Reviews - Café de São Bento
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Miguel R. • 4 reviews
January 12, 2025
10/10Amazing food and vibe at good prices.
Daniel M. • 1 review
January 9, 2025
10/10Loved every bit. Service was amazing, very nice and cozy atmosphere. Steak was perfect, melted in the mouth. 100% recommend
Irina T. • 9 reviews
January 5, 2025
10/10We loved Cafe de Sao Bento. The atmosphere was very cozy. The food was extremely tasty and the service excellent. We had a great dinner and would love to come back.
Luis S. • 4 reviews
January 7, 2025
10/10Lovely ambience with a steak that will make you want to comeback
Fanna N. • 1 review
December 31, 2024
10/10It was an amazing experience, great food and lovely staff.
Aylin E. • 1 review
January 3, 2025
10/10Excellent
Luka M. • 3 reviews
January 1, 2025
10/10special atmosphere and delicious food
Mikolaj K. • 71 reviews
December 27, 2024
9/10Fantastic ambience and super cozy interior (very unusual for Lisbon), good service, great lunch set menu for 25€. Place is tiny, so there’s not enough place. Also theme with „ring to enter” destroys the experience as every few minutes the doorbell rings and people queue in the middle of the restaurant waiting for the table to be assigned. Food wise, their legendary steak sauce is overrated but overall food quality and starters are very good.
Eyal L. • 6 reviews
December 30, 2024
10/10Fantastic place for friends or family dinner with great traditional food, excellent quality, same for the service, very kind and helpful waiters.
Elizabeth R. • 3 reviews
December 30, 2024
10/10Great food, simple and no pretence.
Pedro M. • 1 review
December 10, 2024
10/10The best steak in Lisbon. Service always personalised at excellency level. Very nice and cosy, great place. Highly recommended.
Newton v. • 7 reviews
December 8, 2024
9.5/10If your taste is meat, don´t miss Café de São Bento. Amazing experience.
Dorin L. • 5 reviews
December 10, 2024
10/10Great spot
David G. • 1 review
December 8, 2024
10/10One of the best steaks I have ever eaten. Perfectly cooked. Perfectly served. And the chocolate cake for dessert is perfectly named!
Fotios T. • 1 review
November 30, 2024
10/10Great service, made you feel at home.
Stuart A. • 8 reviews
December 3, 2024
9.5/10Francisco was fantastic with us. Just the right amount of attentiveness and leaving us alone to enjoy ourselves. Gave a great wine recommendation too. Food was delicious, the traditional São Bento steak is a must!
Andreas M. • 13 reviews
December 1, 2024
9.5/10Great food, nice atmosphere, discreet waiter
Ernesto R. • 3 reviews
November 22, 2024
10/10Amazing!!!
Emilie A. • 1 review
November 23, 2024
10/10Perfect.
Wyatt H. • 2 reviews
November 19, 2024
10/10An elegant space, the Cafe delivered on both food and service. Bonus points for being extra accommodating with our 3 year old daughter.
Café de São Bento • Owner
Thank you Mrs. Hoover, we hope to welcome you back soon!
Francisco M. • 2 reviews
November 17, 2024
10/10The experience was exactly what I expected—classic, elegant, and delightful in every detail. Highly recommended!"
Café de São Bento • Owner
Obrigado Sr. Francisco, até breve.
Daniel K. • 1 review
November 17, 2024
10/10We really enjoyed our dinner here. The atmosphere is great, the staff is professional and friendly and the food of course is also really delicious!
Café de São Bento • Owner
Thank you very much Mr. Kettner!
Flavio F. • 27 reviews
November 14, 2024
10/10A great experience where you can travel back in time and probably the best steak I had in Lisbon. Wonderful ambience, professional service and high quality of the meat. The tartare is delicious as it is the carpaccio. No surprise this is one of the top restaurants in Lisbon!
Café de São Bento • Owner
Thank you Mr. Foglietta!
Miguel F. • 2 reviews
November 12, 2024
9/10Sure, here's a revised version of your text: --- What an amazing place! Upon arrival, the staff were incredibly welcoming and attentive. We started with the carpaccio and the steak tartare. Both appetizers were well-seasoned, but we particularly enjoyed the carpaccio — it was incredibly fresh and simply perfect. For the main course, we opted for the signature steak. It was good, but we had slightly higher expectations. We found the dish to be a bit simpler than anticipated. Despite this, we thoroughly enjoyed the experience in this historic space in Lisbon. We’re definitely looking forward to returning to try more dishes in the future.
Pierre M. • 91 reviews
November 15, 2024
10/10Perfect service and very good lunch
Ralph S. • 36 reviews
November 12, 2024
10/10WE alway enjoy our dinners at Cafe São Bento, the food, and service are alway perfect, and Nuno is an amazing guy!!!!
Café de São Bento • Owner
Thank you Mr. Ralph!! See you soon !
Andrew M. • 2 reviews
November 8, 2024
10/10Fantastic and delicious steak, perfectly cooked and the sauce is amazing!
Café de São Bento • Owner
Thank you Andrew!
Callum M. • 1 review
November 3, 2024
9.5/10Beautiful old style steak house with wonderful food and perfect but discreet service. The house special was the best steak I have had in a long time.
Café de São Bento • Owner
Thank you Mr. McDonald! Hope to welcome you back soon.
Guilherme G. • 8 reviews
November 5, 2024
10/10Very good
Café de São Bento • Owner
Obrigado Sr. Guilherme, até breve!
Julia G. • 1 review
November 2, 2024
10/10everything was at a high level. the steaks were delicious. Our waiter was the best we could have met.
Café de São Bento • Owner
Thank you Julia! Hope to see you soon!
Pamela S. • 1 review
October 31, 2024
10/10The setting was wonderful. The service was excellent, very attentive and knowledgeable. The food, drinks, dessert, all were super.
Rishad P. • 9 reviews
October 21, 2024
7/10This is a beautiful restaurant. You feel like you’re a character on the set of a play. Theatre is afoot. You’re lead to your tiny table by a dapper, elderly man, and by the time you sit down, you’ve left contemporary Lisbon behind, and you’re now in the 1930s. The service is impeccable. The wine list is impressive. The steak, I’m very sad to say (because this is a steak restaurant) is terrible. They use that silly restaurant technique of perforating the steak in the belief that it cooks it through, when all this does is cause the juices to run out sooner while it rests. My steak was a good cut of meat, but dull and woolly and chewy, even as a medium rare. Ah well. It may have been worth the experience, perhaps — once.
Mary H. • 1 review
October 17, 2024
10/10The food and cocktails were really delicious. Our waiter was absolutely wonderful and made our night a truly great experience. Have already highly recommended Cafe de Sao Bento to friends.
Bernadette S. • 2 reviews
October 14, 2024
10/10Great food ,aervuce and ambiance
Julie C. • 1 review
October 16, 2024
10/10Delicious food, faultless friendly service, old fashioned charm
rachel a. • 1 review
October 9, 2024
10/10Fantastic service. Very cool atmosphere, a meal to remember! Will recommend!
Margarida G. • 3 reviews
October 15, 2024
9/10Good steak. Amazing carpaccio and green salad.
Sandra L. • 1 review
October 14, 2024
10/10Amazing service!! Food was 10/10. We are from Chicago which is a big food/ steak town and we we te very impressed. Definite must when in Lisbon!
Andy B. • 1 review
October 9, 2024
10/10Great food, with excellent service provided by the friendly staff. Would definitely recommend visiting.
darlene c. • 1 review
October 8, 2024
10/10From the moment we walked thru the door, service was wonderful! The food was VERY good !
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