Adega
Portuguese restaurant · Little Portugal South ·
Michelin-starred Portuguese fine dining with rotating bacalhau
Michelin-starred Portuguese fine dining with rotating bacalhau
"Adega is Portuguese for “wine cellar,” and following suit, this dining room stocks over 200 vintages that are rarely seen on these Western shores. It's the ethos here, where Chef David Costa and Pastry Chef Jessica Carreira create an appetizing menu with a perfect blend of pristine local produce and top-notch, imported ingredients.Seafood is a focus, and diners shouldn't miss the likes of a dressed-up take on Portugal's culinary backbone—bacalhau. In this rendition, it is moist and flavorful, and arranged over crisp potatoes. Succulent carabineros are marinated in lemongrass and seaweed, then topped with caviar.Chef Carreira’s desserts, like flan, layered with caramelized sugar and gilded with a quenelle of vanilla ice cream, are equally notable." - Michelin Inspector
"Adega is a modern, seven-course Portuguese restaurant with a pre-fixe menu. Delights such as pumpkin rice with a pumpkin seed lattice, pera mille feuille, and carangueijo (crab salad) with passion fruit foam served in the crab’s shell. An extensive list of more than 500 Portuguese wines nods to the restaurant’s Portuguese namesake (Adega means “cellar” in Portuguese) and the family’s Iberian heritage. The beauty on the plate is matched by the original blue and white tile works on the wall, a nod to the traditional craftwork found all over the Iberian Peninsula." - Christina Marie Mueller
"This Michelin-starred Portuguese fine-dining restaurant in San José was deliberately designed to avoid seats near kitchens or bathrooms, yet staff acknowledge there are always one or two tables guests prefer less. Problem spots include a table where the dining room meets the bar and waiting area and another that sits in a pathway to the kitchen; depending on how busy it is, one or both may be kept off the reservation map for walk-ins, but hosts always show those tables to guests and get their explicit approval before seating them." - ByMaggie Hennessy
"The Michelin-starred San Jose restaurant has made a triumphant return after closing in December 2023; owners Carlos and Fernanda Carreira brought the restaurant back due to longtime customers wanting Adega returned." - Justine Jones
"I'm excited that Adega, a Michelin-starred restaurant, is returning to fine dining and reopening in its previous space on Friday, November 15; the Carreiras will bring it back to 1614 Alum Rock Avenue after having shifted that location earlier in 2024 to become a second, more casual Petiscos." - Dianne de Guzman