Restaurante "O Sagitário" — Restaurant in Ribeira Grande

Amazing lunch. Normally when the host gives you a list of specials of the day without prices, you prepare for good food and a commensurate price. Instead, we got a delicious soft goat cheese with a local spicy red sauce with fresh bread and a bowl of seafood soup with pastina (both shared) and then two grilled swordfish steaks perfectly prepared with the whitest melt-in-your-mouth and most delicious potatoes I've ever tasted and a fresh salad. With drinks, this all came to £22 ($33 CAD). I hope our tip was commensurate with the quality of the meal and not the price. Just east of the restaurant is a beautiful walk on the ocean coast leading to a...

I could never have guessed, no hoped, that such an unassuming place serves up such delicious food. We started with chopped octopus in oil and vinegar and some barnacles. Picking the flesh from the barnacles is rather time consuming but hey so is picking the meat from a lobster and this only sets you back 5 Euros ;). For mains we had grouper and white sword fish, both grilled to perfection. And, as everywhere on the island, the owners are...

Decent straight-forward place offering a €7.50 dish of a day as well as charcoal grilled meat and fish. Waitress was very helpful and friendly. Had barracuda with chips (€10 - fish excellent but could have had a bigger portion, chips standard mass produced stuff), and a tomato salad (€2 - unripe large tomatoes sliced with dried oregano, was fine, big portion). Overall was happy with...