Bacalhau Grill - Portuguese Restaurant & Market
Address | 1555 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA, United States | ||||||||||||||
Phone | +1 408-259-6101 | ||||||||||||||
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Categories | Portuguese Restaurant, Brazilian Restaurant | ||||||||||||||
Rating | 4.4 14 reviews | ||||||||||||||
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Bacalhau Grill - Portuguese Restaurant & Market reviews
14Tons of Brazilian and Portuguese snacks, candies, fish, liquors and wine, you can even find 30 year old port as well as chicory coffee and Guarana Antarctica
The grilled Octopus was delightful and the Gomes da Sá was yumma! Can't wait to try the empanadas
We loved being there! It is a Brazilian and Portuguese place and staff is very friendly! Everyone should try it! Amazing and savory food!
I made an order at 3 pm and 5 pm they cancelled my order without let me know the reason. I called to the restaurant and they said that nothing to do, order cancelled. DON’T BUY IN THIS RESTAURANT, THEY DON’T MIND TO THE CUSTOMERS! LIXO, SEM COMPROMISSO, SEM PROFISSIONALISMO.
I’ve been to this place 4 times already. The food is delicious and the staff is super friendly. It feels like a part of Brazil inside of San Jose. I super recommend Bacalhau Grill!
Today I walked in to pick up a few holiday gifts for my Grandma, who is from the Azors (St. George). As soon as I walked in, I was welcomed with a friendly greeting from the employee there: Joel. Joel was extremely friendly, helpful, and attentive. I asked him about products specifically from the Azors, and for drink recommendations, and he was extremely accommodating.
Love the team here; keep up the good work! Obrigado Joel
I had picanha with Yucca root And bought lots of stuff from the market they have.
Great place to watch soccer games
I started coming to this Portuguese bakery and market roughly 2 years ago and I have been absolutely amazed by all the stuff they have that I used to eat when I was a kid. The people are really nice and the food is outstanding.
Good Brazilian and Portuguese food. I most recently ordered the feijoada, a black bean stew with assorted pork, which was very tasty. I also enjoyed garlicky salad that accompanied it. The previous time I ate here, I had the Bacalhau à Brás, which is shredded salted cod and scrambled eggs. It enjoyed the texture of the dish, and it mixes well with the rice. It’s on the pricier side for lunch, but they make up for it with good portion sizes.
The restaurant itself has a pretty relaxed atmosphere, and it’s connected to a market where you can buy a variety of Brazilian and Portuguese food products to take home. My favorites include the Portuguese bread, egg tarts, linguica, and chouriço.
It is a little gem in San Jose for Portuguese market. I have come to this market many times including dining in a small cafe inside with many Portuguese dishes. It is friendly and down to earth environment.
We made the trip down south expecting a Portuguese restaurant, and found a Brazilian eatery instead. They have an ample parking area, and seating both indoor and outdoor.
Since neither of us read/speak Portuguese, the employee was very nice and showed us the prepared foods they had. They had about five dishes (Brazilian beans with pork sausage, octopus and potatoes, pork stew, shrimp and potatoes, stewed beef) and some fried foods displayed in front. We chose 'shrimp and potatoes' and 'beef', and they both came with rice and salad. She recommended the chicken filled fried item and we tried that with some fried cod croquettas. They also have a variety of canned and bottled drinks, including alcohol. There didn't seem to be any complimentary water, so you do have to buy bottled water if you want some. We got some fresh squeezed oj. They only had one large size, so we shared one.
You pay, grab your drinks and pre-fried foods, pick a table, sit down and they bring you the wet foods with the rice and salad. We think they reheat it for you because it took awhile before we got our food, which worked out well because we were done with our appetizers of fried food by the time the plates arrived. The indoor dining area was clean and neat, except for the hand sanitizer pump bottles (a lot of eateries are doing this due to covid but they r usually gross with dripping or clogged pumps) and baskets of assorted sauce packets in a basket (Mayo, mustard, Cholula packets were stuck together and didn't seem too clean) on tabletops.
If you have ever been to Brazil, the pre-prepared food was pretty authentic flavorwise. The fried foods weren't greasy, and the deep fried chicken salad was well done. The fried cod had lots of bones that you have to spit out. The beef had a gamey smell and slightly sour, the shrimp was plentiful but not deveined which I dislike. The rice was a tad hard and cold, the salad greens and tomatoes were very fresh. We kept asking if there was anything else because we thought there might be something other than preprepared foods but were told they only had the above. But as we left, the table near us got fresh fried fries (lol tongue twister) so we guess there may be some things you can get freshly made after all.
We would say this is more of a Brazilian eats place, not a Portuguese restaurant. While they do sell both Portuguese style food items (which they do in Brazil) and Brazilian dishes prepared in the market, it is totally Brazilian in atmosphere, with Brazilian music, a large Brazilian flag. If you have been to both countries, you will feel like you are in Brazil, not in Portugal.
While they do have lots of seating, it's closer in feel to a large taqueria in a Mexican market, than a restaurant, especially since they do not make/cook foods to order like a restaurant would do.
After eating, we checked out the market and they have a lot of South American items, including lots of Brazilian foodstuffs like passion fruit everything. We got a large bag of a favorite Argentinian sweet treat (yellow bag in pic) for $22.10 (ten cents for a plastic bag). We tried to take pics to show the variety of items they carry, not just salted cod, they have a large selection of alcohols as well as chocolates, frozen foods like yuca, canned fish, sauces, snacks like lupini.
Authentic Brazilian food and market in San Jose! I ordered many dishes to try! Creama de Bacalhau, Beef stew, Coxinha di Frango. They were all delicious and I plan to go back some week end for Feijoadoa!
I came here to get some Brazilian liquor and snacks. The snack selection is basic but fine. Kinda pricey and not so clean. The food for sale is not so fresh, at least it did not appear to be. The restaurant part is very basic with uninviting. Not sure if I would order food here but I will come back for the snacks.