Sabores do Chef — Restaurant in Praia da Vitória

This restaurant is a bit hard to spot, and you enter through a very unassuming door at the concrete ferry terminal building. Once inside though, you are in a beautiful setting with branches and silk flowers on the ceiling and wonderful views of the harbor and ocean.

Chef Paulo clearly puts his heart into every dish on the menu. Of course, the fish is very fresh, but the creativity, preparation and presentation are all first class.

In addition to eating a great lunch and dinner at Sabores do Chef, our large group enjoyed a personalized breakfast each day of our stay at a nearby rented guesthouse. Each day, Paulo featured a different local specialty that gave us something new to anticipate each morning when we woke.

I highly recommend you seek out Chef Paulo and Sabores do Chef for your visit...

Chef Paulo is amazing! He turns out wonderful food that could only come from the heart. I had the octopus alcatra and there are not enough words to describe how delicious it was. The octopus was cooked spot on- not over or under cooked. This is a beautiful restaurant at the ferry dock. The outside of the building is very industrial, but once inside you will be pleasantly surprised. There is also a delightful view of the water.

I traveled as part of a group of 10 and Chef Paulo also came to our house and made breakfast for our group every day. Each day there was another specialty of the Azores featured. Worth getting up for 8:30...

What a horrible experience. We got to the restaurant without a reservation. We were told that we could be seated but please wait. We waited for a long time and finally were seated. From that point on we were completely and totally ignored. The two weight people were serving two other tables each and kept going by us promising us the menu promising a spread but not doing any of it. After an hour and a half we got up and left. NEVER Had this type of experience in my whole life. Really...