The best restaurants Búzios

The Lorenzo-Pizzeria & cantina is of course an establishment that honours transalpine cuisine. It is a beautiful Italian table. The pizzas are made with fine dough and baked over a wood fire as in the country, a rarity in Brazil. Home-made pasta, picanha or seafood risotto, prepared with care and with noble and fresh ingredients. The beautiful wine list allows you to accompany your dishes with good Italian, Chilean or Argentinean wines by the glass. Regular concerts.

In Rio as in Buzios, "chez Michou" has become a must. This crêperie boasts an impressive menu of crêpes: there are over fifty to choose from. The pastries are pancake-like, and seem to treat guests before they head out to set the dance floor alight (it's usually packed on Saturday nights). It's good and not too expensive a way to fill up. Okay, it's pretty noisy when you want to talk, but it's perfect for watching the crowds go by in the rua das Pedras. You can also come in for a drink.

The Bananaland, not to be confused with the Banana da Terra de Paraty, has been a popular place since it opened in Buzios a quarter of a century ago. The chef Beto, owner of the premises, wanted to make Bananaland a compromise between good food and affordable cuisine. Close to the Santos-Dumont square, this high-flying "kilo" offers a good variety of very good dishes (25 salads and 25 hot dishes). Connoisseurs appreciate it. Some of the dishes have even won awards. Try their famous pancake with maracujá liqueur!

This modest fishermen's restaurant is located in front of the harbor, facing the boats and the sea. The setting is simple, but the view is breathtaking. Some tables are outside, others on a covered terrace, but the pleasure for the taste buds is the same. Very Brazilian dishes are served here, especially prepared fish specialties. The emblematic dishes are moquecas, grilled cherne (noble fish at rock-bottom prices here) and grilled lobster. Everything is good and leaves you with a taste for a return visit. Prices are very reasonable.

It's not a bar, it's a good fish restaurant. There are excellent moquecas, (vegetarians and vegans can enjoy excellent vegan moquecas ), succulent lobsters, fisherman's salad, grilled fish and squid. We were seduced by a plate of pink conger eel. Some customers were converted to seafood even though they weren't necessarily fans of it, that is to say. Admittedly, the restaurant is simple, but the decor and the dishes are worth the trip to Porto da Barra.

Salsa is an address that does not demerit since we discovered it in 2014. Here's another good kilo in the center of Búzios. The dishes on offer are well cooked: fish, meat, lobster, vegetables... No emphasis, but a very correct cuisine and a relatively sweet addition to Buzios. The starters, the main courses, the desserts, everything is up to the guests' expectations. Salsa offers a majority of carefully selected organic products. The cuisine is light and varied. The reception is very professional and pleasant.

This bakery-pastry shop is all about breads and cakes. There are more than twenty kinds of bread. If you are homesick, go there. Madeleines worthy of a pastry grandmother, croissants, baguettes that look like baguettes, bread with olives, foccacias. It's a compromise between a quality bakery and a French-inspired pastry. Breakfast and mini-brunch are an opportunity to taste sweet and savoury dishes as well as excellent small sandwiches.

In her restaurant-gallery, the Farinatta Bistrô & arte, chef Eloisa Ramos offers an inventive and creative menu. She takes pleasure in coming to explain the menu directly to her guests. Behind the names of mysterious dishes - gnocchi à la présidente, agneau profane, osso buco fin du monde -, we discover a delicious and surprising plate, and, at this level of gastronomy, a beautiful aesthetic sophistication. The wine list will allow you to best appreciate these corpus delicti de la gourmandise. The best gnocchis of the region for sure.

The Galeria is a great discovery of PF on Buzios since... 2014. This restaurant, located in the beautiful Insólito Boutique Hotel, offers varied cuisine in a French-Brazilian fusion style. The chef Marcelo works with as much happiness fish, seafood and meats. Here, the appetizer will be the breathtaking view of the Ferradura beach. The team of waiters around chef Rodrigo is very professional. A hanging garden on the sea... To discover absolutely if you can afford it, because at Buzios as elsewhere quality has a price.

The Bar do Zé (which is no longer just a bar, but one of the most popular restaurants in Búzios) is worth visiting for its original cuisine, with its emphasis on fish and sweet-salty mixes (e.g. grouper with banana and cashew nuts, succulent) and its divine setting facing Praia do Armação, on the Orla Bardot. Its straw hut style gives it a rustic and chic feel. Candles in the evening add to the romanticism of the place. The places near the terrace to see the sea lend themselves magically to a dinner for two.

Restaurante do David has been serving seafood dishes for over thirty years. On the terrace or in a simply decorated dining room, you can enjoy all kinds of classic dishes (many seafood dishes) of good quality for the advertised price, even if lovers of spices will be disappointed. Octopus Provençal is one of the house specialties. Otherwise, lobster lovers can choose from the aquarium on the terrace in summer, under the owner's smiling eye. Feijoada on Fridays.

Argentinean restaurant, to satisfy the strong community of holidaymakers hermanos (brothers, that's how Brazilians call their southern neighbors). Obviously, the best meat in asado (barbecue) in all its forms: picanha, entrecote, olho de bife... All to be accompanied by a good bottle of Malbec. Very pleasant patio. Tango shows are offered on Tuesday nights. Obviously, if you don't like meat, you will lose a bit of the soul of this restaurant which puts forward the Argentinean traditions.

It's hard to miss this red establishment on the Orla Bardot with its enthroned Buddhas. This large establishment run by a Frenchman is a restaurant, a louge and a music bar. The diversity of the offer is in no way incompatible with the unquestionable quality of each of the activities on offer. Pizzas, seafood pastas, paella, shrimp or lobster moqueca - the dishes are varied, good and good value for money. Every evening, from 8 p.m. onwards, musical groups provide talented entertainment for guests' meals.