Great laid back easy portuguese charm, personal efficient service with food done as ordered fast and still sizzling on the plate. Best portuguese steak eggs and delicious chips!!!
I will not drive past Dias tavern ever when I come to Capetown💪🏻😎
Dias never manages to disappoint us. Always the best food, greatest vibe and outstanding staff. Thank you
Best fish ever ! I have eaten here several times and I’ve never been disappointed. High quality ingredients and careful preparation means you are always served a tasty high quality dish. Highly recommended. I’m a big fan of no frills no fuss dining when the food is this good.
I have never been let down by the standard of service and the quality of food dished up at Dias Tavern. We’d been to see David Kramer’s Langarm at The Fugard – do yourselves a favour - and were ready to nosh on good food and drink (sparingly cos we wuz driving) appreciatively over reviews of the show and catch-up with friends.
Doesn’t matter what you order, everything’s well prepared, is served quickly – thank you, Charles – and delivers on what’s advertised. My half a chicken was a huge portion that saw the inside of a doogie bag to come home for lunch today.
An all-time favourite haunt of mine.
We had an amazing lunch - most delicious tiger prawns, excellent veggies, peri peri chicken - all just perfectly cooked, excellent quality and fantastic service! Always consistent experience and highly recommend Diaz Tavern
Just love the simplicity and unpretentious nature of this establishment. Superb chicken and great vibe. Thank you and well done. Ordered their chicken and enjoyed with a bottle of Casal Garcia wine. Lovely.
The best, most authentic Portuguese food in Cape Town. I love the down to earth vibe, friendly staff and amazing food. Some of our favorites are the peri peri chicken, chicken livers, giblets and the prego steak roll. The katembas were a lot of fun.
Authentic Portuguese “hole in the wall”, it’s a piece of portugal in the center of Cape Town. Food is delicious and portion size just right. The meals the day is always exciting and you get way more than what you pay for.
Wonderful vibe, feisty and friendly service and food that is authentically Portuguese in a way that Nandi’s or Adega will never be able to get quite right. Calamari, Chicken Livers and Squid tentacles made for a great start before the Peri Peri (not so) Baby Chicken arrived. Paired with chilled Vino Verde, I swear that at that time and place, this was the best food in the world!
After being invited here by my boyfriend's parents who are Portuguese, I was really excited. Everything lived up to my expectations, it's rustic and literally gives a feeling of being in a Portuguese pub. I had a Portuguese prego steak and it was so flavorful and moist and the live music by Ernesto was amazing! I'm planning to go back for my boyfriend's birthday in January, he just doesn't know it yet!
Always A Pleasure To Perform And Entertain Dias Tavern Patrons!
Awesome Food And Service!
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Great selection of Portuguese food. Trinchado sauce is home made and the steaks are served to perfection. Try the calamari tubes (soft and tender) and tentacles (very juicy) for a starter or the Peri Peri Chicken Livers (not too hot). Looking forward to my next visit. Service is very good and friendly...most of the staff has been working there for years. Good vibe for an informal business lunch.
Proper authentic Portuguese experience. The team are so lovely that you won’t want to leave. The food is absolutely incredible. Full of flavour and reasonably priced. Cannot wait to come back!! 🙌
Dias always has such incredible food, staff, and an amazing atmosphere. The restaurant was quite quiet when I went last night, but the atmosphere was still so warm, comforting, and inviting. Dias Tavern never disappoints! Their Trinchado is always absolutely incredibly delicious.
Very nice food and great atmosphere.
I went there for dinner on a busy Friday evening. The place was packed but our waitress still managed to get my party of six a table.
We ordered pretty much everything on the menu 🤣 (see picture) and I gotta say, everything tasted great. There was not one thing we didn't like and the portions were fair. Stand outs for me were their juicy prawns and crispy calamari. Their chicken was nice too but some pieces were tough, just like their steak cubes.
There was live performance that night and the whole place had a great vibe. After a while, they moved some tables away to open up the front of the restaurant into a dance floor.
a Very relaxed good vibe atmosphere! The service was par excellent and the food was extremely tasty and well presented. This is the ideal restaurant to celebrate a birthday with friends and or just enjoying a night out with your friends.
It was a nice experience, the Cheesecake was a bit disappointing though since I could definitely taste it was defrosted but the food made up for it all. Steak was delicious and would recommend the tentacles for a starter. It was quiet the afternoon but this place can get extremely busy and reservations are recommended for popular times.
Never seen this place before, friend told me about it. Had some steak and it was amazing. Atmosphere is great too, will be going back in the near future
Always a fabulous evening, great food, good live band for atmosphere and authentic in everyway. Service was extremely poor as though understaffed, but once orders were taken, the food came out hot and delicous. Seemed a new way to serve very small sardines but was excellent, and the peri peri chick was as close to perfect , juicy , spicy ,crispy char grill- delicous.
Amazing considering the last time I had been back was 20 odd years ago. Fantastic in every detail. Brilliant menu and side specials. The wine is very well priced. The food as good if not better than I remember it and the toilets... yes the toilets were like your own at home. Clean and well maintained. Service fantastic. Well done Dias you guys were packed and never dropped the customer needs.
Christopher-Lee Eckard
+4
A definite local gem in the heart of the city! So much old-world charm is packed into the restaurant that unfolds as the evening progresses. Unexpectedly, our evening with friends and family at Dias turned out as one of our favourite nights out while in Cape Town. The food, the vibe, the setting and the location make it a must visit when you're in town.
Tip: Make a booking as it does get busy.
Went there with several people , great experience, great live music, and service was good. Food was great, just the rice needed something, and the streak was overdone and chewy.
But the prawns, calarami, fish and chicken were great tasting.
Definitely worth it .
Atmosphere was the highlight of the night with everyone joining in and dancing near the live band
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