Discover four good restaurants to eat in Belo Horizonte

Eager oven

Also designed by chef Henrique Gilberto, Forno da Saudade is a Neapolitan-style pizzeria that values ​​the highest quality and originality in its dishes, with ingredients produced by the restaurant itself or by close partners, from pasta to beers.

With a beautiful view of the center of Belo Horizonte, you can enjoy delicious local dishes both at the tables and on the stools of Praça do Zigue-Zague, in one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city. For starters, it’s worth trying the burrata with balsamic-roasted strawberries (R$58) or the house starters, which include olives and capers, ash butter, caponata and sardela (R$39). Both accompanied by homemade bread.

As for the pizzas, five flavors are available, ranging from R$54 to R$62: margherita, pepperoni, artisan sausage, heart of palm Bolognese, chicken with cream cheese, aubergine and a vegan option – with smoked mushrooms, chicory, pará chestnuts and dijon mustard sauce. In addition, focaccias (which they call “butchers”) are also served in four flavors: caponata, caramelized onion and gruyere, anchovies and mortadella and lemon. Each butcher costs R$24.

Where

Address: R. Patrocínio, 1 – Carlos Prates, Belo Horizonte – MG

Instagram: @fornodasaudade

Calm

Chef Caio Soter defines it as “home cooking, authorial and inventive, which stops time”. Selected for the 50 best discoveries in 2024, it is a highlight of BH gastronomy.

Some dishes suggested by the chef are Minas Gerais snails (R$69.60) – with duck gizzards with herb and garlic butter, accompanied by artisanal baguette -, sun-dried meat tartare with pickled cucumbers, baru nuts , pequi aioli and angu tiles

(R$ 72.80) and the Pork Wellington with pumpkin puree, toasted okra and pork sauce

(R$ 129.60). There is also a tasting menu which costs R$330.

For dessert, Soter recommends the canastra cheese crème brulee with citrus guava paste and house-made cheese bread, which costs R$41.60.

Where

Address: R. Rio de Janeiro, 2735 – Lourdes, Belo Horizonte – MG

Instagram: @pacatobh

Santo Antonio cuisine

Featuring delicious signature dishes by chef Juliana Duarte, Cozinha Santo Antônio is located in a beautiful corner house and is open Tuesday to Friday for lunch and Saturday and Sunday from 12.30pm to 5.30pm.

Some dishes bear in their name a tribute to important figures in history and even to books, such as “Ensaio para Frieiro”, homage to the author of the first study on the nutrition of miners, published in 1966, in which chicken legs and thighs are used of organic chicken, masked beans, criollo angu corn, crispy cabbage, okra and popcorn (R$ 69), and “Minha vida de Menina”, inspired by the book of the same name by Helena Morley, pseudonym of Alice Caldeira Brant, a girl who lived in Diamantina in the 19th century and that “on the sacred days of sacrifice” they served cod with angu, beans and pumpkin (R$ 112).

For those who want to try a bit of everything, there is also the three-part tasting menu called “mini-menu” (R$ 120), which is served in two versions with three mini-portions of menu dishes. In the first “mineirices” version, “Ensaio para Frieiro”, “Juntinho” (pork pudding, corn flour, roasted tomato and onion and lemon puree) and “Maria da Cruz” (Angus breast, corn, cassava) are served. With butter). bottle, dark cream cheese and some pequi broch).

The other alternative is the “classic” minimenu, with Bacalhau Honório Brás – a Brazilian version of the Portuguese classic: grated cod, peach palm, sweet potatoes, fried cabbage, Portuguese olives topped with free-range eggs and pil pil; duck rice, in short: duck rice per pair, croquette, crunchy black cabbage; and Boeuf Bourguignon – Angus shoulder heart cooked in wine with mushrooms, colorful sweet potatoes and baguette slices.

Where

Address: R. São Domingos do Prata, 453 – Santo Antônio, Belo Horizonte – MG

Instagram: @cozinha_santoantoni