If you know Kensington Market, then you know Amadeu's Restaurant is a fixture on Augusta Avenue. That’s because the Portuguese family style restaurant has been going strong since 1989, when Rui Goncalves’ parents first opened its doors to the neighbourhood.
“My parents had worked in the restaurant industry back home and when they immigrated, they took all sorts of jobs,” he recalls. His dad, whose name was Amadeu, did catering for weddings on weekends and really wanted a place of his own. First he opened a restaurant up the street with his brother, but eventually he switched locations when friends of his who owned the space were ready to retire.
The new location was renovated to feature a more casual neighbourhood bar on one side and a family-friendly fine dining space on the other, making it a welcoming spot for a variety of hungry customers.
Chees & prescuito platter
Chef's appetizer
seared shrimp
steamed clams/mussels with:
white wine, olive oil and garlic sauce, or
onions, olive oil and tomato sauce
fried calamari
chicken wings
chourico
greek salad
caesar salad
garden salad
cream of seafood
green collard soup
soup of the day
fish fillet with fries
chicken breast with fries
steak with fries
pork with fries
homemade burger with fries
grilled chicken breast
with homemade tomato sauce, served on penne
mussels in alfredo sauce
served with fetticcinni pasta
shrimp a la rose
served with spaghetti
vegetarian lasagna
lasagna
fresh catch of the day
fish fillets
grilled sardines
grilled calamari
grilled halibut
grilled chicken breast
bitoque
pork altentejana style
steak portuguese style
fresh catch of the day
grilled or steamed
seared tuna steak
marinated in pepper, garlic & white wine
grilled or steamed grouper
served with potatoes and vegetables
fish fillets
lightly breaded sole, served with rice and salad
grilled sardines
served with potatoes and pimento salad
codfish "a braz"
sauteed silver of cod fish with onions, julienne potatoes, and egg
grilled codfish
served with potatoes and vegetables
fish platter for two
squid, halibut, salmon, shrimp, crab au gratin served with potatoes and vegetables
steak portuguese style
served in a clay casserole dish with home fries
steak amadeus style
grilled steak with sauteed mushrooms, and a tiger shrimp, served with vegetables & home fries
pork alentejana style
seared cubes of pork and potatoes with clams
surf & turf
filet mignon served with lobster tail
paella spanish style
for two
seafood rice for two
lobster, crab, shrimp, mussels and clam risotto
grilled tiger shrimp
sauteed in a red pimento sauce served with rice and seasonal vegetables
seafood special
includes crab au gratin, two giant shrimp, one king crab leg & a lobster tail
amadeus revolution
lobster, crab, shrimp, crab au gratin, mussels, clams, fried calamari, prepared in our succulent homemade sauce
chef's choice appetizer
fried calamari
seared shrimp
steamed clams or mussels with
white win, olive oil & garlic sauce
onions, olive oil & tomato sauce
crab au gratin with salad
greek salad
caesar salad
chicken caesar salad
garden salad
cream of seafood
green collard soup
soup of the day
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Best spot in the market. If you're priority is the best spot for a drink and an appetizer in the market then this is the spot. The patio is hopping from 11 A.M. Lots of locals and regulars keep this place lively. There is a more traditional restaurant immediately next door if you want a proper meal - yes, you can order that here too but this is more of a drink and apps kind of spot. If its a sunny day and you're out strolling the market make sure you pick this as the place to end up at to talk about your day and have the best view of the heavy pedestrian traffic and the jugglers with flaming hoola hoops and bowling pins in the eclectically populated park immediately next door. This isn't just the best place to go in the market it IS the market. See you there!
The taster dish was pretty bad, it had some mussels chicken wings and something else I forget. Not good at all! I was there during the summer, nice patio and people (a lot of locals). A nice place to go for drinks on the patio.
Been there quite a few times already. Love the place. Love the people. Love the Aguardente ps: Hey, EB I think you submitted your review to the wrong restaurant. This is a portuguese restaurant. None of those items are on the menu.
We were treating with a warm welcome right from the start....the environment was really nicely designed as they changed the decor & appearance of the dinning room. Our food didnt take long at all and as for the tenderness of the steak, melted in my mouth.. it was so delicious and well seasoned & full of taste! Would definately go there again....
The food was amazing and also they played live music, which was nice but a little too loud. Overall a great place to dine.
It was quite disappointing. The soup was warm to cold. The schnitzel was quite bland (almost flavourless) and not thin enough as it should be. The Zurcher was okay but nothing more. We asked one waiter for some water after our dinner and he never came back with it. Another waiter who took our dessert order did not know much information about the desserts. Overall not worth the high price we paid for it.
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