A quick and unpretentious lunch to go back to work. A bid to hunger. That nothing! You can alleviate the tension of routine with good food. A lunch on the whim can save the day.
If you are looking for a cost-effective meal at lunchtime, Belo Horizonte offers options that go beyond trivial. More and more restaurants in the capital of Minas Gerais are investing in executive menus signed by nationally awarded and recognized chefs. These are houses that combine technique, fresh ingredients and creativity in accessible dishes during the week.
Check out the following suggestions for lunch well in BH, with a lot of quality and inviting prices
- Cabernet Butiquim
The Cabernet Butiquim executive menu has been successful among those who do not give up a good meal between one meeting and another. Under the command of Janaína Barrozo, the restaurant usually changes the menu weekly and there are still fixed dishes of the day, such as the roll of tilapia with zucchini and lemon risotto on Tuesday and Parmegiana on Thursdays. The meal starts with a salad, three main options and a dessert for $ 49 to $ 77, depending on the protein. It is served from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm from Tuesday to Friday. Recently, among the suggestions was Bucatini with Blue Cheese sauce, fillet cubes, broccoli with leeks and toasted tomatoes.
Cabernet Butiquim : Levindo Lopes Street, 22, employees, Belo Horizonte – MG / Tel.: (31) 98447 4102 / Operation: Tuesday to Saturday, from 11:30 am to 11:30 pm; and Sunday from 11:30 am to 4 pm.
- Caravel
Located in Diamond Mall, the Portuguese caravela Cristóvão Laruça serves with executive menu from Monday to Friday, except for holidays. The menu features classic “land” dishes like the steak to coffee with rustic potatoes, famous Lisboeta recipe. Among the main ones, the clientele can also choose between old cod clothing, cod to Brás and loin pantry with potato musseline and gossip sauce. At the starters, salad of the day, cod tiborna or bacon sautéed mushrooms. For another R $ 12, it is still possible to order two codfish dumplings. Dessert varies each week and coffee is included in the price of $ 84.
Caravel: Av. Olegário Maciel, 1600, Diamondmall, 3rd Floor, Santo Agostinho – Belo Horizonte – MG / Tel.: (31) 99585 5804 / Operation: Monday to Saturday, from 12h to 15h and from 19h to 23h; and Sunday, from 12h to 15h to 19h to 22h.
- SANTO ANTONIO KITCHEN
The menu varies according to two criteria, explains chef Juliana Duarte: “First, it’s the ingredients that are available with partner family farmers and the other is a motivation, which can be the weather or a trip.” Ju, as it is called by friends, is also inspired by literature when creating the menus. Recently, he inspired the chronicles of the book of Constância Escobar. The entrance, main course and a dessert spoon costs $ 60 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and $ 65 (Thursdays and Fridays). Food is prepared with organic products and always have a miner.
Recently, among the main clients could choose between Rosbife, Cerrado Mineiro and Ratatouille cheese paddad or between drips and fried chicken, okra and sauteed pumpkin, criolo corn angu, green corn and cauliflower watered with olive oil and fried garlic.
SANTO ANTONIO KITCHEN : Rua São Domingos do Prata, 453, Santo Antônio – Belo Horizonte – MG / Operation: Tuesday to Friday, from 12h to 15h; Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 12:30 to 17h; Thursdays and Fridays from 19h to 23h.
- D’Artagnan
The executive menu is baptized as Prix Fixe and is offered by the restaurant from Wednesday to Friday at lunchtime, except on holidays. At the entrances, there are usually salad, sea and meat options. Already among the main, pasta, fish and meat. Until March, the menu was changed weekly.
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However, since April, the executive has been lasting a month – at the request of customers. “I choose the dishes that have a weekly face,” explains Marise. For example, at the moment, the entrance has a solmon croque monsieur with half -cured cheese; Green leaf salad, goat cheese, orange, caramelized walnuts and curry vinaigrette; Or Tartare Alla Siciliana, Angus fillet cut on the knife, pistachio, pecorino cream and arugula. The three main options are Penne Alla Matriciana; Grilled gold to the bahian with acaçá and spicy roasted chayote; and lizard stuffed with onions, baby potatoes and chef rice. To close, Peach Melba, peach in syrup, strawberry coulis, whipped cream, rolled almonds and vanilla ice cream; or MIL-GUABADA FROMS WITH CURRENT SYNE. The price is $ 125 per person.
D’Artagnan : Rua Tomás Gonzaga, 593, Lourdes – Belo Horizonte – MG / Tel.: (31) 3295 7878 / Operation: Tuesday, from 19h to 0h; Wednesday and Thursday, from 12h to 16h and from 19h to 0h; Friday and Saturday, from 12h to 0h; and Sunday from 12h to 17h.
- El Mai
The El Mai executive in Lourdes is an option for those who want to eat an executive at night or on weekends. The house has menu with entrance, main course and dessert Saturday and Sunday during lunch and every day at night. Prices are $ 89 and $ 109, respectively. Customers still have the option of choosing a hot dish menu that comes out of chef Thulio Enes’s kitchen, or Japanese, signed by Sushiman John Oliveira.
Currently, for the first team, the menu had mini entry nachos, ancho to Poivre or Black Rice Cameroon among the main and intense dessert chocolate brownie. For those who opt for the eastern, the meal starts with a salmon kushiyaki, follows a combination of 17 pieces and ends with an oriental sundae.
El Mai: Rua Professor Antônio Aleixo, 592, Lourdes – Belo Horizonte – MG / Operation: Monday to Thursday, from 17h30 to 0h; Friday, from 17h30 to 0h30; Saturday; from 12h to 0h30; and Sunday, from 12h to 0h.
- Chubby cat
The newest darling of the city, Gata Gorda is the restaurant with Spanish accent of chef Bruna Martins. Located in Savassi’s buzz, the house has executive menu for $ 75, with some small variations depending on the chosen protein. For example, the chopped Mignon with mushrooms, baroa cream and crispy farofa receives the signs of + $ 10. “I always try to have a red meat, a white and a vegetarian among the main ones,” says Bruna. The menu changes every week. Among the options that have already passed there are in the category of entrances, Pan, Burrata Cream and Tuna Crudo. In the main, fox, carrot cream with orange and cauliflower in the coal oven; Brase Termite and Rissoni creamy to spring; or tomato risotto with breaded eggplant. To sweeten, white chocolate mousse with yogurt and caramelized sweet popcorn.
Chubby cat : Rua Levindo Lopes, 98, Savassi – Belo Horizonte – MG / Tel.: (31) 99989 7122 / Operation: Tuesday to Thursday, from 12h to 16h and from 18h to 0h; Friday and Saturday, from 12h to 0h; Sunday from 12h to 17h.
- Odoyá
Bringing a beach air to the capital of Minas Gerais, chef Yves Saliba Odoyá offers executive menu from Tuesday to Friday from 12h to 15h30, for $ 78. There are two and one dessert entrance options. “The executive is a way for cooks to be able to participate. Creation has their finger, which bring family recipes. In fact, that’s what we want to do and eat. And often it serves to validate some tests we are doing for the fixed menu,” explains the chef.
The menu varies and this week has, for example, toast with tomato salad, balsamic reduction, olive oil and entrance burrata cream. As main, the customer can choose between shrimp moqueca, lemon rice and coconut farofa; or Brisket rice with bacon, pumpkin cream, crispy farofinha and broccoli. Dessert, lemon grass cake, sponge cake stuffed with lemon grass cream.
Odoyá: Pernambuco Street, 797, Savassi – Belo Horizonte – MG / Tel.: (31) 98493 7436 / Operation: Tuesday to Sunday, from 12h to 17h.
- Olivia
Located in Vila da Serra, Olivia, chef Jorge Ferreira, has a starter, main course and dessert for R $ 89.90. Entries change every week, as well as the chef’s suggestion, which usually cost $ 10 more. Mushroom toast with padano money; Caprese salad; or croqueta de duck to open the meal. In the main ones, Boeuf Bourguignon appears as a suggestion, in addition to four other options: Cool with Sauté potato and mustard and honey sauce; Potato scale fish and vegetables on the ember; Filet in Poivre Sauce Vert and Gorgonzola Risotto; and rigatone to fonduta cream and mushrooms. Dessert, passion fruit mousse.
Olivia: Al. Oscar Niemeyer, 1033, store 18, Vila da Serra, Nova Lima – Belo Horizonte – MG / Tel.: (31) 99556 0952 / Operation: Monday, from 12h to 16h30; Tuesday and Wednesday, from 11:30 to 14:30 and from 18h to 23h;
Thursday, from 11:30 am to 11:30 pm; Friday, from 12h to 15h30 and from 18h to 23h30; Saturday, from 12h to 16h30 and from 18h to 23h30; and Sunday from 12h to 16h30.
- Omilia
Chef Gabriel Trillo serves the executive menu from Tuesday to Friday from 11h30 to 15h30 with entrance, main course and dessert for $ 79.90. There are always two entry options, five main and two dessert, which can also be replaced by an express coffee. The suggestions vary weekly. Often there are classics of miners like pork loin with tutu, ribs with canjiquinha risotto.
Omilia: Al. Do Morro, 72, Vila da Serra, Nova Lima – Belo Horizonte – MG / Tel.: (31) 99724 2038 / Operation: Tuesday to Saturday, from 12h to 0h; and Sunday from 12h to 18h.
- Quiet
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Inspired Formule (term to describe a fixed menu normally with cover, lead, main and dessert for a fixed price) so common in France, chef Caio Soter has prepared a four -time executive menu that is served Wednesday and Thursday from 12h to 15h and Friday from 12h to 16h. For R $ 110, the customer is entitled to the covert corn bread and curd with salt flower and lemon.
Served on a board, the entrances are three: kale tile, mango tartare with black pepper, finger and curd; Cheese bread tile, tomato tartare, guava and goat cheese; and corn bread, dark curd cream, jabuticaba syrup and jiló chips. There are six main dishes options, among them the famous this is not a risotto, green corn with saffron of the earth, cauliflower in turmeric and fermented cauliflower foam. To close, kid’s foot cake made with rapadura cake, peanut jam and dulce de leche.
PACATO: Rio de Janeiro Street, 2735, Lourdes – Belo Horizonte – MG / Operation: Wednesday to Friday, from 12h to 15h; Wednesday to Saturday, from 19h to 23h; and Sunday from 12h to 16h.
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