Cantina da Praça — Restaurant in Horta

This is one of the fancier and better spots I'm Horta. It has a very cool atmosphere with music playing and cool furniture. The service is very good and polite. We had a couple of steaks that were very delicious. I asked for mine to be medium rare, however part of the steak came back pretty rare, of not raw, however they were kind enough to cook it some more. The taste was on point. Everything had amazing flavor. We also had the creme Brule which was amazing along with a cocktail that also was delicious. The only downside is that you'll pay much more for this meal than other places. Granted, there are only one or two other spots in Horta that even have this type of food, so it makes sense. I think it was worth the price. Few things to note: there is no menu handed to you, when you enter into the main space, the menu is written on the wall. Additionally, you have to pay for the water which is kind of a pain. I'm still giving 5 stars cause we had a great experience and these few things didn't bother me. I'd come back. Forgot to take photos of the food so I only have...

I reserved a table with some friends for dinner and the experience has been extremely negative. It took almost 1 hour before someone came to take our orders, and still half of the table wasn't ready with tablecloth / glasses etc (and it wouldn't have been if we didn't ask it explicitly). The table itself wasn't that clean, likely sticky from previous meals. When we were finally able to order, half of the menu wasn't available and we ordered some starters and mains. After another hour we got our drinks but no food had come to the table and after asking for some updates we were told that the starters were canceled (by whom?!) and they were only preparing the mains. After 2 hours with no food we decided to leave and the server wanted us to pay for the whole order, that we never saw (including the starters that were presumptively canceled). I cannot judge the food but the value for money likely wasn't the best since we asked what was in the mixed appetizers and it was bread and...

Great Restaurant! We read a lot of comments that the service is bad, that the prices are to high or the portions are to small... We made today a total different experience! The food, staff and prices are great!!! I ordered a dry aged rib eye steak for 22 Euro and it was absolutely delicious and minimum 400g heavy. At home in Germany you would have to pay for this quality at least twice as much and I mean at least... We visited some highly recommended steak houses on the Azores but this steak was the best so far on my trip. The other dishes were very delicious as well. E.g. please try the fish soup or the roasted sweet potatoes, they are very good. The 2 lady's from the staff who were taking care of us were absolutely great and attentive. Perfect service. Thank you very much for the great evening. We can definitely highly recommend...