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    Restaurante Caneta

    4.8 (20 reviews)
    ModeratePortuguese
    Closed 12:00 pm - 3:00 PM, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating

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    Gabriel F.

    Best restaurant on the island. The highlight of our trip to the Azores. We enjoyed a fantastic early steak dinner after a morning swimming in Biscoitos. We were a big party but the portions were more than enough to satisfy everyone. The restaurant itself was also a great spot with beautiful decor and a really nice courtyard. Highly recommend.

    Very nice atmosphere
    Daniel Y.

    We picked this restaurant for lunch after our drive up the Serra Santa Barbara yesterday. Really great atmosphere here and looks like it's pretty much a local favorite with large family gatherings. Menu has a lot to offer. Started with their version of lapas, which was delicious. 1 of the best so far. Wife had the whole grilled red snapper, Daughter had the squid and shrimp skewers and I ordered the Caneta steak. This restaurant had a more rounded flavor profiles than most of the others on the island. My steak was tasty but still a little tough. It was a bone in sirloin, I've saw pics of the same dish with bone in rib eye steak. Did I say it was very tasty? Which is hard to find in most the restaurants on the island, usually just salty. Waiters were very attentive and and very informative. I highly recommend this restaurant.

    Ajay R.

    Delicious but limiting. If you're a non beef or pork eater like myself, you'll not find much on the menu here. I've resigned myself to this in much of the Azores but at most places I'm still able to slap together a more than decent meal. Here it was a struggle. Even the fish alcatra, which was the whole reason I came here in the first place, turned out to have beef in it. That being said, what we DID order was really good! The grilled shrimp were outrageous. The lapas was good, but I still think Ponta do Garajau in Sao Miguel had the best version that we tried. The grounds and the restaurant were super lovely, and I'm sure it would be a great dinner place, but as a late lunch grab it was scant. It was situated in the town over from the Biscoitos swimming pools, so it's a nice thing to do afterwards while you're exploring the North of Terceira.

    Hamburger with bone marrow!
    Maile T.

    Happy to be able to make it back to Restaurante Caneta! Five years ago it was a fabulous dinner in their beautiful dining room upstairs. Today it's lunch downstairs in what they call a snack bar - but still decked out in beautiful woods and wonderful food! I'm glad I've been following Restaurante Caneta online because we were able to ask for off menu items they are testing (shhhh!). Any trip I make to Terceira will always include a meal here!

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    Joshua P.

    Glad that this place was recommended to us and worth the drive. Food was really good. Almost all of it was made and prepared in house. Blood sausage and linguisa was spectacular.

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    Pykee C.

    Came here on the first night on the island through a friends recommendation. It is quite a few minutes drive from Praia or from the airport; although it takes awhile to get there, the drive is nice and the food experience is great! The most popular dish here is the skewered steak meat. They hang it on a hanging rack and they add garlic butter as they serve it hanging vertically. The meat is juicy, tender and tastes fresh as if they just butchered it. The island has lots of cows which is their primary source of food and you get that here. I also had grilled cod fish dish called bacalao and it also tasted fresh. Seafood is another source food on the island and this restaurant definitely give you that freshness with this dish. The staffs here are friendly and it seems like they are all family members. The young man that served us was funny and the rest of the staff were very helpful as well. The ambience is really nice, quite and comfortable. The decor and wooden furnishings and interior structure are beautiful. Overall, I would highly recommend this place. They made a big impression with me on my first day on the island and I hope provide it to you as well.

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    Beira Mar Sao Mateus - Fish of the Dat Selection

    Beira Mar Sao Mateus

    4.5(39 reviews)
    15.3 km
    €€

    I don't know what I can say about Beira Mar... it is an absolute seafood lover's dream come true…read more Everything is caught that day from the lampas to the fish, ready to be prepared as you find suitable or let the chef and staff season it traditionally. The seafood soup/chowder/bisque bread bowl is a MUST, as it is foolishly cheap for what can be a whole meal for a person. Bread is baked fresh that day, in house. The fish can be done a few different ways, but best split and grilled (per our server's suggestion). There will be butter, there will be herbs, there will BE GARLIC!!! It's basically heaven from the wood or charcoal fired grills delivered straight to your table... after you have finished your soup/chowder and lampas of course (think mussels meet escargot). Reservations are almost a must here, as the locals love it as much as tourists do and even in the off-season we almost go turned away because we hadn't made a reservation. Buuuuuuuut, the staff and owner were sympathetic (we had just arrived and probably looked in rare form) so they sat us and we loved every bite of everything we got. Let the server guide you, once they know what you like they will put together an unforgettable meal for you. I wish we had been there when not raining and during the day so we could see the ocean and the open doors/windows of the patio and beyond. I dream of Beira still to this day... months later... as there are very few places like this in the states, which is just a damn shame tbh. If you are on the island this is 1 of 2 MUST visit places in my opinion. However, it is the ONE must when you figure in price-value proposition into ranking. Keep doing what you are doing, Beira Mar - you've set a ridiculously high bar for the Azores!

    Had an excellent seafood dinner here. Our server brought us over to the fish case and explained…read morewhat all the fresh catches of the day were. We opted for the grouper and another local fish which is escaping me at the moment...but both were phenomenal, cooked to perfection, and well seasoned. Well worth the short drive from downtown Angra.

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    View of the harbor

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    Seafood Stew (served in bread bowl)

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    Taberna Roberto - Limpets

    Taberna Roberto

    4.9(17 reviews)
    14.2 km

    I'm not very prone to hyperbole, but this place deserves to be a Michelin rated restaurant. It's…read moreabsurd that this place is under any sort of radar. It should be up there with the best of them. You should be travelling to Terceira just to eat here. I'm about to go re-rate, and lower the rating on every other restaurant I ate at on this trip because nothing was comparable. Had I eaten here on my first day, everything else would pale by comparison, and probably ruin the vacation. So I guess by that measure, it's probably a good thing that I ate here on the second to last day of the trip! Okay, so let me start by telling you where we failed, so you can do better. Call and make a reservation the morning of the day BEFORE you plan to eat here (so approx 36 hrs ahead). The reason being, there is no menu here! You just tell them what you want, and they'll tell you what's possible given the farm/supply situation. If you call too late (like we did), you'll be limited to the a la carte options (which were still amazing), but the other way is much more intimate. Roberto or his wife will have a discussion with you on the phone to plan your party's meal. Some of the exotic options include goat, duck, rabbit, a whole roasted pig, but again... Depends on what's available. If you screw up and are too late, upon arrival, Roberto will invite you into the kitchen and show you what's fresh and available right now. The options seem to usually include grilled fish, pork ribs or steak. Your appetizers are cheese or lapas. Though we missed out on the curated menu option, the a la carte experience was still out of this world. The fish was the best we had on the whole trip by far. The cheese was also the best as well. Their desserts were decadent. And all the while Roberto or his wife would check in on us, stop to chit chat, and it just made the whole evening that much more personal. As with other places we found, tables do not turn over here. Your meal will take at least a couple hrs, and no one is in any rush. The personal touch here is phenomenal. It's an experience you won't soon forget, and for sure, the next time I come back here I'm going to plan well ahead so we get the full experience. I sincerely hope they can keep it going this way! Bravo!

    We dined here while visiting in 2023 and rated number one on the island. They have an excellent…read morewine selection and an expansive menu. It's at the top of list later month.

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    Taberna Roberto - Wood Oven and kitchen

    Wood Oven and kitchen

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