Santiago Beach Bar — Restaurant in Funchal

Despite - or maybe because of - its basic simplicity there's a lovely ambience to this friendly relaxed bar set on a small terrace just above the sea near the Sao Tiago Fort. Varied and competitively priced drinks menu including cocktails (delicious mojitos!!) together with a selection of simple snacks/light meals - tasty, generous and good value! Our combined food and drink bill for the 3 hours or so we spent there was just over 40 Euros. Easy to miss if you don't know it's there: having reached the end of the Hotel Santa Maria don't enter Forte Sao Tiago but turn right just before it passing between small boats and other assorted maritime paraphernalia. If you end up in the sea you've gone too far! NB - If like us you're Triominoes fans, barman Sergio is expert at retrieving lost tiles that have dropped and bounced over the edge of the tarrace and fallen between pebbles on the rocky beach below!...

The place atmosphere is amazing all day long. Near the sea with amazing relaxed views. There’s a mix of locals and foreigns that live in the area or are visiting. It stills have a traditional local feeling. Regarding the service, mixed feelings. Sometimes better, sometimes worse depending on the time of the year and the waiters at the time. Drinks served in plastic glasses, this is really bad and something that the management should definitely address in order to enhance the place and the overall experience there. Totally hate 🫣…many times give up to go there just by remember that I will have a drink in a cheap, unpleasant...

I love this place! My fav one! ❤️❤️❤️ I have countless wonderful, beautiful moment here. I really recommend it! Very quiet place, furthermore a perfect place if you want to get drunk near the ocean and suck vitamin Ocean. Great food, I mean I'm a vegetarian, but people rave about it.

The only downside is the service, they’re very very nice but sometimes they don't know that customers have empties in their glasses, and forgetting...