seemed intent on running a tight ship and I let him know about the bad service and he took it seriously.  For that reason alone, I would suggest giving it another shot if you are in town

We chose Alabote after a few other restaurants in the Ribeira Grande area were closed due to the…read moreseason and stormy March weather. The location is beautiful, and the patio looks like it would be wonderful on a nice day. The meal had some highlights: the garlic shrimp was delicious, the local Azorean red wine was excellent, and the wreckfish was tasty, though a bit bony. The potatoes were also very good. The limpets and desserts were just okay for us. Service was friendly and polite, but a bit confusing. We had multiple servers throughout the meal, and the timing felt off at times. Overall, it was a decent experience in a stunning spot. I'd return for a drink, some shrimp, and the view on a sunny day.

Top notch! My wife and I arrived 5 minutes after they opened for dinner without a reservation and…read moreit's a good thing we did as we were seated. The two parties that walked in right after us were not so lucky and were turned away. You can order off menu as well as from the catch of the day, which are all on display and were more than likely swimming that morning. The hostess, and I imagine also the owner, explained what each fresh catch was and how many of each were available. We chose barracuda from the fresh catch and it was perfection. From the menu we chose limpets (which is a local shellfish cooked in garlic and butter) and the fried mackerel, which was mind-blowingly amazing! A complementary shot of a local liqueur is provided post-meal and was a perfect end to a perfect dinner.

Highly recommend you make a reservation as many people got turned away at the door. Call them up or…read morehave the hotel call. The family is very proud of their restaurant and very welcoming and kind. Lots of fresh fish! Will remember this meal forever

Amazing food, one of the best meals we've ever had. Definitely the best meal of our trip. We got a…read morebunch of different starters, my boyfriend raved about the beef tartar but that's not for me personally. We got the ribeye to share and it was delicious. Everything was seasoned/cooked perfectly. Their chocolate mousse dessert is also amazing! The atmosphere is also great, great aesthetic and it's overlooking the marina.

Decent pizza but quite big. I got the carbonara pizza and it was pretty good. Easy to get a seatread more