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Reviews - Visconde da Luz

R. Visc. Luz 25, 2750-285, Cascais
PortugueseAverage price €30
9.5
(446 reviews)

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9.5
of 10

Excellent
446 reviews
Ambience
9.2
Food
9.5
Service
9.6
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  • Don G.1 review

    November 3, 2024

    10/10

    What a wonderful place! Great food, a lovely park side ambience, and great service by a jovial, efficient staff. Recently enjoyed my birthday dinner there and then decided to return for my last dinner in Cascais.

  • NetJets (.2 reviews

    October 28, 2024

    10/10

    Our 16 people party received a fantastic welcome and attention from the waiters. Fresh fish prepared for most of us, and some had meat. Amazing experience downtown Cascais, which I recommend to take family, friends or for a business meal.

  • Nic R.1 review

    September 28, 2024

    10/10

    Beautiful old world charm! Staff were a delight (older in the seen it all done it all - can make your evening seamless). Food was stunning, we gorged on gooie warm cheese, perfectly cooked chateaubriand and the freshest delicate hand made skinny chips. Wine menu is impressive and reasonably priced. I am gluten free and the ‘special toast for you’ was some of the best I ever eaten. The perfect last meal in the culinary delight that is Cascais.

  • Anna C.1 review

    September 19, 2024

    10/10

    The food was excellent - the best I had in Lisbon. The waiter was very knowledgeable and gave us great service.

  • Aamer M.2 reviews

    August 17, 2024

    8.5/10

    Great food, excellent service, really nice waiting staff. Prices were a bit too high compared to other places we have dined in. I would gladly go back, though, simply because of the wait staff - just the nicest, friendliest people.

  • Lesley P.1 review

    August 16, 2024

    3/10

    The food was nice but pricey but was disappointed that a small plate of ham was put on the table with the bread and olives and was charged for ham 15,euro plus cover charge 6.60 euros they didn't make us aware of this charged .

  • Mark M.1 review

    July 28, 2024

    10/10

    This was the best restaurant we ate at during our two-week trip to Ireland and Portugal. The food was amazing. The grilled squid and shrimp was fresh and had a nice char on it. The white wine, recommended by the waiter, was light and crisp, just the way I like it. And the service was very attentive without being intrusive. It was a meal I won't soon forget!

  • Jane F.11 reviews

    July 31, 2024

    9.5/10

    Great service and good but very pricey.

  • Abraham H.1 review

    July 24, 2024

    9/10

    This place was recommended. It was an excellent recommendation indeed. The food was superb!

  • Sarah M.1 review

    July 27, 2024

    10/10

    The team at Visconde da Luz were welcoming, friendly and our meal was delicious. We thoroughly recommend this established restaurant in Cascais.

  • Lauren L.1 review

    July 15, 2024

    9.5/10

    This place was recommended to us by my brother and his wife as they had previously visited. It's an unassuming spot with a casual vibe and excellent food. Everything we tried was delicious - shrimp in garlic oil, octopus, cod and a fish stew. Highly recommend checking this place out if you're in the area.

  • Thane T.9 reviews

    July 20, 2024

    10/10

    This is our go-to restaurant in Cascais. They never fail to provide excellent food, service, and value for money. I can’t recommend it more highly.

  • Sean G.5 reviews

    July 7, 2024

    9/10

    Simple food cooked and presented very well. Very engaging and friendly staff. It was quite early and not full so lacked some ambiance but everything else was spot on!

  • Ricardo A.9 reviews

    June 14, 2024

    10/10

    Brilliant

  • Rita B.11 reviews

    May 9, 2024

    10/10

    We’ve just had the most brilliant time at this restaurant. All of the staff made us feel most welcome and valued. The Couvert was delicious. All mains were great Everyone enjoyed them thoroughly The wine was chosen with the dishes in mind and we took help from the staff Very knowledgeable We would definitely go back

  • Laurence H.2 reviews

    April 24, 2024

    10/10

    premium food, excellent and very friendly service

  • Marek D.44 reviews

    March 1, 2024

    10/10

    Excellent place!

  • Thane T.9 reviews

    September 28, 2023

    10/10

    Once again, we had an excellent meal and service at Visconde da Luz. We often bring visitors there, and to a person they are delighted by both the quality of the food, and the outstanding hospitality that the staff consistently brings to its guests. Their cataplana is magnificent, truly world class. I guarantee that you’ll want to return after having dined there once.

  • Mark O.116 reviews

    August 31, 2023

    10/10
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    We had a fantastic lunch yesterday! First time after years of saying we were going to try it. Amêijoas and robalo were perfectly prepared as you would expect. Service by Marco was also perfect. Unexpected was the dessert wine list with many old bottles of vintage and colheita ports.

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    Eduardo R.1 review

    July 9, 2023

    9.5/10

    Excellent food, outstanding attention. Friendly and professional staff. We always come back to this traditional restaurant in Cascais centre

  • Maya K.1 review

    July 1, 2023

    10/10
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    This restaurant was highly recommended by good friends whose taste we trust. We visited Cascais, and made straight for the restaurant specifically for the sea bass baked in sea salt. It was not only the best baked fish I have ever had (and that is saying a lot), the fish was fluffy and moist, but the service and ambiance were amazing. Classically Portuguese!

  • Francisco L.12 reviews

    June 30, 2023

    10/10

    One of the best restaurants on the Cascais-Estoril coast. Portuguese cuisine d elitoral.. Good fish and shellfish, good meat, rice dishes... Excellent cuisine and attention to table service. Adequate price, variable as requested of course. Nice place with a nice terrace inside

  • Wil Q.2 reviews

    June 5, 2023

    10/10

    Excellent service and great food! Will definitely be coming back!

  • Jade C.1 review

    April 23, 2023

    10/10

    Fantastic restaurant- food was amazing! Staff very friendly, and food tasted just like home from home. I would highly recommend and would definitely return

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    Susan K.89 reviews

    February 19, 2023

    10/10

    This space envelopes you in a 'Tavern on the Green' manner, as you watch the people in the Parque from under timbered ceilings and dark paneling. The wide variety of shellfish and seafood are their specialty yet the partridge should tempt you, too, in its velvety brown gravy and roasted veggies. Sea bream in a dlat crust was served table side with perfect veggies. Everything about this meal, this place, the servers is 5 star.

  • Luis B.2 reviews

    November 6, 2022

    10/10

    Excellent food and service, it worth every penny

  • Gill S.1 review

    October 22, 2022

    9.5/10

    One of our favourites and never disappoints. Don’t expect anything fancy, but high quality food (we always choose a fish dish), perfectly cooked always and exemplary service.

  • Juliet M.3 reviews

    September 16, 2022

    10/10

    Very warm welcome on arrival and lovely waiters throughout our meal. We all enjoyed our meals and would especially recommend the spider crab starter, sea bass Portuguese style and fillet steak. We chose the house red & white wine and both were fine.

  • Thane T.9 reviews

    August 3, 2022

    10/10

    Cascais is something of a tourist town, especially in the summer. But if you want a sample of the brilliance of the local cuisine, you need go no farther than Visconde da Luz. I'm an immigrant, a local for a year and a half, and this is one of two places I bring visitors to impress them with the idyllic nature of my adoptive home. The service is outstanding, the food is delectable, the ambiance is agreeable, and the restaurant consistently delivers a superlative experience without being fussy. This is not a place that's going to attract trend-setters or Michelin-star groupies... and that's just fine. It's honest food, prepared with skill and care and love. If Anthony Bourdain were still alive, I would take him here, and I'm confident he would love it as much as I do.

  • Karim e.9 reviews

    July 14, 2022

    10/10

    Very nice restaurant away from the tourists and where locals go that want to have an excellent dinner ! Super good service ! Very tasty home cooking!

  • Ruth D.3 reviews

    July 11, 2022

    5.5/10

    Disappointed- was expecting better. Waiting 35 mins on a fairly empty restaurant is not an auspicious start. Never had a drier bacalhau in Portugal. Many other better places in Cascáis so won’t be back

  • Pedro r.21 reviews

    June 26, 2022

    9/10

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  • Kurt B.10 reviews

    April 23, 2022

    10/10

    Delicious clams, followed by fabulous filet mignon. Compact but impressive wine list.

  • Thane T.9 reviews

    April 3, 2022

    10/10

    I love this place. They make you feel at home and cared for, they serve consistently excellent food, and they provide high quality at a fair price. It's not fancy, but it doesn't have to be. They do what they do exquisitely, and we always leave happy. It's also our go-to destination for bringing out-of-town dinner guests, and they are all envious that we have such a gem right here in the neighbourhood.

  • ROBERT H.17 reviews

    March 18, 2022

    10/10

    Excellent food and great service while sitting at a window table overlooking a park in Cascais Portugal. It really doesn’t get any better than this.

  • Thane T.9 reviews

    February 5, 2022

    10/10

    While we were disapponted that they were out of the cataplana de mariscos, we all had exceptional entrees. The grouper, done in the Portuguese style, was once again as good an expression of that dish as I have had anywhere. My wife had the dourada, prepared a la Portugues, and it, too, was outstanding. If the fish were any fresher, we would have had to slap them. We often bring our American guests here to get a taste of real Portuguese seafood, and they -- and we -- are never disappointed. We are lucky to have such a great restaurant so near to us, and I recommend it without hesitation. Incidentally, they also nailed the crust on the queijada de Sintra, which many restaurants fail to do. Finally, their staff is attentive, frendly, and knowledgeable.

  • Daria S.4 reviews

    December 23, 2021

    10/10

    Super! Favourite place in Cascais

  • ROBERT H.17 reviews

    November 28, 2021

    9.5/10

    The service was excellent we shared a Turbot that was perfectly prepared and presented. Paired with a great Vino Verde, all in all it was a great experience.

  • Thane T.9 reviews

    November 4, 2021

    10/10
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    Maybe the best grouper I've had in my life. Outstanding service, terrific food, a totally excellent experience from top to bottom. The staff were friendly and flexible, it was delight to eat there. I heartily recommend them to both locals (we are recent transplants from Los Angeles) and visitors (our dining companions were from Florida). I sampled many of the other dishes at the table, and it was nearly impossible to pick a favourite. The vegetable accompaniments (haricots verts, carrots, potatoes) were perfectly simple, and simply perfect. And they nailed the crust on the queijada de Sintra, which is no mean feat. My photo doesn't -- can't -- do the food justice. By all means, go there and try it for yourself. You can thank me later.

  • Gary D.16 reviews

    October 9, 2021

    10/10

    Cannot fault this restaurant. Excellent evening.

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