Ópera Restaurante — Restaurant in Região Geográfica Imediata de Manaus

A little overrated. The menu is very interesting. The atmosphere is a bit incongruent with the surroundings, pushing too hard to be a little too fancy. Beautiful salon, though. The waiters are very nice and seem well versed in the menu. Great staff. However, the kitchen seems to be unable to properly cook a medium rare fillet mignon. It took them three tries to get it medium, but the two first were past well done. My family had finished their dinner until I was able to start mine. The waiters, however, were very friendly and seemed as embarrassed by the kitchen failures as I was to send it back again and again. Beautiful presentation, and the açaí sauce was very nice. Way overpriced given the inability to cook...

One good thing about this place was the look. The restaurant and the view of the opera house were pretty but please don’t let the looks fool you. The kitchen was soooo slow! It took them an hour to bring out one dish even though the restaurant was almost completely empty. They completely forgot about the other three dishes we ordered, it took so long for the duck rice to come out that you would think the chef was caching it once we ordered. The staff were submissive but polite. The food was not very good, we ordered the duck rice and fish stew which were both okay. The ramen tasted like vinegar and was a tiny portion. Even the ice cream was bad, how do you even mess up ice cream! I would not...

I went for dinner and ordered the pirarucu dish. The staff was very attentive and friendly. However, it's impossible not to mention the disrespect shown by the foreigners who frequent the place. It's important to emphasize that smoking is FORBIDDEN in Brazil. Management shouldn't allow this behavior; it gives the impression that if you're a foreigner, you don't have to...