Restaurante Origem

Restaurant · Salvador ·

Restaurante Origem

Restaurant · Salvador ·

Award-winning tasting menu highlights Bahian biomes and traditions

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Alameda das Algarobas, 74 - Pituba, Salvador - BA, 41820-500, Brazil Get directions

R$200+

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"As its name suggests, this is the restaurant where chef Fabrício Lemos and his wife, pastry chef Lisiane Arouca, began researching the biomes of his native Bahia. They now control a small empire in the city, with a casual restaurant (Orí), speakeasy (Gem), and seafood-focused venue (Omí). At award-winning Origem, Lemos has championed culinary techniques that have fallen into disuse. For instance, from the Recôncavo region — home to some of the Bahian dishes with the clearest links to African heritage — Lemos serves efó, a stew made with a native herb called cow’s tongue, mixed with dried shrimp, peanuts, and chestnuts. The 14-course tasting menu (divided in three acts: African Roots, Native Dishes, and Modern Transformations) also includes breaded shrimp in cornmeal served with bisque and roasted corn, tuna belly with lucine clam foam, octopus with vatapá, and okra. Arouca’s desserts follow the same rules: local ingredients in vibrant, creative preparations." - Rafael Tonon

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Restaurante Origem

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In Salvador, Brazil, Afro Brazilian Religion Shapes Street Food and Fine Dining | Eater

"Launched in 2016 by chef Fabrício Lemos and pastry chef Lisiane Arouca, this award-winning tasting-menu venue mines the biomes and culinary traditions of Bahia to spotlight rarely seen terreiro dishes and reinterpret them with fine-dining techniques. Offerings range from traditional plates like efó (a herb-based stew with língua de vaca, dried shrimp, and peanuts, associated with Nanã) to inventive creations such as ravioli filled with vatapá and a monochromatic, Nanã-inspired composition using purple-yam purée, Brazilian zebu beef hump, and red-wine béarnaise. The restaurant deliberately uses Candomblé foodways as a creative springboard—sometimes courting controversy, as with an early fusion snack that combined acarajé and abará—while positioning these dishes as a means to celebrate Black culinary heritage and combat cultural erasure." - Rafael Tonon

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Restaurante Origem

Risia A.

Google

Great experience!! Yummy food but it's really expensive.

Stephen K.

Google

The best food in Bahia. They have great service food and atmosphere and amazing wine pairings! A must visit for Salvador!

Henry S.

Google

This is a very nice fine dining experience with like 13 dishes of food to try. I like the main dishes the most, particularly the scallops and the sea bass. The service was also attentive but not overwhelming. They have English speaking staff too. The price for the tasting menu is very reasonable given the food and the experience. We finished dinner in 4 hours of tasting!

Colin J.

Google

Fantastic Bahian fine-dining. Be sure you come hungry, it’s a long but rewarding multi-course meal. Unusually, each dish was better than the last, and the mains were better than the appetizers (normally appetizers are more interesting and creative). I absolutely loved the goat and the meat dishes. Great job guys.

Pablo R.

Google

Great experience. Good service with delicious food. We loved everything, including the care of waitress and the approach for each dish and how they were elaborated (both veggie and regular options). It is also kids friendly as our 7 years old kid had a great experience with her dish and could try ours. The only suggestion is try to make the circuits shorter and less waiting time between that “acts”. I think we stayed 3 hours, but 2 hours would have been better. Anyway, we had a great time and will definitely come back when we are in Salvador. - some photos of our favorites.

Fifo

Google

Wonderful experience with an amazing tasting menu. It definitely deserves its spot on the list of latin americas best restaurants. Great wines as well. We really enjoyed the little treats that came together with the espresso at the end of the journey.

Jay

Google

An absolutely amazing dining experience. The thirteen course tasting menu highlighted various regions of Brazil. Each course was well-explained by the server and tasted incredible. Fresh and high-quality ingredients were represented in each course. I don’t eat beef or pork and the beef dishes were substituted with octopus. The price of 320 reales was more than reasonable for an experience of this magnitude.

Nurin

Google

This was the best meal we had in Brazil. Every dish was amazing.