Restaurante Sabores D'Itália — Restaurant in Caldas da Rainha

Very disappointing, I expected a lot more from a restaurant that appears on the Michelin site “A business that takes care of both details and organization”

The dining room is pleasant, modern, and well-designed; the menu features a wide selection of Italian dishes, including an extensive pizza selection. The wine list is immense and well-presented, with a wide range of wines to choose from. Michelin places the price at $$ but our experience was $$$. The food and service were not up to our expectations.

We ordered the Lobster Cannelloni as a starter to share. The dish was well presented; the seafood inside was bland and lacked seasoning, while the Bechamel was well seasoned. The dish overall was dry and tasted stale like it was prepared days in advance or sat under the warmer for too long.

For our main courses, we ordered Baked Sea Scallops With Moscatel Wine Sauce and Green Lasagne With Monk Fish And Shrimps. The Scallops were very good but the accompanying risotto was over salted. The lasagna (Green refers to the spinach lasagna noodles) was not good; again, the seafood in the dish was very bland and not seasoned at all. I am at a loss as to why the seafood in the lasagna and the Cannelloni tasted so bland and un-seasoned when they were included in a dish with seasoned sauces. Perhaps they were frozen too long or added to the dishes ala minute, avoiding any seasoning.

Last was the poor service. We started off with good service as we were one of only a few occupied tables. Once the dining room started to fill, the service disappeared, causing long delays between courses and the inability to clear our plates or receive the bill. The server tried to apologize, stating that someone failed to show up for work, yet the manager kept taking walk-in guests to fill the restaurant despite the inability...

We came here after striking out at the Kabuki sushi place around the other side of the block.

This restaurant has great aspirations and delivers on most fronts. Food is good and fresh, service is on point, it has been renovated tastefully, bread is baked in house, etc.

We ordered food and wine, got all of our dishes served at the same time and overall, the table was very happy with the result. Some dishes were outstanding (the tuna tataki came with a delicious lemon risotto) and some others were just fine.

They don't get 5 stars due to these minor hiccups and the fact that they are a little expensive for the area. I'm fine with paying for quality ingredients but I'm not fine ordering the same bottle of wine I ordered the day before at a different restaurant, and paying twice as much.

Well deserved recommendation on the Michelin guide. You won't be disappointed if you come, just be prepared for fine dining and a price tag to come...

If you have not yet been to Sabores d'Itália on the Praça 5 de Outubro, do yourself a favor and go! Not only is the food really delicious, but the service is elegant…and the sauces!! OMG the sauces! I got the melon with Parma ham and mint mayonnaise as my starter, the salmon in citrus sauce as my main (a fantastic citrus sauce and coriander micro greens made it just unbelievable), and the tiramisu for dessert (the least great part of the meal. It’s delicious and creamy, with powdered cocoa on top and not too sweet, but it’s not tiramisu). Oh, and the house sparkling white wine (champagne served in a flute with a rim strawberry) is so delicious (not too dry, but also not sweet) and you can buy a bottle for €15.50 to take home! I really liked it the first time we went for dinner, but today we had lunch and it just blew me away! My husband had the baked onion soup and lasagna. Truly 5...