Restaurant Review

Restaurants in Palmas 

We selected the restaurants with the best quality/price ratio.
For explanation of our classification, click here.
=Quality   =Price   =Ambiance

Alquimia (recently closed)
Dinner restaurant with large appetizer buffet (Highly Recommended). Varied à la carte menu.  Large wine assortment. Great ambiance on a small hilltop. Terrace in a lightened garden. Airconditioned and decorated interior.
Avenida LO 9, next to the Petrobras petrol station Posto Verão, Sun-Sat 18:30-24:00, Phone 32145036
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Caranguejos
Caranguejos is a seafood restaurant, dinner only. Caranguejo means crab, and that is what they are specialized in. Fresh crab (alive) from São Luis. Besides crab they serve Moquecas, Bobó, Caldeirada de peixe, various petiscos (small snacks), meat, salads (also with crab). No buffet, only à la carte. Standard wine assortment.
Terrace, half inside half outside. No airconditioning.
Avenida Teutonia Segurado, Tue-Sun 18:30-24:00, in the weekend starting at 12:00, Phone 30285296
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Dom Vergilio
Large grill and pizza restaurant with open kitchen. Grill for lunch, pizza for dinner. The lunch is a classic grill with buffet. Price is 20 reais per kilo. At night the restaurant changes into a pizzeria, with 66 types of pizza and calzones. Specialties are pizza Stogonoff and pizza Carne do Sol. They serve 6 types of sweet pizza. In the evening they serve petiscos (snacks) and 6 desserts. Standard wine assortment.
Professional ambiance. Airconditioning. No terrace.
Avenida JK (west side), Lunch Mon-Sat 11:00-14:30, Dinner Tue-Sun 18:00-24:00 Phone 32121400
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Fineza (recently changed owner, to be checked)
Small and simple lunch restaurant with buffet and grill. Buffet is small but tasty and costs 13,50 reais per kilo including grill. No wine, no desserts, but they serve sucos. Terrace is cool because of shadows. On a corner, with view on the secretarias in the center.
Avenida NS2, opposite secretarias and next to Unicom, Mon-Sat 07:00-18:00, 
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Gabriela
Buffet and grill restaurant. Cosy and beautiful ambiance under a veranda or inside with airconditioning. Menu changes every day. Feijoada on wednesdays and saturdays. For dinner they (will) serve various types of filé and petiscos (starting in July 2007). Five types of desserts, also per kilo. Price is 19 reais per kilo. Standard wine assortment. In the weekend offering playing facilities for children.
Avenida north of JK, Lunch Tue-Sun 11:30-14:30, Phone 32121255
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Master
Large lunch and dinner restaurant with buffet (lunch only) and à la carte. Complete and traditional menu: meat, fish, international wines, appetizers, desserts. Buffet is extensive and costs 18 reais per kilo (Recommended). No grill. Standard wine assortment. Canteen-like ambiance. Terrace and airconditioning. Live music on Thursdays.
Avenida Teutonia Segurado, Sun-Sat 11:00-24:00, Phone 32146749
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Nelson Churrascaria
Lunch restaurant with rodizio. Lunch only. Buffet is large and costs 18 reais per kilo, including grill (Recommended). No à la carte menu. Standard wine assortment. Canteen-like ambiance with airconditioning. No terrace.
Avenida Teutonia Segurado
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Paço do pão
Pizza restaurant with wood-fired pizza oven. Dinner only. Specialties are pizza with Bacalhau and pizza with Camarão. Also serving Calzones and sweet pizzas. Standard wine assortment. Terrace.
Avenida JK (west side), Lunch Mon-Sat 11:00-14:30, Dinner Every day 18:30-24:00 Phone 32155665
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Palazzo / Pousada dos Girassois
Hotel restaurant with open kitchen. Buffet with apetizers, salads and desserts (Recommended). A la carte. At the open kitchen you can select ingredients from a buffet, for the cook to stir fry. Standard wine assortment.
Airconditioned. No terrace.
Avenida NS 01, Sun-Sat 11:00-24:00, Phone 32161670
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Portal do Sul
Lunch restaurant with rodizio. Buffet is large with 30 salads and 14 hot dishes. Fixed price is 22 pp. 
Specialties are Javali (small pig), Carneiro (sheep), Carne do Sol from the grill and Arroz com peque. No à la carte menu. Serving fish on request. Eight desserts. Standard wine assortment. Canteen-like ambiance with airconditioning. No terrace.
Avenida Teutonia Segurado (north side), Every day 11:30-15:00, Phone 32258744
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Classification

Quality
We rank the restaurants based on various qualities of their dishes: creativity, taste, presentation, freshness, quality of ingredients and preparation. And, to a lesser extend, also to the service, decor and the ambiance.

	Quick meal
	Average
	Good
	Very good
	Excellent

 Price
The price is the average price for a main course per person. Often the menu shows dishes that will do for two or three people. If so, we take half of the price.

	Up to 10 reais
	10-20 reais
	20-30 reais
	30-40 reais
	more than 40 reais

Ambiance
Here we look at the presentation of the food, the wine list, the completeness of the menu, the décor, the ambiance and the service.

	Simple
	Standard
	Good
	Excellent
	High class