Paraxut

The restaurant, located in Guimaraes Old Town, was built with old Guimaraes town wall, which has beautiful stone and natural color beauty. Inside restaurant, diners can find two contemporary paintings which are on the wall, and these paintings were one line drafted from the beginning to the end for painting image. The restaurant design does give me, probably all other customers, a strong feeling of harmonious integration of historical castle structure with contemporary art and table and seating. The restaurant indoor seating generally provides a cozy feeling with comforts, while its simple and plain outdoor seating does allow tourists and locals to enjoy meals and, especially, drinks and cafes when weather is acceptable While restaurant menu has fish, pork, steak entries, it also has other choices, such as vegetarian dishes, plus cafes, cakes, bakery and wine at reasonable price. Our dish is Grilled Sardine with smashed potatoes, and another dish is seabass fillet with turnip green and crushed potato, with house white wine [less acid, $4.5 per cup]. They are tasty and properly cooked, and price is reasonable and inexpensive, while owner and waitress do give us pleasure and comfort to enjoy the meals without bothering us, although they did make sure that we would not want to have after-meal coffee or other pastry or sweets. Contrary to one prior comment on Google Map, we had no trouble to pay our bills with credit card. While we were there, Restaurant owners were celebrating with workers for lunch and wines, day after Labor Day. Their entries were really exciting one- prawn, steak, pizza, salad, and other entries, and wines for the employees to celebrate their Labor Day.

- Ben Hsu -

We came to this restaurant for lunch and had such a pleasant experience. The staff were all very friendly, and the food was delicious and well suited to Asian tastes. Truly a lovely afternoon.

- Doreen ng -

Really enjoyed our lunch here, after walking around the palace and castle. Both had their traditional Bacalhou com Natas (cod with cream), very nice, with a lovely glass of cold Vinho Verde. Sat outside, with views of the historic site, great place to eat. Recommend getting seated about 12, when all the restaurants are basically empty, as the tour groups tend to arrive from 1pm and fill the square up!

- Jamie Palliser -

The popular spot next door was always full, so we decided to try this one. It's cosy in the square, the service is good and quick, and the food is delicious. Perhaps as a suggestion, the bright white table lamps could be replaced with more atmospheric ones.

- Familie H. -

We really wanted a feijoada dish but no one in town had it today. We stopped at Paraxut after checking other menus in the plaza. They had the closest to what we wanted. Veal steak for 2 with black beans, veges and rice. It was quite good although the veal was slightly cartilagey. Service was very good.

- GG Taruc -